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Hi does any one know of any were in blackburn or surrounding areas that teaches kids swimming
Ive rang daisy feild. and shad any there full at the moment?????
any ideas :thankya:

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have you tried waves as i know they use to do private swimming lessons there.

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We use Johnson's Swimming School on Blackburn Road, Darwen.

Tel no 01254 704488

It is a small family business. The pool is 10m long and all one depth, no deep end. Very good for beginners who need to build their confidence up. :)

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I know its not blackburn - I have known Tash for years

Info taken from Recognised Starfish Swim Schools

http://www.starfishswimming.org/imag...rcare_logo.gifAquatone Swimming SchoolPool(s):Mill Street, Great Harwood, BB6 7NNTelephone:01254 887272 / 07803 694090Email:n/aContact:Natasha Newell

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Three years ago I paid up front for a course at Hyndburn Sports Centre.
The lessons were daytime and straight after school swimming, so the pool reeked of chlorine after they all had a pee in it.
There were 4 of us beginners being taught at the same time by one instructor.
I had to give up after wrenching a shoulder muscle on the 3rd lesson, so I still can't swim, but not tempted to go back there again.

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I've heard that Hyndburn Sports Centre's swimming lessons aren't much cop for children or adults, Margaret.

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Hyndburn Sports centre as a whole leaves a lot to be desired :rolleyes:

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yeh me too.:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Yeh, took my lad to Johnsons when the father was running it, think the son there now and found them more than acceptable.

Course, depends how much money you are prepared to spend Howarth; the private gyms e.g. Dunk, JJB, Next Generation run excellent classes for youngsters, but obviously do cost.

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hi howarth,my kids had to go on a waiting list for 6 months for swimming lessons, its pretty much the same everywhere, when you do get a place you automatically keep your place until you want to leave, thats why there is a lack of places availible, i know its a pain but if you can accept anytime anyday then the waiting time reduces

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hi yes natasha newells school of swimming, she taught my eldess son years ago at quegs privat school in blackburn........

many thanks to all of you for your help xx :thankya:

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thats good then you will know her style of teaching... she tailors it to each individual but can be quite tough... but I believe the kids definately benefit

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Our little `un goes to the `BIG FISH SWIM SCHOOL` which is down at the Dunkenhalgh leisure club, can highly recommend it, our daughter was swimming without her bands within 12 weeks. have`nt got the number on me but i can get it if you want.:D:D

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Big Fish Swim Skool is excellent. Check out their website www.bigfishswimskool.co.uk They have lessons at the Dunkenhalgh, QEGS and the Clarion. Lessons are really small and teachers are excellent and professional. Janine Willacy runs it, her mobile is 0774 302 9303

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Although expensive.............! and long terms to be paid up front, Gt Harwood do them in smaller terms and cost a lot less.

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Any relation.......?:rolleyes:

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Yes they are more expensive but I think they are worth it and better quality, have you seen the cost of Waterbabies? £10.25 per lesson!

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[quote=Mrs Jones;627379]Yes they are more expensive but I think they are worth it and better qualityquote]

Depends on you`re financial situation and what you expect for you`re money i suppose......:rolleyes:

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The problem is that the terms are to long, most places only do 6 week blocks, you pay up front with an extra bit on top to pay for you`re towel and use of the changing rooms at the Dunk, well i`d let mine get changed poolside and use our own towel and the Dunk could whistle for its pice of the pie........ i ain`t Rockerfella.....

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I am afraid that I don't follow this thread.
When I was a youngster many moons ago we were involved in swimming gala's and competitive swimming.
I was taught to swim at Freckleton Street in Blackburn, Belper Street also in Blackburn and when we moved to Church at Accrington Swimming Baths.
I think swimming tuition should be free as it was in my day and if a good prospect....and there are many should be offered free lessons to progress.
Swimming was the only discipline I excelled in....I played Water Polo for a team of combined services whilst in the Army and enjoyed every encounter be it Chinese, Australian or New Zealanders who challenged.
I think swimming is then corner stone of:?
Come on ....get real........what are your thought's

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Whatever happened to parents taking their kids to the local baths and teaching them to swim?

No that isn’t quite right – giving them the confidence to do what they can do naturally is closer to the mark.

99.9% of people can swim. All they need is the confidence to do it.

All mammals can swim when the need arises. They just do it without any tuition. Tigers are excellent swimmers and even elephants can swim when they have to. So what’s the big deal with humans?

Give your kids water confidence at bath time. Let them learn that having their faces splashed isn’t going to kill them. Let them learn that their eyes won’t fall out or they will go blind if they open them under water. Let them learn that they won’t die if they hold their breath under water.

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I do but what harm is the extra lessons to improve their techniques going to do....?

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This is not true jambutty when i took my GOLD A.S.A part of the test was to go through a hoop on either side of the deep end which was 9ft deep
you had to do this 10 times so it meant swimming round the pool 10 times and each time diving down to the hoop on each side so that's 20 times in all you had to keep your eyes open so you could see where the hoop was.
After i finished i got out my eyes where all red and sore with all the chlorine and by the time i was ready to go back to school i could not see a thing it was 6 hours before i got my sight back so yes you can go blind swimming.
and yes i did pass and went on to take and get my RLSS Bronze but the school would not let me go any further as they said they don't consider swimming as a sport :confused::D

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Like any sport, to get really good at it you need expert tuition, so there is no harm in that.

But I was referring to teaching kids to swim and giving them ‘water confidence’ in the first instance.

