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Looking for some simple tools to help teach backstroke swimming stroke? Aimed at new, up-and-coming swimming teachers, this book takes the hard work out of thinking about what to include in your lessons. Each lesson plan contains a carefully selected list of relevant drills and activities. The assessment tools with each lesson plan make assessing your swimmers a quick and easy job, leaving you to focus on the individuals in your classes and fine-tune your practice as a successful swimming teacher.
Discover everything you need:
¿ the essential qualities that make a good swimming teacher
¿ the equipment needed to teach effective backstroke lessons
¿ a detailed breakdown of backstroke technique
¿ basic exercises that cover each part of the stroke
¿ lesson plans covering each stroke part, tailored to suit beginner, intermediate and advanced levels
¿ simple assessment tools for each lesson
Basic technique drills, step-by-step lesson plans and everything in-between. A swimming teacher's definitive guide to teaching
backstroke swimming stroke.
About the author
Mark Young is a well-established swimming instructor and creator of Swim-Teach.com, with over thirty years of experience teaching thousands of adults and children to swim. He has taken nervous, frightened children and adults who fear water and made them happy and confident swimmers. He has also turned many of those with average ability into advanced swimmers. His best-selling books include 'The Complete Beginners Guide to Swimming', 'The Swimming Strokes Book', 'How To Be a Swimming Teacher' and '101 Swimming Lesson Plans for Swimming Teachers', and they all draw on his experiences and countless successes to put together some simplistic methodical approaches to learning to swim and teaching swimming.
