Foss Swim School

Yes it’s expensive. But learning to swim is a must and I think every child should know how to swim so cost isn’t important to me IF they are progressing. We’ve had a few headaches with the level progression. They wanted to hold my child back based on one thing he needs to work on. Then he’s bored in the next session while the other kids look like beginners.
I dislike that they level eval so early in the session. It seems like they don’t want to pass anyone.
So they get your child swimming? Yes. Its a headache sometimes that they aren’t working specifically on what your child needs to work on. Frustrating.
I wish they’d teach more endurance and how to tread water.
They need more showers too.
And as of today the pool is filthy. Like so dirty. Yuck! No wonder why my child keeps getting ear infections.
Overall we continue to go as we have a pool at our House. He needs to learn to swim and nothing in the area compares.

My son learned more in one Foss camp than he did in two years of Red Cross swimming lessons at the local middle school and a set of YMCA swim lessons AND a set of Lifetime Fitness swim lessons. So while the tuition is pricey per class, when you figure that they are learning to swim a lot faster than they do in cheaper classes, it comes out to be a pretty good value. The management staff is great and accommodating, the instruction is top notch, parent communications are clear, and there are extra opportunities for fun (fun meets, family days). My kids have learned swimming as well as survival skills (my toddler was taught how to swim back to the side in case of an accidental fall into a pool, as well as back floats for all my kids). We did our first «fun meet» last month and my kids loved it and so did I. They got to «race» in a very supportive and non-​competitive environment and stretch themselves a little farther than they usually do in class. We are a Foss family now — totally converted — we will never waste money on cheap swim classes again — you get what you pay for.

Both of my kids have been going here for a few years now. The instructors are great and the classes usually never have more than 5 kids in them. Often times there are only 2 – 3 kids per class. My only complaint is that it isn’t cheap. This is definitely «upscale» swimming instruction. The other minor complaint I have is that they don’t teach kids basic swimming SURVIVAL skills like how to tread in deep water. So while they trained my kids to be great swimmers, they still would drown eventually in deep water if they didn’t have a life jacket on because they don’t know how to tread water. I think Foss should incorporate this basic swimming skill into their lessons. Now I’m stuck trying to figure out how to teach my kids how to tread.

All the instructors my son has had have been great. They are all about teaching swimming. Even the games they play teach valuable swimming skills. The building is designed for swimming lessons and does not have distractions for the kids like a water park attached to the pool. You are not paying to have someone watch your kid splash in the pool with other kids for half the lesson. If you want to go somewhere that is going to teach your kid so swim this is the place.