Swimming Ideas Podast

Swimming Ideas, Jeffrey Napolski

Fun and effective strategies for swimming lessons, teams, and Aquatic Professionals. Listen to best practices and interviews with other members of the swimming community to get the most out of your swimming program. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/swimmingideas/support

  • 27 minutes 30 seconds
    SIP 102: Consistent Dedication to the Mundane


    • Consistent dedication to the mundane like streamline
    • Everyone has excellent streamline habit (all the time without thought). That to NOT do a streamline would make the swimmer physically uncomfortable.
    • A feeling that excellence is expected with allowance for failure, improvement, and progress.
    • Swimmers feel watched, celebrated, and encouraged to improve through feedback, attention, and coaching.

    See "Finding Deliberate Practice," "SIP 052: Swimming is a Habit," and "SIP 067: Deliberate Practice."

    Your framework and routine should reinforce the key things you want to accomplish with your swimmers.

    My number one goals:

    • Everyone has excellent streamline habit (all the time without thought). That to NOT do a streamline would make the swimmer physically uncomfortable.
    • A feeling that excellence is expected with allowance for failure, improvement, and progress.
    • Swimmers feel watched, celebrated, and encouraged to improve through feedback, attention, and coaching.

    Coach behavior on deck:

    If you see something to fix, you must say sometime.

    Avoid socializing and standing in one spot; unless resting.

    If you are expecting excellence, then excellence is expected OF you too.

    Enforce what you want done; non-enforcement = acceptable behavior.

    Know when to back off; you can still say something without demining or making someone feel bad.

    "You didn't streamline. Next time streamline."

    "You forgot the streamline." They nod and agree. "next time." You and they smile.

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    4 December 2023, 11:33 am
  • 26 minutes 50 seconds
    SIP 101: Routine for Developmental Swimming

    Establishing your habits, your consistency, and defining the framework that will lead to better swimmers faster.

    Why routine is important:
    SIP 052: Swimming is a habit (swimminglessonsideas.com)
    SIP 045: Importance of Routine (swimminglessonsideas.com)

    What is our routine and why do we do it?

    Warmup:

    100 IM K
    50 Swim
    2 x 25 Position 11
    Question of the Day
    What is the order of a 100 IM swim event?

    Learning Set:

    Two small groups that switch back and forth

    Group 1, Skill 1
    3 x SL on BK; stay underwater until you get to the flags if possible.
    Group 2, Skill 2
    3 x SL + 1 FLY stroke NO KICKING! Do the fly arms at the surface; okay to move yourself backwards

    Aerobic and Practice what you learned set:

    All together building on Question of the day and the small group practice.

    3 x {
    1 x 100 FREE with fins
    2 x 50, 25 BK, 25 2 strokes Fly then fly kick rest of 25, then 25 BK
    3 x SL + 5 FREE + 1 Breath
    1 Challenge
    }

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    13 November 2023, 12:02 pm
  • 57 minutes 52 seconds
    SIP 100: A plan, a formula, a guide
    This can be that guide for you. But… you need to know where you're going. What are you going to have as your plan? What is your formula for success going to be? How will you structure your swimming developmental program for fun and effective instruction. Fun. Children. Establishing habit. Enforcing excellence. You need to have a plan, a formula, and guide. Where are you going what are you intending to do? What are you intending and what are you pulling from? Define your minimum skill level. - Who will you accept? - What will your tryout be? - What will you be teaching, training, or working on in practices? Define your levels or grouping for developmental swimmers. - Will you be a single practice group or multiple? - What needs to be demonstrated before a swimmer moves out of your group? Define how you will structure your practices. - Which location - Lane size, distance, type - Maximum number of swimmers - How many coaches - What do coaches do in a practice? Define how you will write your practices. - What is important for you? - Yardage vs skill learning - How will you teach new skills in a way that allows failure, but doesn't promote bad habits? - Will there be fun baked in? ○ What do you define as fun? Define what your goals are for swimmers in your Developmental practices. - Fun? - Love of the sport - Drill work and skill focus - What does the coach want to do in the practice? - What do you want the swimmers to take from practices? Define competition - Can developmental swimmers go to swim meets? - Should they compete? - Starts? - Disqualifications. Write it down. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support
    31 October 2023, 12:12 am
  • 30 minutes 16 seconds
    SIP 099: Preparing for Developmental Season

    Document how to run an effective Developmental swim lesson program.


    What elements do you absolutely need to be effective?


