Since a very young age, back in my hometown, my mum used to take me to the pool over the summer: I would spend days playing in the water with my brothers and our friends. Eventually, I was put into a summer swimming camp, where I was selected to get into the swimming squad and started to train being one of the youngest in the group.
When I moved to London, 9 years ago (after a graduation in Social Services and after having run hospitality businesses with my family and friends), I was willing to design my lifestyle around movement again. So I studied to get my swimming certificates and applied for a swimming instructor position as soon as I got them.
Since then, I’ve been enjoying being a swimming coach: it matches my lifestyle (I love movement and I do need to move), I do enjoy being in the water and it’s a human-relationship-based kind of job.
The water it’s FUN! Yet calming at the same time. It’s good on the body: swimming, but also just being in the water, has incredible recovery benefits that other sports don’t have. Plus, it’s literally a lifesaving skill.
As a swimming instructor, my aim is not just teaching strokes, but primarily, it’s to build up a safe relationship with the water, the understanding of how our body works in relation to the water and the promotion of the importance of breathing techniques in order to establish quality swimming and happy times in the water.
