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Swim school success explores strategies that can help swim schools acquire more customers, improve retention rates and grow revenue.
Author Lane Harrison shares his proven ideas from over 10 years in the Aquatic and Recreation industry as a business owner, consultant, and podcast host.
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Scuba Exceptional may be the fifth in Simon Pridmore's Scuba series but it is the true follow up to the first book in the series Scuba Confidential.
Scuba Exceptional reflects the same philosophy of safe diving through the acquisition of knowledge and skills. The themes are new, there are some wonderful and extremely useful new cautionary tales and the focus this time is more on issues that face experienced divers. For example, there is more technical...
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Si aún no buceas y estás pensando en aprender, Bases de buceo - Iníciate correctamente en el buceo es tu libro. Te lleva desde el momento en que surge la idea de que quizás te gustaría probar el buceo hasta que ya has realizado unas 20 inmersiones. No se trata de un guía de aprendizaje estándar de buceo. Es muy diferente. La finalidad de Bases de buceo no es enseñarte a bucear. Eso lo hará un instructor de buceo. Pero este libro te facilitará...
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Des mers et des océans aux piscines chlorées en passant par les thermes antiques, la nage fait partie de l'histoire et de la culture de l'humanité dans toutes ses dimensions!
Voici probablement le plus beau livre écrit sur la nage, les plongeurs et les nageurs. Paru en 1992, Héros et Nageurs a d'emblée été salué comme tel par la critique anglaise et américaine. Panorama complet de la discipline, il entrelace tout à la fois l'histoire,...
86) Swim the fly
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7 audio discs (7 hr., 36 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time--quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date. But catching a girl in the buff starts to look easy compared to Matt's other summertime aspiration: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) as a way...
87) Swim team
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245 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees - until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule: the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta - an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain - is willing to help. --
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26 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm
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Abigail dreads swimming lessons. Every time she dives into the pool, she makes a big splash, and all the girls in her class shout: Abigail's a whale! Abigail can see that she is larger than the other girls. She feels huge, heavy, and out of place. Abigail's swimming teacher takes her aside and points out: we can change how we see ourselves.
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At once inspiring, hilarious, and honest, the new book from Alexandra Heminsley chronicles her endeavor to tackle a whole new element, and the ensuing challenges and joys of open water swimming. "It's a meditative act," they said. But it was far from meditative for Alexandra Heminsley when yet another wave slammed into her face. It was survival. When she laced up her shoes in Running Like a Girl, all she had to do to become a runner was to get out...
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This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to playing water polo. Primarily designed for the beginner, it gives instructions on preparatory work, rules and strategy, as well as providing some historical information on the development of the game. This profusely illustrated guide is ideal for those with little previous experiences and is not to be missed by collectors of vintage sporting literature. Contents include: "Introduction," "Evolution...
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Sometimes coaching competitive swimming can be as easy as writing a set on a whiteboard and letting your swimmers push off the wall at the right time doing the correct stroke or drill. But that is boring.
That isn't really coaching.
Developmental swimming establishes habit, tone, and technique.
We are the first contact many young people have to the sport of swimming. We need to provide a stimulating, fun, encouraging and exciting experience to...
92) The guardian
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1 videodisc (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An aging United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Just prior to this same mission his wife announces that she cannot take anymore. This leaves him an emotional wreck. His commander gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position and moves into the school. Once there he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum...
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viii, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children, mostly of Japanese ancestry, and in three short years transformed them into Olympic champions.
96) Jabari salta
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Es difícil reunir el valor para dar un gran e importante salto, pero Jabari está casi absolutamente listo para dar un gran salto.
Working up the courage to take a big, important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to make a giant splash.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
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Inspired by a true story, when Queen Victoria is unable to go swimming without her subjects glimpsing her in a swimming suit, her husband, Prince Albert, comes up with an innovative solution so his wife can indulge in the healthy exercise.
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Michael Phelps is an American sports hero, perhaps the greatest Olympic athlete the world has ever known. His unprecedented eight gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics have made him a superstar. But his journey to Olympic immortality is every bit as compelling as his achievements in the pool. From learning to cope with ADHD to the story of how Phelps became the greatest swimmer ever, Phelps' tale is told in full detail here for the first time.
The...
100) Man o' war
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320 pages ; 22 cm
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On a field trip to SeaPlanet, seventeen-year-old Arab-American high school swimmer River McIntyre has a chance encounter with Indy, a happy, healthy queer person, which sets off a wrenching journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender dysphoria, through layers of coming out, affirmation surgery, and true love.
River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet, an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of...
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