    - A plan, formula, or guide

    - Routine

    - Consistent dedication to the mundane like streamline

    â—‹ Establishing habit

    â—‹ Instilling discipline (hard work and precise body control)

    - Balancing the hard work with fun; activity, activity, challenge

    - Earning respect

    - Talking with parents

    - Know your progressions


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    23 October 2023, 12:06 pm
  • 24 minutes 43 seconds
    SIP 098: Create Challenges and Games for Swim Lessons
    How to come up with a game or a challenge. - Think of a core skill. - Put a roadblock into teaching that skill or performing it well â—‹ Examples - Evaluate whether it is fun â—‹ Achievable â—‹ Simple â—‹ Too difficulty â—‹ Teaching the wrong skill â—‹ Relevant enough to the original skill Games: - Think of a core skill, but in more broad terms like: â—‹ Streamlines â—‹ Gliding â—‹ Movement â—‹ Buoyancy â—‹ Pushing on water - Create rules and goals - Goals are objectives: what the people do, ideally doing the skill you want them to work on, or a target by which the swimmers must do the skill you want to work on to succeed. - Rules are the roadblocks, or the conditions that lead to struggle and learning - Evaluate whether or not they're fun. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support
    16 October 2023, 11:07 am
  • 30 minutes 31 seconds
    SIP 097: Training Swim Instructors in person

    Today we look at the lesson coordinator handbook for finding an effective instruction segment on training swim instructors in person. We will do a brief overview of what's included in the workbook as well as any discussion on why certain elements are included and what the activity activity discussion format looks like.


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    2 October 2023, 11:39 am
  • 17 minutes 18 seconds
    SIP 096: Finding Motivation after a Summer burn

    With all of summers insane madness Are you ready to push through into fall and winter programming? That's right with all the rush, activity, intensity, and pure energy that comes with the summer months where do you find the motivation to continue working on aquatic programming and hiring.?

     

    We're gonna take a look at how to set realistic and specific goals for yourself.

     

    Celebrate your achievements and reward yourself by for hitting specific milestones that you may have set in the spring

     

    Seek feedback and support from staff that may have left already, are still in high school and remaining in town, or veterans that have made a career with you. Seek also your peers and surrounding areas and find out how things went with them. Debrief with your team and any other members of the aquatic community that use your facilities.

     

    Set goals for trying new things and to improve your own experience like new courses, new training, or new opportunities.

     

    Take vacations!

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    23 September 2023, 10:07 pm
  • 34 minutes 19 seconds
    SIP 095: Repeatable Parent Tot Lesson Plan

    Why we have a single sheet for repeating parent tot classes.



    What we used to do:

    - Follow the lesson plans based on day.

    - Challenges

    â—‹ People missed classes

    â—‹ Parents have VERY drastically different abilities, interest, and involvement.

    â—‹ New instructors not as familiar.

    - Have to find which day, which lesson

    â—‹ Different ability levels and ages in the classes; why are we resetting for advanced people for the new?


    What we did:

    - Used the same lesson plan online using a TV on the deck

    - Safety and state certification removed the TV from the deck

    What we're going to do

    â—‹ Projector inside against a large white wall

    â—‹ Bluetooth music on QR code on the lesson plan

    Why the repeatable lesson plan works:

    - Establishes habit

    - Each activity is narrow and very deep; lots of opportunity to do it in different ways from beginner to master.

    - Songs still involved

    - Additional skills.


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    18 September 2023, 11:53 am
  • 20 minutes 18 seconds
    SIP 094: Lesson Plans & Swim Instructor Struggles

    We review the swim lessons plans found at www.swimminglessonsideas.com and see how our swim instructors use them including their success and struggles.

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    10 September 2023, 10:51 pm
  • 23 minutes 56 seconds
    SIP 093: Three weeks with COVID-19 group swimming lessons

    What has it been like? What is our procedure?

    How do we teach?

    Challenges:

    Getting swimmers moving.

    Handling difficult swimmers.

    Coaching and commands.

    Resilience of children and adaptability.

    Tools: Lesson plans and TV for website lessons.

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    25 October 2020, 10:25 pm
  • 22 minutes 25 seconds
    SIP 092: Are you comfortable teaching?

    What should you do if you are comfortable? What should you do it if you're not comfortable?

    Covid-19 and the coronavirus pandemic is real. We just saw this week that the president got infected and foolishly hosted events without face coverings that subsequently infected many other people at a White house event. I know. This is insane. Right?

    If the white house can't stay safe, how can we expect to remain safe while teaching swimming lessons?

    We live in a world that requires us to go to work. Aquatic professionals need to bring in revenue. We need to have people taking lessons, using the pool, and participating in our programs.

    How can we make ourselves feel safer?

    1. Set up a system.
    2. Wear face coverings the entire time you're coaching or teaching.
    3. Space participants apart with a good distance.
    4. Have regular airflow across the pool surface and expel it.
    5. Limit your exposure.
    6. Ask your staff what they're comfortable with.
    7. Screen your participants.
    8. Require parent involvement.
    9. Kick people out that don't follow your rules; be unapologetic about your own safety.
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    5 October 2020, 5:37 pm
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