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Our new Foss Swim School in Burnsville, MN opens for lessons in March 2023, and we want to share a little flavor of what’s in store at our newest location! We’re already excited to be a part of the Burnsville community. In fact, our teachers and team members (joined by ...

The grand opening of our new Foss Swim School in Rock Hill, MO has special meaning to us and to this community. We love all our new locations, of course, but in this case it’s also a kind of rebirth: The Rock Hill school is in the same neighborhood and ...

This blog is the fourth part in our series breaking down the FOSS Swim Path®. Read the third part on Flip to Breathe. The ability to swim confidently is the ultimate goal we have established for the Foss Swim School Learn to Swim progression, the first and largest part of the ...

Every year has its challenges and triumphs – and sometimes both at once. Here at Foss Swim School, we are lucky to be able to teach both swimming and life skills, and also learn our own life lessons along the way. As 2022 winds down, we asked team members to ...

You’ve taken the plunge and enrolled for your first Foss Swim School swimming lesson! That’s so exciting, but now what? Below, we break down the next steps, how you should prepare and what first-time FOSS families can expect at the first lesson. To get the lay of the land, remember ...

Foss Swim School takes pride in operating like a school, using a structure and schedule that delivers the best possible learning environment for students. It’s why we schedule weekly classes in quarters instead of drop-in classes – quarters allow students and instructors to develop rapport and trust and give students ...

It’s not only back to-school-season in your neighborhood, but here at Foss Swim School too! It’s an exciting time for students AND teachers. We’re a couple of weeks into our fall quarter and wanted to share some of the lessons and classes our instructors told us they love to teach. ...

Swimming comfort has come a long way since the days before goggles and before we had advanced filtration and water quality control. A lot of times chlorine and bleach were measured and dumped into pools by hand, a recipe for bloodshot eyes, scratchy skin and discolored hair. Foss Swim School ...

It’s hard to find much to fault in Regan Smith’s swimming ability. The Lakeville, MN native has medaled in the Olympics, and now in 2022 is preparing to swim in the World Championships in Budapest – but she understands that swimming, like any skill, doesn’t come easy. “I especially remember ...

The newest Foss Swim School location began classes on June 5, and we’re excited to bring our new neighbors the improved water safety, confidence, and development that comes with learning to swim! The new location is in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota, a Twin Cities suburb north of St. Paul, and has ...

It’s safe to say Regan Smith is comfortable around water. With three swimming medals earned at the 2020 Olympic games, two first place finishes at the 2019 World Championships, and a pair of current or former world records to her name, the Lakeville, MN native (who learned to swim at ...

Learning to swim well involves mastering a wide range of different skills, but few are more important than learning to trust and understand how you float. Benjamin Franklin actually wrote about learning to trust buoyancy in a letter to a friend, and included this very practical swimming exercise: Stand in ...

Time is one of those rare things we all have in equal amounts, and how we choose to use it is one of our most important decisions. So when we designed the Foss Swim School curriculum, the length of the lessons was not an arbitrary choice. It’s also a matter ...

Elle Janke Swim Teacher Woodbury, MN   Do you have a nickname your students call you? Ella What is your favorite part of working for FOSS? Seeing the kids succeed and gain water confidence! What is your favorite FOSS story? My favorite FOSS story would have to be watching all ...

Who would think that choosing a swimsuit could affect water safety? But it really can! The visibility provided by a swimsuit can aid water watchers in spotting a swimmer in distress, a point proven by Natalie Livingston, co-founder of Alive Solutions, an aquatic safety consultancy serving pools and aquatic centers, ...