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What is important to know is that regardless of your status (volunteer, elite athlete, licensed, manager...), there is a training program for you; the most important thing is to choose the one that best suits your profile and ambitions.

• 1 - The Swimming Sports Instructor This professional certification was created by the French Swimming Federation. Once you hold the Swimming Sports Instructor certificate, you can be legally employed and remunerated. You can perform the following tasks in all disciplines:

• Supervise the French Swimming School in your structure.

• Train.

• Ensure the safety of practice and practitioners.

• 2- Federal training programs These are for those who want to engage in the supervision, teaching, and training of swimming, with a focus on excellence and quality, and in a voluntary capacity:

• Club Assistant

• Federal Certificate 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th degree.

• Federal Certificate of Educator Swim Fitness Health

• Federal Certificate of Educator Swim Fitness Wellness

• 3 - State Professional Training Unlike Federal Certificates that supervise the exercise of a voluntary activity, State Professional Training programs issue diplomas allowing for remunerated work. Possessing a state professional diploma is therefore mandatory for any educator who supervises, animates, teaches, or trains for remuneration:

• Professional Certificate of Youth, Popular Education, and Sports - Aquatic Activities and Swimming (BPJEPS AAN).

• State Diploma of Youth, Popular Education and Sports - Sports Improvement (specializing in swimming) (DEJEPS).

• Higher State Diploma of Youth, Popular Education and Sports - Sports Performance (specializing in swimming) (DESJEPS)

• 4 - Training for Elite Athletes INFAN supports Elite Athletes in their professional retraining project by allowing them to access training for the 5th degree federal certificate. This training is designed in a "made-to-measure" logic, specifically adapted to the needs of athletes by seeking to reconcile their schedules between training, competitions, and availability for training:

• The BF5 reserved for Elite Athletes

To be fully comprehensive on this subject of available training and diplomas, it is important to know that depending on your status (volunteer, employee, job seeker, elite athlete...), several possibilities for financing training may be mobilized. Inquire, because depending on whether you are an employee, an elite athlete, a volunteer educator within a club affiliated with the FFN, or a job seeker, the financing proposals are significantly different and more or less interesting.

A swimming teacher is now called a sports educator of aquatic activities and swimming. This tends to expand their activity.

Simply put, their role is to supervise the activities that take place in or around pools. This can range from teaching swimming for beginners, to giving more or less advanced swimming lessons depending on the level of students, to programming and organizing training sessions for clubs and their members of all levels.

The swimming teacher is also there to ensure the safety of swimmers. In addition, they check that the equipment is in good condition and safe (this includes water quality, the quality of equipment such as kickboards, lane lines, etc.). The swimming teacher teaches their students basic or advanced techniques (depending on the level of the practitioners), so that they feel comfortable with swimming.

Although they may sometimes specialize in a particular type of swimming, it is generally considered that the swimming teacher teaches the 4 main styles (which we listed earlier in this content), as well as dives, turns, and immersion (the basics of apnea, i.e. having the head and body underwater).

As such, they work with different levels, from highly experienced high-level athletes to novices who can barely paddle.

The swimming teacher must possess certain qualities, including listening skills, composure, good physical health, responsiveness, and patience; they may be required to intervene in the water if someone is in trouble.

As for where they can work, it is usually in a municipal swimming pool, whether covered or not, or in a fitness or rehabilitation center.

It is possible to find some rare teachers who work as self-employed, but this is much less common.

As for beaches (note that additional specific training and annual retraining are required!!!), schedules can vary: evenings, weekends, or during vacations.

There is no age limit to learning how to swim, that's for sure! Swimming lessons not only give adults the chance to stay safe around water, but they can also open up opportunities for other courses and aquatic activities. There are many different styles of learning for adult swimming lessons, and no matter which one you choose, it is important to learn the basics cleanly and clearly, in order to have a fair practice once you are no longer under the supervision of the instructor.

Going through a professional instructor guarantees the quality of the advice given, as well as the quality of the exercises and the programming of the sessions, which is priceless. In fact, if your sessions are done right and your swimming instructor is of a good level, then you will:

• make significant and noticeable progress at the cardiovascular level - Swimming is known and reputed for strengthening the entire body and also developing endurance; all without the slightest trauma to bones and joints!!!
• significantly improve muscle tone, refine your figure, and gain self-confidence.
• learn to feel comfortable even in deep water, which can be important when it comes to going to the beach or watching children who are playing.

It is often believed that one should wait 5 or 6 years before considering teaching your child to swim. However, experience shows that if you start earlier with an adapted method and a hint of patience, the results are very good, even in very young children. But while there is no age limit to learning to swim, there is a minimum age required to begin learning. Generally, the ideal age is considered to be 6-7 years old because before that age, the child does not have the necessary memorization, concentration and coordinated movement abilities required for swimming (although this is debatable when you see some toddlers confidently splashing around at 3 or 4 years old). In any case, it is believed that a child under six years old does not have the maturity to assimilate this new learning, and it is true that before this age, the child prefers to play, discover and may not be able to concentrate long enough to learn to swim. If your child shows an interest in the aquatic world from a young age, there are other alternatives to swimming lessons, and you should not deprive them (such as the famous aqua-kids courses, which have become very popular in recent years, so inquire about them!).

From the age of 6, it will therefore be possible to enroll your child in swimming lessons in a structure affiliated with the FFN (French Swimming Federation). While most parents opt for private lessons with a lifeguard, others enroll their children in a swimming club, which often offers group sessions, which can be a bit more convivial, depending on the child. The lessons will be more technical and often more focused on learning the crawl. On average, 10 30-minute lessons with a lifeguard are enough to teach a child to swim 25 meters independently.

