Miracle Swimming Blog

Dear Miracle Swimming Graduates, Prospective Miracle Swimming Students, and Swimming Professionals,

Thanks to your urging, we now have a place where you can connect and communicate. Often prospective students want to talk to MSI students. Instructors want to know what's different about MSI. Students want to share their enthusiasm or ask a question. May each person's questions be answered! I'll monitor the blog as often as I can.

What's new besides the blog?



We were tickled that MSI graduate and now spotter Greg Wellons had us dyed into his body, above. He unveiled this during his freestyle class in Moraga, CA in July. Greg, how's your freestyle going? How about the other 7 of you in class: Angel, Conchita, Cristina, Jan, June, Robert, and Susan?

Our online and blended online/hands-on instructor trainings went live September 1! We hope you'll write a letter or an email to a local swimming instructor and invite them to take this training program. People all over the world ask if Miracle Swimming is available in their town. Our goal is to spread it there.

The Conquer Fear Instructor Training is the brainchild of a partnership formed between MSI and none other than the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Our shared goal is to put an end to preventable drowning. This is something probably only the MSI teaching can do and guarantee: because though other instructional agencies have great success teaching swimming to a large part of the population--those who are almost ready to learn strokes--our students tell us that the only method that works for them is MSI's. We can teach the huge population of people who are afraid or uncomfortable in water: those who need to learn how the water works and how to be in control first.

ISHOF, established in 1967, is a non-profit organization, swimming museum and library that selects and honors the cream of the crop in swimming's competitive sports each year. In addition, they host national competitions at the Hall of Fame pools. When you're in Fort Lauderdale, pay them a visit. You can even become a member and support swimming!

When you think about swimming, stop by our blog and see what's surfaced. We look forward to "seeing" you. We'll be learning about blogs and blogging as we go. To make a comment, look directly above my greeting and click on Add Comment.

Four Americans, one instructor in Thailand and two in the Philippines are the first to take advantage of our new online/hands-on instructor trainings to teach Miracle Swimming to students anywhere. There are 4 new trainings to choose from: online only, online plus 2 days hands-on at a Beginning class, or online plus 6 or 11 days at a Beginning and Next Step class. The online training went live September 1. The first hands-on training in Palm Springs November 2-8 is full, with 5 instructors. All of them have given us great quotes to pass on to prospective new instructors.
Can't wait to spread this teaching technology worldwide!

MSI Speaks in Puerto Rico
In July, Puerto Rico’s Swimming Federation president (Jesse Vassallo, if you remember him from swimming fame in the 70's) invited us to present a talk at their national swimming instructors’ training. Melon was teaching Freestyle in California and couldn’t go. Guess who did? Susan Mueller, MSI Graduate, 2004 and TSI Instructor Graduate, 2006. Susan lives in Tampa, Florida and being Cuban, speaks Spanish. She did a great job and represented us well, delivering a talk Melon gave at the National Recreation and Parks Association’s Aquatics meeting in March. Thank you, Susan! This is the the second culture MSI has stepped into. 270 countries and territories to go!

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The Importance of Feeling

If you ever tried to float or swim before you were comfortable in the water, it may have gone something like this.

You had a picture in your mind of what you were supposed to look like.

You had an expectation of what it might feel like and hoped it wouldn't be too painful or scary.

If someone was with you, you might have felt their expectation that you'd try it.

You readied to go into your float or stroke from the location of your head: comparing to the picture in your mind, hoping nothing would go wrong before you came back up for air, and anticipating what was coming.

True?

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