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Here are some Testimonials from customers
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Dear Jane and Frank, Many, many thanks for an unforgettable week, your wonderful hospitality and truly outstanding swimming lessons. I was terrified of water at the start of the week, but I overcame that fear on the very first day and was able to swim consecutive lengths of the pool at all three strokes by the Friday. I am in a state of shock at the total turn around, and stunned at how Frank knew exactly what input was needed every step of the way. |
You have truly changed my life. I want to thank you also for making me feel so safe and welcome at all times. It was a bit daunting coming on my own - I needn`t have worried. Thank you so much. I really appreciate all that you have done - I just wish I could have stayed another week !
Best wishes to you both
Joyce, SRN Southampton
A year after going to The Kennedy Swim Technique Centre to learn how to swim, my progress was so impressive that I was able to qualify as a full ASA swimming teacher myself. This qualifies me for employment, but I will only ever teach my pupils to swim with the superior methods that I have learned from working with Mr Kennedy at The Kennedy Swim Technique Centre. From the non swimmer to the advanced teacher I would advise everyone to seek the opportunity of learning at The Kennedy Swim Technique Centre.
David Mayhew, F.I.S.T.C Cheltenham
After I passed my ASA teachers I trained at The Kennedy Swim Technique Centre to learn their specialised methods of introducing nervous non swimmers to water. Using these new skills was clearly impressive and I was immediately offered extra money by my employers at that time (Tower Hamlets council) to apply my new skills to both the adult and children lessons that I was involved with, the results were astonishing and i soon found myself being offered a job as swimming co-ordinator in charge of all the lessons running at that time.
Since fully qualifying with The Kennedy Swim Technique Centre I now work with private clients only earning over £50 an hour as a very respected swimming teacher in and around London.
Please feel free to contact me.
Josephine Jennings (email: jo2swim@hotmail.com)
Dear Kennedy Swim Technique Centre, This is just a quick note to express our gratitude for teaching our 4-year-old daughter, Amelia to swim. As your technique proved, there is more to swimming than floating and moving your arms and legs in the water. Prior to coming to your school, Amelia had to be taken out of school swimming lessons, and also would not use a shower. Your approach of first getting her to blow bubbles in a bowl of water "cracked the ice", and testimony to your technique, is that she could swim ¾ of a mile front crawl within 9 months. Such was the transformation that the local television station even featured her on a news article.
Once again, thank you. Wendy and I wish you many more successes.
Kind regards
Allen Edmondson
After teaching and sharing ideas together at The Savoy Hotel, the famous celebrity teacher Pierre Gruneberg of France said of Frank Kennedy,
"I could not teach this man anything, he is the true professional".
After just two lessons at The Kennedy Swim Technique Centre I know that, after years of failed attempts, I will soon be a swimmer - I can already float!
Before my first lesson I was really very frightened - I need not have been.
As soon as I drove up Jane Kennedy was on hand to welcome and reassure me, telling me where to get changed et cetera.
I had been very worried that no form of float was to be used but this turned out to be a real bonus. What I have achieved at each lesson I know I have really accomplished with no doubt hanging over me as in the past when it had always been "will I be able to do this when the floats are taken away". I have learnt and am confident in the fact that the only support I need is good deep breaths (which Frank takes time to teach you to do properly) plus the water.
I had the added worry that you cannot wear hearing aids in the pool. Again I need not have worried I am learning despite my disability. I just regret all those years I have missed when I could have enjoyed the water rather than being terrified of it.
Frances
I have attended various swimming lessons throughout my life, but without any success, because of my great fear of water. How wonderful it was, and how easy, even at the age of 67 to finally conquer this fear. I am now able to swim front crawl. This is all down to Frank's unique approach to swimming tuition.
Diane Huggins
Having spent much of my twenty-nine years in various kinds of education, I read Law at Oxford University, am a qualified lawyer, and have enrolled on various other courses too, I have found that all outstanding teachers share three key characteristics:
1. A wide, deep and ever-developing knowledge of their area which springs from an heartfelt passion.
2. A capacity to communicate at different levels plus an ability to adapt this to match each individual's requirements, whatever they may be.
3. A personality that inspires people to shine.
Experience has shown me that only when a teacher has all three factors, do I really learn as opposed to just get by. I have found this to be as true in lessons I've had in salsa, astrology, cooking, IT, and Spanish, as in formal education.
After previous swimming lessons at school, my local leisure centre, and other private instructors, I've not been able to manage more than a handful of awkward strokes. Even with determination and commitment on my part; after all, it's not all down to the teacher! I used to think that I'd never be able to swim well, but I now think it's because the instructors I've had in the past just weren't up to it. Despite being very able swimmers themselves, they just didn't know how to show me what to do in a way that worked for me. I know this harsh judgment is true because I've finally got a good front crawl stroke after a four-day intensive course with The Kennedy Swim Technique. Frank's got all three with bells on.
