Learning freestyle is not learning to swim.
Learning to swim is becoming safe in deep water. Everyone needs to be safe in deep water.

Strokes are the efficient way to swim. But before you become efficient, you will be inefficient. While we’re first learning, just about everybody is inefficient. The good news is: “inefficient” is enough to be safe. Water safety for the whole world is far simpler and quicker to teach than has been previously thought. We don’t need to ...

What Is Personal Water Safety?

Swimming Pros,

If you teach only kids to swim as opposed to teaching only adults as we do (virtually), you may not know that learning freestyle and learning to swim are two different things.

Freestyle is a stroke. Learning to swim is learning personal water safety in deep water.

It only makes sense to be sure people are safe in the water before you try to teach them anything. Like strokes!

Why do you teach strokes in swimming ...