Newly born kids can swim, know how to hold their breath and open their eyes under water. Somehow during the first few years of life this ‘water confidence’ is forgotten.

There are millions of kids in the third world, who live near water, can swim and no one taught them.

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But by then you had learned ‘water confidence’.

I think that you should qualify your statement to read; “so yes you can go blind swimming - after spending a long time in chlorinated water.” It’s the chlorine that makes your eyes sore not the water. You can get the same effect in sea water.

We kids spent more time diving for pennies or a ‘brick’ than actually swimming length after length. And yes our eyes became red and sore. I never lost my sight though. But I had the added effect of uncontrollable itching of my nose.

Haven’t swimming baths stopped using chlorine and use ozone aerated water instead?

My school in the fifties sent each class to the baths once a week. We were taken by corporation bus to the baths and brought back. Those who couldn’t swim were taught to do so and those who could practiced to get better at it. And it included diving from a diving board at 6 feet or so high.

There was a ‘width’ certificate, one for a length, one for ten lengths, quarter, half and mile. (1 Mile = 71 lengths at Accy baths) We were encouraged to get the Bronze and Life Saving. The really good swimmers went on for the Silver and Gold. All during school time.

We were also taken by corporation bus to King George’s Playing Fields to play football or cricket.

Like all the others of my era, my school had an annual school inter house gala and also an inter school gala. There was also the inter house school sports day and inter school sports day. No one blubbed when they came last either and no one took the pith out of them either.

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No you said" you cant go blind opening your eyes under water" i say yes you can

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You won't get him to admit he is wrong Mick, it would be easier just banning him for arguing with a mod :D:D:D

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I did indeed but where did I mention chlorinated water?

Your argument is based on chlorinated water and I agree that the chlorine does make your eyes sore after a while. If you say you were blind for a few hours then you were blind but not from the water – it was the chlorine in the water.

It is rather sad when even an Administrator can’t read what has been written and puts his own spin on what was. It’s no wonder that some other members follow suit.

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sorry but i think you will find its you thats trying to turn things round

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I think Jambutty just argues for something to do.....

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My statement was “Let them learn that their eyes won’t fall out or they will go blind if they open them under water.” There is no mention of chlorine or even a hint of chlorine or indeed a mention of swimming baths.

You brought in the chlorine point and I have agreed with you that in chlorinated water, after lengthy immersion, the eyes do get sore and in your quoted case blinded you for a while.

So where’s the ‘turning around’?

Oh! I get it! You’ve jumped on the “let’s try and prove jambutty wrong bandwagon”. And from an Administrator too!

Disgraceful! Absolutely disgraceful!

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So just where do the children learn to swim or go underwater with there eyes open ?
in a tin bath in front of the fire ? i dout it they go to the swimming baths.

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JB its no wonder you think everyones against you is it? nothing like making enemies with everything you say

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I taught my kids to be comfortable in water in the bath at home and the kitchen sink. We had got past the tin bath in front of the fire years ago.

With the kitchen sink full of lukewarm water the child took a deep breath and held it for as long as she wanted to. After several ‘breath holds’ she knew that she would not die if she wasn’t actually breathing. The next step was to dunk her face into the water for as long as she felt comfortable. It didn’t take very long before she was trying to stay underwater for longer and longer. I would time her immersion and tell her the result. Then she was encouraged to open her eyes under water and after a tentative start she did so quite happily. I knew that she had opened her eyes because as she dunked her face into the water with her eyes tightly shut, I would slip a coin, or a key or something into the water and she would tell me what she saw.

At bath time she was shown that she would float on her back and on her front with her face in the water. In other words she soon realised that she would not sink to the bottom and drown. With the bath some five feet long and a child barely two feet tall there is room for a couple of kicks to ‘swim’ its length.

With this new found confidence of being in water it took just one session in the local baths to teach her to swim, albeit it on her back. The next session was breaststroke and then the crawl. After that it was swimming the width and then the length and then diving in off the side. Later it was diving from the diving board.

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Soooooooooooooo where do people recommend for private swimming lessons then......?:rolleyes::D

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I remember having a bath in the sink..............:D

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The wife went mad...............:eek:

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I had my swimming lessons at padiham pool and the instructor was called tommy, then again that was 30 yrs ago so i don`t know if he`s still going...........:rolleyes:

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can i just say, i dont think Howarth needs swimming lessons for the lads anymore :)

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If you look back you will note that it wasn’t me who took this thread off topic. It never is but somehow I seem to get blamed.

It was Royboy39 when part way through his post he launched into his own personal experience of playing water polo in the army. What that has to do with learning to swim is beyond me.

Then Administrator mick launched into his school swimming experiences and made a point of contradicting what I had stated by introducing chlorine.

Thereafter my posts were in response to other posts.

But hey, why let the reality spoil an attempt blame me. It happens all the time.

And that will be my last word in this thread. Not only will I not respond, I’m not even going to bother reading any further infantile comments.

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There is also a private pool in rosegrove that does lessons but i can`t think of its name.......

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The one at Rosegrove is called Swimsafe and it's really good but you pay for it (was about £11.50 a lesson when my son finished about a year ago). Very small class sizes, small pool and very strict instructor but some of the kids are swimming within weeks of joining. My son is now an excellent swimmer so it was well worth the cost.

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My parents have an indoor pool, and when my dad retired he looked into the possibility of giving private swimming lessons.

There was so much red tape, that it really wasn't worth the bother.

Still, if we see a plaster floating in the water now, we at least know whose it is.:D