Wish You Were a Fish
Swim Lessons
Welcome to Wish You Were A Fish Swim Lessons!
I'm glad you're here! If you or someone you know would like to learn how to swim or improve the skills you already have, you've come to the right place.
My desire is to help people of all ages become aware of water safety and learn to swim so that they might enjoy being in and around the water and be safe while doing so!
Swimming, swimming in the swimming hole
When days are hot, when days are cold in the swimming hole
Sidestroke, backstroke, fancy diving too
Oh don't you wish you were a fish with nothing else to do!
Proud Provider of American Red Cross Aquatics Training!
Water Safety Education included in all lessons!
Lesson Details
Child and Adult Lessons
Private Lessons = $160 (1 child or adult)
Semi-Private Lessons = $120 (2-4 children or adults)
Lessons are either 6 lessons for 40 minutes or 8 lessons for 30 minutes.
Parent & Me Classes
Private = $80 per family
Semi-Private = $50 (2-5 families)
4 classes, each lasting 30 minutes
Lessons are available Monday through Friday only.
Lessons after 5pm may cost extra.
Your pool or mine. My pool is located in Buena Park.
If lessons are conducted at your pool, additional fees may be applied for travel expenses. If your home is over 10 miles from my pool, then $1 for every 5 miles will be charged.
Skill Levels
Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills
Students learn to feel comfortable in the water.
Level 1 participants learn to:
•Enter and exit water safely.
•Submerge mouth, nose and eyes.
•Exhale underwater through mouth and nose.
•Open eyes underwater, pick up submerged object.
•Change direction while walking or paddling.
•Roll over from front to back and back to front with support.
•Explore floating on front and back with support.
•Explore swimming on front and back using arm and leg actions with support.
•Use a life jacket.
Children taking Level 1 will receive a Raffy Learns to Swim full-color booklet that reinforces learning and provides parents with additional information about their childs progress.
Level 2: Fundamental Aquatic Skills
Students achieve success with fundamental skills.
Level 2 participants learn to
•Enter water by stepping or jumping from the side.
•Exit water safely using ladder or side.
•Submerge entire head.
•Blow bubbles submerging head in a rhythmic pattern (bobbing).
•Open eyes underwater, pick up a submerged object in shallow water.
•Float on front and back.
•Perform front and back glide.
•Change direction of travel paddling on front or back.
•Roll over from front to back, back to front.
•Tread water using arm and leg motions (chest-deep water).
•Swim on front, back, and side using combined arm and leg actions.
•Move in the water while wearing a life jacket.
Children taking Level 2 will receive a Raffy Learns to Swim full-color booklet that reinforces learning and provides parents with additional information about their childs progress.
Level 3: Stroke Development
Students will build on the skills learned in Level 2 through additional guided practice.
Level 3 participants learn to
•Jump into deep water from the side.
•Dive from kneeling or standing position.
•Submerge and retrieve an object in chest deep water.
•Bob with the head fully submerged.
•Rotary breathing in horizontal position.
•Perform front and back glide using two different kicks.
•Float on front and back in deep water.
•Change from horizontal to vertical position on front and back.
•Tread water using hand and leg movements.
•Perform front and back crawl.
•Butterflykick and body motion.
•Perform the HELP and Huddle position.
Children taking Level 3 will receive a Waddles in the Deep full-color booklet that reinforces class instruction to help swimmers develop confidence in their strokes and improve other aquatic skills.
Level 4: Stroke Improvement
Students Develop confidence in the skills learned and improve other aquatic skills.
Level 4 participants learn to
•Perform a dive from a standing or stride position.
•Swim underwater.
•Perform feet-first surface dive.
•Perform open turns on front and back.
•Tread water using sculling arm motions and with different kicks.
•Perform the following:
•Front and back crawl
•Breaststroke
•Butterfly
•Elementary backstroke
•Swim on side using scissors-like kick.
•Perform compact jump into water from a height while wearing a life jacket.
Children taking Level 4 will receive a Waddles in the Deep full-color booklet that reinforces class instruction to help swimmers develop confidence in their strokes and improve other aquatic skills.
Level 5: Stroke Refinement
Students will improve coordination and refinement of strokes.
Level 5 participants learn to perform the following:
•Standing dive
•Shallow dive, glide two body lengths and begin any front stroke
•Tuck surface dive
•Pike surface dive
•Front flip turn
•Backstroke flip turn
•Sidestroke
•Tread water with two different kicks
•Learn survival swimming
Level 6: Swimming and Skill Proficiency
Students will refine their strokes so they swim with ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances. Level 6 is designed with menu options that each focus on preparing students to participate in more advanced courses, including the Water Safety Instructor and Lifeguard Training courses.
These options include:
• Personal Water Safety
• Fundamentals of Diving
• Lifeguard Readiness
• Fitness Swimmer
About Me
I grew up in the water or at least it feels like it. As long as it was warm enough out and I had access to a pool, I was in it! When I was 15, I became a certified lifeguard and guarded during the summers. When I went to college, I continued to lifeguard year round. I also became a Water Safety Instructor and began to teach swim lessons to children and adults. I loved every minute of it. I graduated with my bachelors and then my masters degree and started my career, leaving the joy of swim lessons behind. I am now married (6 years) and have two sons whom I get to stay home with. So I decided it was time to return to doing what I love, teaching people of all ages how to swim. Come join me. We'll have a great time.
Don't you wish you were a fish with nothing else to do? I sure do!
-- Janine
Wish You Were A Fish
Buena Park, CA
714.336.5532
wishyouwereafish_gmail.com