Australian surf titles 2003-2010
Chris, who turned 56 in 2003 is a living example of how being able to swim is a life long life saving skill when he won the Australian men’s 55-59 rescue tube at the 2003 Australian Surf Titles at Kurrawa beach.
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Chris Shapland – English Channel Swim completed
On September the 19th 2016 Chris Shapland became the second oldest Australian and the fifth oldest all time to swim across the English Channel. Whilst doing the swim has been a life long dream Chris really did the swim to show that if you have a sound swimming technique swimming is something you can do …
Video: Swimming lessons at Shapland Swim School Moorooka
Lucas Shapland is a fourth generation swimming teacher who runs the Moorooka location. Check out this great video he put together of some of the learn to swim students showing off their Personal Aquatic Survival Skills.
Kids To Do reviews a Shapland swimming lesson
Recently, Karen Ghidella from KidsToDo.com.au visited one of our swim school locations and experienced a typical swimming lesson for her twin boys with Chris Shapland. She has written a review and posted it on the Kids To Do website so everyone can share in her experience. The blog post includes a fantastic video that Karen …
Progressing in the Shapland System
In order to understand what is happening with your child’s Personal Aquatic Survival Skills development you need to know what was in my head when we started to franchise out what my family had been doing since 1947. My philosophy since 1992 has been to supply affordable semi-private swimming lessons in a pool and surrounds …
No one is drown proof
We live in such a changing society where there are ever increasing demands on our time and resources. If a child has the ability to get back to safety if they fall into a still body of water, it helps take some of the worry away when you are near a pool or a body …
What is MySSS?
Since 1993 Shapland Swim Schools have used a unique computer program to manage their day-to-day rosters in real time. Over the years we have developed that program to the point where it is now a seamless piece of software that now gives our clients and prospective clients a direct access to their Shapland Swim School …
Chelsea saves her life
Sixteen month old Chelsea put the skills she learnt at swimming lessons to avoid a potentially dangerous situation. I received this email for one very happy mum. “Hi. I have had my daughter in Shapland’s Warner for around 7 months. She has just turned 16 months. Today I had my kids at the local pool …
Three year old Parker saves himself
I though I would share an email with you that came into my computer from a very happy Grandmother. Julie is happy for me to post this email as she really wants parents to know just how fast a swimming incident can happen and the value of swimming lessons. In this situation it was the …
Highest quality – low cost – ideal learning environment
I have been asked many times how we keep our lesson costs relatively low compared to the local industry mean lesson cost. The answer is simple; lower overheads to run our current specialist learn to swim centers and over seven decades of experience. That experience not only relates to our unique Swim in Five learn …
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