Swimming Instruction & Swimming Lessons for Adults and Children in your Heated Pool, Bay & Ocean. Water Exercise & Aerobics. Water Safety Instructor, Pool & Waterfront Lifeguard. Fitness Training. Basic Pool Lifeguard Training. Adult Swim Lessons Year-round. Swimming exercises & swim stroke instruction. Balance, strength, fexibility & stress reduction. Teaching in The Hamptons over 30 years.
1.) Please leave text messages on my cell phone and also Email your swimming lesson requests and information. Due to poor cell reception in my area, I am missing some of your return phone #'s on voicemail.
Texts on my cell, always come through and are the best way to reach me, 24 hours.
At this time, I only check emails, early mornings and evenings, so use your texting skills! Office calls are checked only in the evenings.
2.) Outdoor Pool Lessons will begin as soon as
your pool is open and the
Air Temp is at least 70F
& Water Temp at least 86F-89F.
I am available, now!
Summer Swim Lessons for Children & Adults
in your Heated Pool & Bays or Ocean
Basic Lifeguarding Rescue techniques are taught
in most of my lessons...Children love it! Useful skills to know by the time they become teens.
Water Aerobics, Stretching in the pool
Water Exercise, available Summers
Learn to use Mask, Fins and Snorkel this Summer!
Adult Swimming Lessons in a Heated Pool available Year-round
Exercise for Swimming:
Balance, Strength, Flexibility,
Coordination & Stress Reduction
Swimming Exercises are also great for Children & Will teach basic swimming strokes. (Followup Lessons in a pool are available)
Office Telephone, answered mornings and evenings only: 631-725-1458
Lessons can be given in the rain, but not during thunderstorms.
Lessons continue after Labor Day into Fall.
Adult lessons available year-round.
Swimming Lessons in your Pool the Bay and Ocean for Children & Adults
Water Safety Instructor Pool and Waterfront Lifeguard Ocean lifeguard for 20 years Over 30 years experience, teaching swimming
Swimming: The only Summer activity that can save your child's life, your own life or another person's life!
Your kids should have fun in the swim lesson. Though the emphasis is on learning skills, I will have games for them that also teach skills. This will give your child, a lifelong love of the water!
Hurry, and sign up Swimming Lessons: Memorial Day! Lessons go throughout September, if your pool is heated. Adult lessons available year round.
Swimming Fitness for Children 8 years and up
Basic Pool Lifeguard Training For Children 8 and Up
New Olympic Strokes!
Water Aerobics & Pool Workouts
Ocean Swimming Lessons for Children & Adults
Relaxation techniques in your pool
Montauk to Southampton
Contact Rich Parker @ Text me on my Cell @ 516-381-7697 , ALL DAY 24/7
Office 631-725-1458 Mornings & Evenings during summers Email: gwavefit@optonline.net , I read emails, only, Mornings & Evenings during summers
Certifications, Degrees and Experience:
30 years Teaching Swimming
20 Years of Ocean Lifeguarding
ACE Certified Personal Trainer for 17 years
25 years experience Fitness Training
ARC Water Safety Instructor 17 years
ARC Waterfront / Pool Lifeguard
CPR / AED certified
Suffolk County Civil Service Ocean Lifeguard, 20 years experience
Master of Science Degree in Education, LIU
PADI SCUBA DIVER
Triathlons and Marathons, 1 mile swim races, 10K running races
Lifeguard Competitions
Surfing 25 years
Gravity Wave Fitness Training and Fight Gravity Fitness businesses, in The Hamptons, since 1998
Swimming Instruction:
All Ages and Abilities
Swimming Lessons for Adults And Children
Basic Pool Lifeguard Training for Children
Overcome fear of the Water
Swimming and Exercise for Seniors in your pool
Skin Diving Instruction (Mask, Fins, Snorkel)
Triathlon Swim Training
Water Exercise, Water Aerobics, Flexibility and Range of Motion Exercises in your pool for the Overweight Individual
Lessons for Adults Who Have Lost Their Swimming Ability
Update to the New Hydrodynamic Strokes
Ocean lessons and Bodysurfing Lessons are Available
Kayaking Instruction
Call for the Swimming Schedule & Rates Summer 2011
Please Text me or Call my Cell Phone 516-381-7697 during the day. Emails to my office (Main email address): gwavefit@optonline.net Emails only to my cell phone (texts to my cell work better): 5163817697@mms.att.net
Please send important emails my office, first.
My Optimum Online Email gwavefit@optonline.net is online! I only read emails morning, evening and sometimes lunchtime. Please also text or call me on my cell @516-381-7697 and leave a message, as I spend alot of time underwater. Messages can come in "broken" on my cell so texts work better. Also, leave a message at my office, 631-725-1458, which I check evenings.
