**Adult Learn-to-Swim Month – How to Teach Basic Skills**

April is Adult Learn-to-Swim month and we’re excited!  Teaching someone to swim is one of the most gratifying things you can do as a coach, and it’s guaranteed that you’ll learn more than your students.  Join us this week for tips on how to teach skills that are second nature to most swimmers, but are a mysterious new language to the beginner.

**Monday**

**Early Concepts & Skills: Inhale through Mouth Exhale through Nose**

Nothing is more basic than getting comfortable with inhaling and exhaling.  Get swimmers comfortable with inhaling through the mouth…exhaling through the nose.

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2971-inhale-through-mouth-exhale-through-nose>

**Tuesday**

**Early Concepts & Skills: Stand Up from a Front Float**

Regaining your feet is one of those skills that experienced swimmers take for granted.  For new swimmers, it can be a baffling series of complex moves accompanied by a nose-full of water.  Here’s how to teach it!

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2968-stand-up-from-a-front-float>

**Wednesday**

**Early Concepts & Skills: Stand Up from a Back Float**

Regaining your feet from a back float is not an intuitive move for new swimmers!  Here’s how to teach them to stand up gracefully, quickly, and without getting water up the nose.  “Knees up…stand up.”

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2969-stand-up-from-a-back-float>

**Thursday**

**Early Concepts & Skills: Scull and Tread**

Learning to scull and tread will help keep new swimmers safer in the water.  Here’s how to introduce these skills.

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2975-scull-and-tread>

**Friday**

**Early Concepts & Skills:  Vertical Kick**

An effective flutter kick is a foundational skill.  To teach it more effectively, have new swimmers put on fins and do vertical kick.  They’ll get plenty of air, and you can give instructions and fix problems quickly and in real time.

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2974-vertical-kick>

**Saturday**

**Early Concepts & Skills:  Streamline Jumps**

This drill teaching many key skills:  rhythmic breathing, core control, streamline, two-footed pushoffs, and the importance of good bodyline.

<https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2973-streamline-jumps>

**Sunday**

**Early Concepts & Skills:  Pushout with a Twist**

Most new swimmers have no clue of how to exit the pool.  Help make their exits quick and graceful by pushing out with a twist.

[https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2966-pushout-with-a-twist\\](https://www.goswim.tv/lessons/2966-pushout-with-a-twist%5C)


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April 7, 2025 - Adult Learn-to-Swim Month