Oxford’s Adult Swimming Lesson Specialist
With over 17 years of dedicated, full-time experience in teaching adult swimming lessons in Oxford, Tim at Confident Swimming offers a unique and empowering pathway toward helping adults of all ages learn to swim, and improve their swimming ability.
Adult Swimming Lessons in Oxford… and Beyond…
Check out my FREE 6-lesson Foundations video course, designed to help you begin your swimming journey, wherever you are in the world
A Swim School Specialising in Helping Beginning and Nervous Adults Learn to Swim
A common problem with adult swimming education…
A majority of beginner swimming lessons focus almost exclusively on freestyle / front crawl, a competitive stroke that can be incredibly unhelpful for beginning adults, who usually just want to know how to feel comfortable, safe, and relaxed in water.
Too many fundamental skills and abilities are either skipped, overridden, or brushed over too quickly.
The Confident Swimming Way of learning to swim will guide you through a journey of complete and holistic development within the water, starting with:
① the FOUNDATION
We’ll start by developing the essential physical and psychological foundations for swimming success:
• breath awareness and control
• understanding buoyancy
• posture
• body-type awareness
• developing core stability
• returning to a standing position safely
• relaxation underwater, and
• developing the hand-water connection—the most important thing to learn in order to become safe in water (holding kickboards prevents this)
② Natural Swimming Pathway™
If you want to feel completely relaxed, in control, and free whenever and wherever you are in water, our Natural Swimming Pathway is the answer.
Our Natural Swimming Pathway will guide you through a completely different journey of learning to swim than what is conventionally taught, which has been developed and refined over 17 years of working with beginning adults.
We will focus instead on cultivating a deep understanding and connection with the water, and develop a relaxed, safe, and intuitive ‘freedom of movement’ in water (think, swimming out in the sea, swimming on holidays) rather than of simply rushing to learn the competitive strokes alone which—on their own—can be extremely narrow and restrictive for beginners.
When progressing through our Natural Swimming Pathway, you’ll develop the freedom to move with complete versatility and adaptability in water. It is a synergy of a range of abilities combined, which we’ll develop in a unique step-by-step sequence, covering:
• swimming with head-up
• swimming comfortably with head under water
• transitioning effortlessly between the two
• rotating between front ⇔ back in a variety of ways
• sculling on the back,
• elementary backstroke
• floating
• treading water with ease
• swimming underwater, and
• moving with complete control and freedom: in any direction, in any depth of water, for any length of time…
Learning the strokes alone will not make you safe or comfortable in deep water, nor will they help you just to feel relaxed and comfortable swimming out in the sea or in holiday swimming pools with your friends and family,
—but mastering this often ignored (yet essential) form of swimming will.
③ Stroke FUNDAMENTALS
Mastery of the strokes can only grow upon a foundation of feeling relaxed and in control in the water, otherwise we will forever be stuck saying “I just can’t get the breathing”.
The majority of adults who struggle to maintain their strokes—such as freestyle—for any reasonable distance, normally struggle not because of the breathing itself, but because their underlying stroke is lacking the hidden fundamentals of Coordination, Balance, and a foundation of Relaxation when swimming.
If we lack these fundamentals in the way we are swimming our stokes, we will never stand a chance of achieving an effective and sustainable breathing rhythm.
We will build (or rebuild) your strokes, with these ‘hidden fundamentals’ at the very core of your swimming experience
We can develop and refine your:
• Front Crawl stroke
•Breaststroke
• Butterfly
• Backstroke
• as well as learn advanced skills like flip turns
…using our unique ‘2-Layer’ and ‘2-Phase’ approach toward learning the strokes.
All of this lies ahead! I can’t wait to help you on your swimming journey! :)
Contact Confident Swimming
• Flexible bookings
(weekly or ad-hoc)
• One, dedicated teacher
• Always in the water with you
• Heated hotel pool & calm environment
Our Oxford Venue:
the voco Oxford Thames Hotel
Our one-to-one adult swimming lessons take place at the beautiful voco Oxford Thames Hotel pool. The venue offers:
• free parking and changing room facilities
• easy access by bus (via 3A from the City Centre)
• heated pool (of 1.2m in depth throughout)
• an ideal calm and relaxing environment for learners
• our own private swimming lane and learning area
The perfect venue for your new swimming journey…
FREEDOM in water is not about EFFORT….
It is about UNDERSTANDING…