Swim4Life - Bridging the Gap between Pool and Open Water
A Different Kind of Swim School
An open water safety-based swim school for infants and older in Evergreen, Colorado + surrounding areas.
OPEN WATER SWIMMING LESSONS IN EVERGREEN, CO
Prepare for any type of water outside of the pool
As a team of open water instructors fluent in open water safety, we're committed to the idea that everyone should learn how to swim in open water.
By teaching you the skills you and your family need to know to navigate undertows, riptides, river currents, and directional floating, we'll get your family prepared to navigate wherever your next open water adventure takes you.
Open water swimming lessons for a family beach vacation.
Our Mission
To help families enjoy the water activities they love with confidence by bridging the gap between predictable pool settings and open water.
Open water swimming lessons for a family beach vacation.
When 74% of drownings happen in open water over the age of 5, we believe in taking a preventative approach to our swim lessons.
Our open water safety swim lessons integrate stroke techniques, water dynamics and science, and a nurturing relationship with the water so kids and adults learn how to confidently and intuitively navigate open water, such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.
From teaching them directional floating to how to navigate an undertow or riptide to recovering from a flipped raft — we cover everything they need to know for any open water condition.
Open water swimming lessons for activities on the river.
Open Water Program
for Safe Swimmers
How is your swim lesson curriculum preparing students for: Riptides, Rivers, Waves, Lakes…? It’s easy with our skill sets added into your current swim program. We will give you what is proven to transfer skills from the pool to open water. Very cost-effective and sure to increase revenue by addressing parents goals of enjoying natural water settings as a family. Parents will seek you out because as we hear time and again, “No one else is doing this.” We are out to change that.
Our swim lessons are built around our Signature 4 Pillars:
Empower kids with knowledge
We not only teach kids and adults core swim techniques they’d learn at other swim schools — we also teach them the science of water, how it works with their bodies, and breathing techniques.
2. Water is unpredictable (but manageable)
There’s no denying open water can be unpredictable. However, it’s still manageable. To prepare our students, we use a flow head that replicates different open water conditions in a controlled environment. The result? They leave with skills they can apply to real-life situations.
3. Teach life-applicable swim skills
At Swim4Life, we don’t dance around the real possibility of drowning accidents. Taking a preventative and safety-first approach, we train our students to develop life-applicable skills and techniques. We also focus on creating subconscious responses that trigger during dangerous situations to prevent them from panicking in real-life open water.
4. Water is healing
We believe water is healing. In addition to teaching skills, we encourage kids and adults to develop a nurturing relationship with water — allowing it to soothe their anxiety, comfort them when they’re sad, and support them without effort.
FOUNDER OF SWIM4LIFE | COMPETITIVE SWIMMER | TECHNICAL SWIM COACH | AQUATIC THERAPIST
Meet Courtney Kline
Courtney was faced with the real dangers of open water drowning when she fell out of a raft at age 12. Despite having been a competitive swimmer since 5 years old, she realized there was a gap between the skills she knew so well in the pool to the skills she should’ve known to save herself.
Determined to fix this gap she saw in traditional swimming lessons, Courtney became involved with the National Drowning Prevention Learn To Swim as an advocate and speaker. Today, she is a nationally-acclaimed open-water safety swimming instructor, technical swim coach, killer whale trainer, and aquatic therapist.
Most importantly, she created Swim4Life’s Lifesaving Swim Lesson Curriculum, which teaches kids the science of water, how to build a trusting relationship with water, and open water safety skills she would’ve loved to know when she was 12.
Courtney wanted to be able to look parents in the eye and say “I made your kids safer” — and know she really did.
Today, she gets to live out her mission every day: teaching infants to adults open water skills so they can feel confident and comfortable no matter if they’re in a pool, lake, river, or ocean.
Open water swimming lessons for open water outings.
WHAT FAMILIES ARE SAYING ABOUT OUR FACILITY
“In only 1 year of weekly lessons, my son has gone from tentative to confident!
He’s now knowledgeable in many different types of moving natural water and continues to learn more every week! He can swim safely, confidently, and intelligently — from the low-flowing rivers in Colorado to the oceans of Hawaii. Swim4Life continues to teach my son outdoor water skills that will last a lifetime. His learning continues to open new possibilities for us so we can enjoy water activities from rafting to kayaking to paddleboarding all around Colorado. I couldn’t be more thankful. Thank you, Courtney, Corynn, and the Swim4Life team!”
- Kevin S.
"I appreciate the approach. They use words and methods that are understandable. If they understand the “why” then the “what” comes easier. Before coming here, the boys had trust issues and that has gone away. I like that they need to ask permission before jumping in the water. They’ve learned a good relationship with the water, but also the gravity of the situation."
- Anne Patterson
"Like the idea that when she gets in the water he has to have a plan. This is personalized, lifesaving training. They teach the building blocks of swimming to help build confidence and better understanding of the water."
- Carisa Smith
"The instructors give the water a personality. Keeps parents engaged. The lessons are worth every penny knowing that you could be saving your kid’s life."
- Julie Sharp