Why don't we do trials and why is our subscription three months long?

The main reason we don't have trial lessons is that our program is based on love. And love for anything, not just water, cannot be judged on one occasion... Safety and familiarity are one of the basic feelings that a child and a parent must feel. Coming to a trial, which means entering a place you don't know for the first time with your child, where everything is new, the water, the coach, your classmates, doesn't have time to develop feelings of familiarity and safety. A person needs time to trust someone else. So how will your child be able to get used to all this new information that is spread out in front of him for the first time? Just think for a moment about how a child feels when he sees a pool for the first time: A large mass of moving water - what is that? Are you going to suck me in? With a guy in a suit - Who is that, my God? – and endless colors and songs and and and… That's why, for the child to become familiar with the space, the coach and the other children, he needs at least 6 lessons.

Our program is educational. The child does not come just to pass the time but also to learn. And to learn, it takes time. If at the first dissatisfaction the child gives up, he will give up forever. He will be left with a negative image and will associate it with something he did not succeed in and will repel him for a long time, perhaps forever. But if you find a way to unlock it, through opportunities, time and many choices and games, then feeling safe in the water is guaranteed forever. This is where the proper training of coaches comes in, who will help the child see the water with a happy eye and believe in himself. When he believes, knowledge is automatic and never leaves.

In order for someone to participate in our program and maintain the hygiene of the pool - one of our main concerns, as the pool is used by infants and pregnant women - it means that they must have gathered all the necessary medical certificates: a medical certificate from a pediatrician for the child, a medical certificate from a pathologist, dermatologist, gynecologist for a female companion and a medical certificate from a pathologist, dermatologist for a male companion. So how can we ask someone to provide all these certificates for just one lesson? It requires commitment from all participants and responsibility to maintain the hygiene and smoothness of the program.

The 95% of children love water and from the first lesson they “break it”. However, there is a possibility that a child has a trauma with water. For example, after a drowning or burning incident and has developed a phobia. In a coastal country like ours, it is unacceptable to have children who drown in a few centimeters of water or are excessively afraid of water. In the best case scenario, the parent has understood where the problem started and so from the beginning we enter into a very calm and long-term program of familiarization with water, with the aim of the child completely overcoming the problem. In these cases, the ideal period for the child’s “recovery” is the 6 lessons, through a fully studied education program again through love. In the worst case, the parent has not understood where the dissatisfaction started (of course, here we are not dealing with a phobia, but with simple dissatisfaction, which however inhibits the child from testing his abilities in the water). In this case, the parent has not understood that the child was dissatisfied somewhere (e.g. in a shower at home, water suddenly fell into the child's eyes and from then on the child screams as soon as you go to wet him) and a trial lesson can be disastrous for his subsequent experience in the water. With a trial lesson, we will not even have time to understand whether the child needs more careful treatment due to the bad experience, in order to finally overcome the dissatisfaction.