Leopold Swim School Blog

At Leopold Swim School the first stroke we teach is doggy paddle. Why? So your child can save themselves in an emergency such as falling out of a boat or into a pool, spa, river, lake, fish pond or waterway. Doggy...

When winter arrives some children say goodbye to their swim instructors to instead begin other sports or music lessons. Parents don’t think twice about pulling their child out of swimming lessons to start new activity, yet when summer rolls around they...

Learning to swim doesn’t just happen during your child’s swim school lessons. If your child can already float on their back and torpedo on their front, there are many things you can do to help your child advance their swimming...

We get asked continuously if our pool water is salt water. The reason for this is because when you walk into our swim school there isn’t that strong chlorine smell. In actual fact, our water is chlorinated. However, as we...

No measure can ever guarantee that children are safe in, on and around water. It is only human for adults to sometimes lapse in their supervision of children in the home or while out and about. Children can and do...

There’s a common perception out there that effective squad training can only be done in a large-length pool – wrong! It’s not the length that matters, it the technique being taught. You can have a squad training in an Olympic-sized...