The Complete Guide To Simple Swimming: Everything You Need to Know from Your First Entry into the Pool to Swimming the Four Basic Strokes

by Mark Young

From terrified to terrific, 'Simple Swimming' is the book to help boost swimming ability. For the complete beginner, this book helps the terrified to understand and appreciate the water and for the established swimmer to adjust and correct the four basic swimming strokes. The 82 fully illustrated exercises contained in this book can help any beginner to learn and practice, and any swimmer to eliminate bad habits and fine tune their swimming. Mark Young is a well established swimming instructor with over twenty years experience of teaching thousands of adults and children to swim. He has taken nervous, frightened children and adults with a fear of water and made them happy and confident swimmers. He has also turned many of average ability into advanced swimmers. He has drawn on his experiences and countless successes to put together this simplistic methodical approach to swimming.

152 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2010

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Reviews

[Georgina Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clear instructions and well thought out drills.

It's taken me a month, but I've gone from a totally unconfident swimmer who panicked if I got water up my nose and could only really swim breast stroke with my head out of the water, to being able to swim passable breast stroke, front crawl and back crawl without float assistance or nose clips.

Highly recommended if you lack confidence in the water and need direction to improve your skills.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can swim but my technique is rubbish. This book has helped me to brush up on the basics of technique, just need to practice it now.