Survival Swim Instructor – Melissa & Chris Olson, Baby Sharks Infant Aquatics

About Melissa & Chris

Meet the Team

Melissa and Chris are a husband-and-wife crew each out and in of the pool, blessed with three youngsters and proud Air Force veterans. They share a deep dedication to water security and drowning prevention, impressed by watching their youthful youngsters full 4 years of survival swim classes and by internet hosting and supporting different households throughout these years. They carry in depth expertise instructing survival swim classes to households all through the Emerald Coast. Their shared objective is to assist youngsters acquire life-saving expertise whereas constructing confidence and independence within the water.

They educate year-round in a heated, coated pool, providing non-public classes with choices after non-public classes from aquababies (lessons for infants and caregivers after the floater program), group lessons (after the swim float swim program), upkeep classes, and fundamental stroke improvement. As in any sport, common follow builds confidence and skill. By offering continued instruction past preliminary survival coaching, youngsters can proceed to strengthen their expertise as they develop as a result of water security isn’t seasonal.

Melissa is a Certified Infant Aquatics Instructor and Air Force veteran who makes a speciality of self-rescue swim classes for infants, toddlers, and kids by teenagers utilizing the Swim Float Swim methodology. She can also be First Aid/CPR/AED licensed. Melissa initially educated extensively in Colorado with Judy Heumann, the founding father of Infant Aquatics, an expertise that formed her dedication to instructing survival swim classes. Dedicated to continuous skilled progress, she values collaboration with different Infant Aquatics instructors. She enjoys each internet hosting different Infant Aquatics instructors and touring to different Infant Aquatics places, bringing again new
strategies to strengthen all of the Baby Sharks Infant Aquatics packages.

Chris can also be a Certified Infant Aquatics Instructor and Air Force veteran, with a background as an Intelligence Analyst and a number of abroad deployments. He accomplished an intensive, hands-on coaching program with Judy Heumann, specializing in little one improvement, habits, anatomy, physiology, and sensory integration. He can also be First Aid/CPR/AED licensed. Chris brings over 20 years of expertise in triathlon coaching and competitors to his instruction and is an lively member of the Joe Zarzaur Tri Team. Combined with 4 years of involvement in his personal youngsters’s progress by survival swim classes, these experiences have formed his robust dedication to instructing water security and life-saving expertise.

Together, Melissa and Chris work to empower youngsters ages 6 months by their teen years with the important life-saving ability of self-rescue floating utilizing the confirmed foundational swim float swim methodology, whereas additionally working towards the power to develop stronger swim expertise by fundamental strokes that put together youngsters for a lifetime of confidence, security, and success within the water. Both instructors attend bi-yearly coaching retreats to repeatedly increase their data and refine strategies, making certain each little one receives the most secure and simplest instruction doable.

Based in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Baby Sharks Infant Aquatics proudly serves Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Pensacola, Milton, Pace, Cantonment, Perdido Beach, Mary Ester, Fort Walton Beach, and all surrounding communities.

Guided by religion, Melissa and Chris are devoted to stopping drowning and to equipping youngsters with confidence and a lifelong love of water security expertise. Follow their journey and see updates, encouragement, and program highlights on their Facebook web page here and their Instagram web page here.