Educaqua is the story of three swimming enthusiasts. After many years of competing, we became instructors to share our passion with as many people as possible. Together, we have more than a century of swimming experience and over 50 years of teaching swimming, from beginners to competitive swimmers.
Our respective professional backgrounds also include teaching children aged 3 to 12 and training in psychomotor development.
What we have observed
After all these years of teaching swimming, we still see the same difficulties in learning: anxiety around water, fear of going under water, and moving efficiently through the water (getting a good ‘feel’ for it).
Parents, meanwhile, often feel at a loss or poorly equipped to support their children as they learn.
So we asked ourselves a simple question: what kind of toy could be fun while also helping to develop the fundamental skills of swimming? The aim is clearly not to replace lessons taught by an experienced instructor, but to develop fundamental skills that help beginners feel at ease and make learning to swim easier later on. This approach will also help people who can already swim to strengthen certain skills.
Several hundred hours of discussions, prototypes and testing later… Educaqua was born!
