WATER SAFETY INSTRUCTOR Course (WSI)
The Water Safety Instructor, also known as WSI course, trains instructor candidates to teach all the classes presented in the Swimming and Water Safety program to all age groups. This certification is the gold standard and provides the most comprehensive training for swim instructors.
What You’ll Learn:
During our swim instructor certification training course, you’ll learn how to help individuals enjoy their time in the water safely – and in various ways. Throughout the course, we focus on several key areas that can help you succeed as an aquatic instructor, such as:
Water safety at public pools, homes, natural bodies of water, and more, including the Circle of Drowning Prevention and Chain of Drowning Survival.
Hydrodynamics, including why some things float, resistance to movement and creating movement in the water, swimming efficiency, and laws of levers.
Basic safety, survival, and swimming skills to help children gain water competency
Helping people with disabilities and other health conditions enjoy the water safely.
Water Safety Instructors will also learn to teach:
Higher-level swimming skills help prepare people of all ages for any aquatic activity.
Stroke mechanics for all competitive strokes starts, turns, and headfirst entries.
Water safety certification courses, including Safety Training for Swim Coaches and Basic Water Rescue.Fundamentals of diving from a diving board.
Aquatic fitness and training for people of any age.
(Note: To participate in Water Safety Instructor certification classes, participants must be at least 15 years of age by the end of the course.)