Every Saturday morning in a British town, you’ll see the same scene: kids with chlorine-flat hair fighting over who gets…
Browsing: Swimming Skills
A line of parents carrying towels, a child wearing a swim cap who appears a little anxious, and an A-frame…
The slow lane is already full in a council-run recreation center off the A40 on a soggy Tuesday morning. Beside…
You can see exactly what’s changing at one point, usually on a Tuesday morning. By nine o’clock, the parking lot…
A mother watches her six-year-old kick across the shallow end from the viewing window of a Midlands recreation center on…
Around six in the morning, there’s a certain silence in an indoor pool. The low hum of the filtration system,…
You’ll notice something that wasn’t there ten years ago if you walk into any contemporary swim school on a Tuesday…
When you visit a public swimming pool in Britain on a morning, you notice a certain kind of silence. The…
It took me some time to identify the change that has occurred in the school-gate WhatsApp groups. In September of…
On a Saturday morning at a public pool, you can usually tell which kids have taken lessons and which haven’t.…