Frank's enthusiasm for teaching people to swim is so fresh that you wouldn't know that he'd been doing it for over thirty years already. He's a star at helping you to relax in the water, pinpointing where you're at, and then carefully building your confidence and ability to swim in a step-by-step manner with such charm and professionalism that you don't even realise just how much work he's making you do! Frank is also refreshingly honest about what you can reasonably expect to achieve in the time you have with him based on where you're starting from and how much work you put in. For example, he helped me to begin to develop a sound swimming stroke and breathing technique. I can see why many students return to The Kennedy Swim Technique Centre for more lessons. It's hard not to enjoy learning to swim when you're learning with the best.
As if all this was not enough, Jane welcomes you and looks after you with such warmth during your stay that you feel like you're staying with family. What's more, you'll be staying in some very stylishly decorated cottages (Frank and Jane have experience of the antiques business), which, like the tuition itself, are worth the visit alone. Also, the pool has a wonderful, serene atmosphere and is the best I've ever swum in, especially as far as the condition of my skin and hair are concerned. And in case you still have any lingering doubts, I should remind you that the Cotswolds is a heavenly location. In between lessons, I made some very enjoyable visits to places such as Sudeley Castle, Hailes Abbey, Winchcombe Pottery, Broadway Tower, Chipping Campden and several country inns, and all amongst what must be the most beautiful scenery in England.
If you're serious about learning to swim, it's got to be The Kennedy Swim Technique.
Leena Chauhan
I have just spent a magical weekend at Didbrook Fields. Why? Well, it's easier to explain today than it would have been last week!
I have never been a good swimmer; probably because I was never taught properly as a child and because I was afraid to get my face wet! but I have always liked and respected water.
Last September, whilst on holiday in South West France with my family, I had a dreadful experience. My daughter (aged over 30!) and I were standing just above the shoreline watching the sea. There was no way we were going into the sea, as it was much to rough. So there we were, fully clothed, watching the waves, when a wave came and just took me. Just like that. I panicked, my daughter grabbed for me and fortunately my husband saw what had happened and tore across the beach and hauled me out of the water. I was sure I was dead. I was terrified.
Ever since it happened I have not been near water, even watching people in water on television made the hairs on the back of my neck bristle. Every night I would wake up as I re-lived the nightmare - nightmare of that sea covering my head and taking me away.
The initial telephone to The Kennedy Swim Technique Centre took some courage, but not as much courage as the telephone call to arrange lessons. The weekend before I was due to start my visit we were in the Didbrook Fields area and called in to meet Frank and Jane - I felt like a naughty child in front on the headmaster - I was scared.
The day I started my lessons, I made myself comfortable in the warm, cosy Hayloft, tried to relax. At the appointed time I presented myself in the swimming pool - terrified!
Frank was wonderful, he is so positive and understanding, just being in the water with him gave me a kind of confidence - it was wonderful. At the end of the lesson, just 45 minutes, I was totally elated - I could not believe what I had achieved. I was actually able to move under water, put my face in water, pick up the 'octopus' from the bottom of the pool! This was me - who 45 minutes ago would not even get my face wet. I just couldn't believe it.
My second lesson on that Friday was even more rewarding, I did things that I had never even dreamt of doing. It was brilliant.
I went to bed happy, tired but happy, and I'm sure I had a big grin on my face even as I fell asleep. And I did sleep. I woke in the morning and realised that there had been no nightmares. I just couldn't wait to get back into the pool.
I have now been home for two days and still no nightmares, and still the grin on my face. I feel wonderful, a new person. I have achieved, what was for me, the impossible. Do I have any regrets? Just two:
- I should have done it 50 years ago and,
- I should have stayed at Didbrook Fields for a week.
My thanks go to Jane for making me feel so at home and relaxed in that lovely cottage, and to Frank for all the confidence he has given me and for his teaching skills that have given me a new dimension in my life.
Thank you.
Margaret, Northamptonshire
Dear Frank,
I just wanted to write with my thanks to you for all the help you gave to me and Pauline during the weekend of 27th July. We were both very nervous but your method of teaching was most helpful to us. I had certainly never been able to put my face, let alone my head, into water before and found it a whole new experience.
Teaching us to take a deep breath first meant I could see under water for the first time and when I picked up the frog from the bottom of the pool as an exercise I felt so pleased with myself. It was hard work as I was probably very unfit to start with, but the feeling it gives you of being in control with yourself in the water makes it all so worth while.
The accommodation was superb and Jane was there to welcome us and explain about the sessions in the pool. It is in a lovely location with lots of interesting places to go and lots to see, and having lovely weather was the icing on the cake.The cottage was very comfortable with everything needed for a weekend away.
I am extremely grateful to you for your encouragement and praise when I achieved swimming a length. It was a wonderful feeling that can never be taken away. I now feel much happier about going swimming in the knowledge that I can relax my head into the water without fear, can float and glide easily and swim a length.
Thank you most sincerely for the informative weekend and I wish you every success for the future.
Best wishes to you both
Gloria Darbourne
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