For adults, especially those who cannot swim, understand that it is never too late to learn. In addition, we would like to give you 4 excellent reasons to learn to swim as an adult:

• If you are a parent, you know that children can sometimes be reckless around a pool or body of water. It then becomes a safety issue that you are present and able to rescue them quickly. If you cannot swim, you will feel helpless or worse, you will try to rescue them and drown yourself.

• Many people suffer from aquaphobia, which is the main reason why adults cannot swim. It is possible to fight against it and overcome it, which will be a great victory over yourself... to a degree that you probably cannot imagine.

• Specific exercises are planned for adults because they have different abilities than children (in terms of physical strength, reflection, awareness of danger, etc.). If you have been traumatized by the way your parents tried to teach you to swim when you were young, have no fear, the exercises are adapted and always performed with your prior agreement.

• Learning to swim as an adult is an excellent way to feel proud of yourself! As adults, we too often forbid ourselves from being proud of ourselves, even though it costs nothing, especially when it is for a good reason. And you will understand, learning to swim as an adult is an excellent reason to be proud of yourself.

We hope that in this section, we have conveyed to you how essential it is to know how to swim, and how your age is not a limiting factor, quite the opposite!

Finding swimming lessons is accessible to anyone, and nearly anywhere, as teachers, clubs, and pools are plentiful, no matter the city or region in which you reside (especially in urban or semi-urban areas). As always, it is best to start by asking your acquaintances and loved ones, because even though word of mouth may not be the most efficient way to find the perfect fit, it can save a lot of time and energy, so it should not be discounted. The town hall is also a good resource for information.

If you reside in a very remote area, deep in the countryside, not being able to find a pool or swimming lessons within a 10-20 km radius should not discourage you. Take a look at the nearest town of any significant size; typically, if there is a pool (preferably covered, as you may want to learn to swim in the fall or winter…), then there will be lessons offered by one or more professionals.

Regardless, if word of mouth does not yield anything, and this is entirely possible, then it is recommended to turn to the internet, by consulting a site such as StarOfService, for example, which lists all professionals in a given field, based on where you search. In just a few clicks, the site will give you the contact information for said professional and enable you to contact them directly, as well as for clubs or swimming teachers.

Before giving you any specific rates or price ranges, we would like to point out that your geographical location can have a relatively significant impact on the prices charged. It should be understood that the price range we are going to give you is necessarily a bit broad, because the rates charged in Paris or in other large metropolitan areas are inevitably higher than in a medium-sized town or a more remote village.

Having said that, let's agree that the rates for a swimming club vary from one pool to another, and that there is obviously no single rate for all clubs in France. The price depends on the reputation and results of the club, as well as the facilities that are available to members of the club or structure. For comparison, the price for a private swimming lesson ranges from 10 to 19 euros per hour, on average; sometimes the cost of pool entry must be added to this.

In general, in order to swim in a swimming club, expect to pay between 100 and 250 euros per year (including the license); so it is more interesting to swim in a club if you are looking to improve or if you want to benefit from the advice of a swimming coach over the long term. It should be noted that some clubs offer group classes, which can reduce costs on the one hand, and also provide the benefits of group synergy, which can sometimes be a real key to individual motivation. Ask yourself what would suit you best before diving in.

Before we dive into the most effective ways to find your ideal teacher, we would like to start by discussing the 5 main criteria that should guide you in your choice:

• A good coach is a good educator, meaning that he is there to help you progress, to facilitate learning and not just to make you sweat and suffer during his dedicated exercises. The good coach must be able to show pedagogy and also, of course, have a clear technical vision.
• The second point is technique: of course, training helps to gain strength, flexibility, and endurance, but a good coach must also be able to correct you in the technique to optimize your performance during effort.
• A coach must also know how to be a psychologist because the relationship with his student is crucial and has a very important impact on progress.
• Creativity is a point that should not be neglected, especially for coaches who emphasize performance because the repetition of the same exercises can, in the long run, have a negative impact on performance. It is therefore important to know how to find new ways of working, cross-disciplinary and playful, but always effective.
• Finally, and to conclude, we would like to emphasize that a good coach is also a person imbued with humility... Finding solutions to a given problem (whether it is overcoming one's fear of water or wanting to achieve a performance...) necessarily requires approaching it humbly, because it is precisely by making mistakes that we advance and progress.

Once these 5 criteria have been identified, as we have already mentioned earlier in this content, word of mouth is a means that can be useful in finding a swimming teacher who meets your expectations.

Indeed, word of mouth costs nothing, so start there! Go around to your friends, family and acquaintances, because it is quite possible that someone among them has heard of an address or a professional who offers excellent services, perhaps at the local municipal swimming pool?

If word of mouth does not yield the desired results, then go online and check out some professional referral sites, such as StarOfService for example. Here you will find lists of professionals who work in your area, as well as reviews and comments from clients who have used their services. We particularly insist on this last point, which is crucial to us, and we therefore invite you to really take the time to consult these reviews and comments, which really shed light on the quality of the professional's work. Consider that it is much better to spend a little time thoroughly examining reviews and comments rather than choosing your swimming teacher based on chance, only to end up with a disappointing or unproductive service.

Once you have found the rare gem, make sure to check their availability, ensure that the fees correspond to what you have planned or are willing to pay, and clearly state the dates and availability you would like to see honored, etc.

One last tip: be very careful with professionals who tend to propose prices well below market rates. Know that most of the time, far from being a good deal, this discounted price is not a guarantee of top-quality services. A wise customer is worth two...

• How long have you been practicing this profession?
• Do you have any initial training that led you to practice this profession? Are you yourself a former high-level athlete?
• What are your rates? Is it possible to have a breakdown of them? Do you have package rates for multiple sessions or group classes?
• Will you provide me with a proper quote before the classes?
• What are your availabilities?