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Courses
Pool Primer
Prepare your little one for pool fun and swim lessons with Pool Primer!
This engaging course teaches essential pool rules, safety tips, and what to expect.
Through visuals, activities, and simple explanations, toddlers learn about walking safely, staying with a grown-up, and basic water skills.
Build confidence and excitement for a positive and safe pool experience!
U CAN Artistic Swim
Artistic Swimming, formerly called Synchronized Swimming, is a strenuous sport, that requires strength, stamina, fitness, timing, beauty and of course, great swim skills. Skills are developed in the course of participation. Rookies welcome.
Judging Springboard Diving
Creative Programming with 99 Special Events Tips for Summer Pool Managers & Country Clubs
U CAN Be a Diver
Springboard diving!
Leading Underwater Hockey
Assessors’ Toolbox
This course provides swimming instructors, supervisors and managers with the skills to effectively evaluate, monitor, and communicate with instructors, tutors and assistant coaches in order to ensure high quality swimming lessons and aquatic programs are delivered. Instructor competence, lesson assessment, progress tracking, communication, and administration, supervisors gain a system-wide review of the tools to standardize and enhance swimming instruction across the organization. The course covers observation techniques, providing constructive feedback, testing swim levels, managing students of different abilities, communicating with stakeholders, documentation best practices, and strategies for ongoing instructor development. Learn practical methods for assessing instructors, lessons, and student advancement in order to maintain excellent swimming instruction within the U CAN Swim network.
U CAN Boat (Row & Paddle & Tube)
U CAN Swim Fast
The U CAN Swim Fast course is far more technical than the levels of Dolphins, Super Dolphins and Stages. The course can bridge youngsters to head for the competitive, age group swim team. And, the course can help swimmers already on the team sharpen all of their skills -- as there are 105 in the skills checklist for this course.
Get Your Feet Wet – Exercises
New. Get basic weight training knowledge that will improve your awareness of physical fitness, personal health, conditioning and strength training. Each exercise includes a video that explains what to do and what not to do.
U CAN Yoga
Introductory Price now in effect. Get more than 10 text-based lessons and more than 10 video routines. Each video routine plays for around 20-minutes. Project the routine for a team or class to follow. Or, with self-study, learn to do the routine and lead it for others.
Mental Skills for Young Athletes
Suitable for young athletes of any sport.
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TISCA Extras
U CAN Teach
U CAN Teach is for anyone who teaches or wants to teach swimming. It's a terrific resource for those who want to obtain certification from Swimming/ Natation Canada (SNC).
Aquatics for Life
Aquatics for Life is a course for adults as part of the series called Lifespan Aquatics Programming.
Bob Steele’s Open Course for Swimming Coaches
Coach Bob Steele, now retired from day-to-day coaching, was an inductee into the International Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2022. Here are some of his videos.
U CAN Adapt
Upgrade
The Upgrade Course is for those who already have or have had certifications in the past from CurrentWave, Royal Life, Red Cross, ISCA or other recognized entity.
Pull Your Own Weight
Functional Fitness Philosophy with How-To Advice.
Coaching Volleyball
Volleyball, a world-wide sports, happens in school and at the beach.