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Treading Water - How To Do It, Plus Lesson Plans To Download and Print
Can you tread water? How often does it feature in your lessons? Treading water is an important skill to learn for many reasons. Also this week, lesson plans that you can actually download and print out.
Hi, Mark here. I hope you've had a great week.
This week, we are talking treading water and I give you a free printable download that explains everything you need to know.
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Give Your Confidence A Boost - Learn How To Tread Water.
Treading water is an important skill to learn. First off, it is an essential part of water safety and personal survival. On top of that, it boosts confidence, particularly when swimming in deep water. Anything that boosts confidence can only be good!
Check out my printable download for the finer details about how to tread water and how to teach treading water by clicking here or the link below.
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That's it for this week. Take care and stay safe.
Happy swimming!
Cheers
Mark
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I've been teaching swimming for over 30 years and I built Swim Teach so that I can share all my knowledge, wisdom and experience from the thousands of swimming lessons I have had the pleasure of teaching. Take a look back through my previous newsletters and see what you missed.
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