Adult Swimming Lessons

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We provide adult swimming lessons for people of all ages and all abilities at our dedicated training pool in Ballylickey, West Cork.

It’s never too late to begin learning to swim, and lots of our learners find that their new swimming and water safety skills are a fantastic way of helping them to enjoy the water with their children and grandchildren.

Criteria

Generally a person should be 16 or over to enrol for adult classes.

Our standard adult classes have

A beginner’s group, an improvers group and a deep end group. Each group is small (4-6 usually) and has its own instructor. We like to keep the groups small so that everyone gets plenty of attention and can make optimum progress. All the teachers are well-trained and experienced in working with adults.

We run adult’s classes as a 7 week course. There are 3 time table options: Tuesdays at 2:45pm, Tuesdays at 7:15pm and Thursdays at 7:15pm.

Following are the criteria for adult swimming abilities, to guide placement in the appropriate class. Please use these guidelines when registering or determining your level.

Beginners

Adults should consider joining the Beginners class if any of the following apply:

  • Nervous of water

  • Cannot submerge face

  • Cannot swim or float on front or back

  • Cannot yet stand up comfortably in either position

  • Stroke development is still in the early development stage

Improvers

Those comfortable swimming on their front and back, and who are developing the following strokes, should consider the Improvers class:

  • Front crawl

  • Breaststroke

  • Inverted breaststroke

  • Back crawl

However, if you cannot yet tread water, the Improvers class is suitable as well.

Deep End

This class is for swimmers who are building comfort and safety in deep water. The focus at this stage is on refining stroke technique in:

  • Breaststroke

  • Front crawl

  • Inverted breaststroke

  • Back crawl

Participants may also be working on learning sidestroke, diving, and other aquatic skills. Comfort in deep water and ongoing stroke refinement are the main goals.

Please email us on info@thewaterschool.ie if you would like to join our adult classes. Please let us know in the email if you are a beginner, improver or deep ender and if you have any health issues that we need to be aware of.

Master Classes

We also run ‘Master classes’ for good experienced adult swimmers. In these classes adults have the opportunity to swim full lengths with an instructor available for advice on perfecting techniques, etc. This class is popular with people who are training for triathlons or those who like to get fit by swimming. Masters is on Thursday evenings at 8:10pm and costs 10 euros per session. Please email us on info@thewaterschool.ie if you would like to book a session.

We also run water safety classes From time to time for adults.