Expert swim tips, water safety advice, and family-focused insights from New Zealand’s most trusted swim school.
At Hilton Brown Swimming, one of the things we love most about our job is seeing all the happy children and families. We LOVE seeing your smiling faces and being a part of good, healthy family memories. And more than that, we enjoy being a part of helping children learn to love swimming.
Swimming is a life skill and we want to not only teach your children to be safe in and around the water but also to have a great time.
While watching a school swimming competition the other day, I couldn’t help but be horrified by the yawning gap between the kids with good swimming technique and those without. It’s like comparing a tug boat with an America’s Cup racer – one pushes its way through the water with sheer force, the other glides through the water with minimal effort.
Do you remember your first day as a parent? Chances are, it wasn’t long before you realised your transformation into a jack-of-all-trades. From “Executive Nappy Changer” to chauffeur. But we bet you didn’t know that there was one more title to add to your CV: Chief Swimming Instructor.
The advice Hilton Brown gives any parent about starting swimming lessons is to “start young”. Under five is the best time to start learning, so that by age eight all the key components are in place – body position, head position, streamlining and breathing technique.
A black Labrador Retriever named Bear recently became a major hero when he saved a 14-month-old child from drowning. When the toddler fell into the family swimming pool, Bear leapt in and kept the child afloat until a parent came to the rescue.