New: Fitness Training and Weight Loss Clinic For Patients of Manual & Sports Physical Therapy in their Sag Harbor office gym, just off Bay St. Mondays through Saturdays
Manual & Sports Physical Therapy Sag Harbor, NY Tel: 631-725-4450 www.spagnolipt.com
Teaching Swimming in The Hamptons for 30 years and Fitness Training in The Hamptons for 20 years...
Weather Note: Lessons are given when it rains as long as it is warm out and there is no thunder or lightning in the area. I always check the radar and carry a lightning detector to every lesson, which is quite accurate within 20 miles.
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Did your swimming instructor give up on you? Have you given up on swimming? I have been taking on this type of lesson for over 20 years. I will not give up on you, no matter how hard I have to work!
This is one of my adult students, learning to swim for the first time...
20 years of Ocean Lifeguarding...
All photos are copyrighted and private property of Richard Parker and "The Swimmimg Teacher" and may not be reproduced without written permission
Breastroke September 09
Breastroke September 09
Crawl/Freestyle September 09
Crawl/Freestyle September 09
Lifeguard Drill. Photos by Pam
Dr. Bob, Don and I, doing a three man yoke rescue.
In the first or second Mighty Hamptons Triathalon.
Swimming Friends...
Best friend, Stormy...
My Newfoundland, Sea Breeze....
Stormy, my nephews and me.
All photographs are property of the author and may not be reproduced without written permission.
Richard Parker has been teaching swimming since the early 1980's. He has developed his own unique method of teaching, The Parker Swimming Method, that reduces on the steps in learning to swim and has the result of making his students safer in the water. Richard comes to your pool from Montauk to Southampton. He also gives ocean swimming lessons. He was an ocean lifeguard for 20 years and he insists these skills are important to have before you learn to surf or enter the ocean environment! He was interviewed in an article in Newsday, last summer, about Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps.
News Updates:
2010
Benchmark: September 2010: Is the beginning of my eleventh year of fitness training with Norma in Montauk! She does a boxing workout, kickboxing, jumping rope, speedbag and weight training, three days a week, 51 weeks a year. She has never missed more than one week of training in nine years! She is on vacation for one week a year.
Fitness for Overweight individuals and Fitness for Older adults.
Outdoor Swimming lessons go into the beginning of October and start in May !
Get updated on your new strokes this summer If you do not see a price you are comfortable with..please ask! Memorial Day through mid October
Personal Trainer The Swimming Teacher Kayaking Instructor
Richard B. Parker, B.A., M.S.
ACE Certified and Insured
My Extended Swimming Family
Swimming in Sag Harbor,. My brother, John, on the left, became one of the first Water Safety Instructors for East Hampton Town. The "frogman" in the air on the right is me. Photo by my dad. taken from his Boston Whaler.
Think Summer!
Copyright Richard Parker. All photographs are property of the author and may not be reproduced without permission.
Professional Gym equipment for sale:
See Gym Equipment page
Excellent condition
Summer .......
See you May 2011 ! Click on Swimming Lesson page above.
See you this Summer!
My father in Medical School and U.S. Army, 1944
Capt. John W. Parker, Jr, MD, USAF Surgeon, Marthas Vineyard, Mass. 1948
Memorial
This website is dedicated to my father, Dr. John Walter Parker, Jr., M.D., Surgeon and U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force veteran.
He taught himself how to swim, from a book. He started teaching me how to swim when I was 1 year old, in Sag Harbor/Shelter Island Sound. He taught me how to sail in our sailboat "Dancer." He taught us to skindive and was one of the first to spearfish in Shinnecock, with skindiving equipment. He gave me my first rowboat/skiff, for my birthday, when I was 9 years old. I named it the "Seawolf." I "borrowed" the Evenrude 3 1/2 horse auxilliary trolling engine off the family boat, to power my Seawolf when fishing.
My father taught me weight training on his York Weights, when I was 11 years old. He grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
He took my brother John, my mother Theresa, and I, family fishing and exploring, Sag Harbor to Mystic, Connecticut, in a 15 ft. fiberglass boat. We fished from almost 400 foot deep waters in The Race, Shinnecock, Gardiners Bay, The Ruins, Plum Gut, and a couple of miles off Shagwong Reef and Montauk Point in our original 16 1/2 foot, 1960's Boston Whaler.
He left, for my older brother John and myself, a legacy of the sea that persists to this day.
My older brother, John (who is now an attorney/race car driver and owns a vintage car business), ran the boat to the Cedar Point Lighthouse (and helped cut the first road to the lighthouse), was one of the first Red CrossWater Safety Instructors for East Hampton Town, surfed Ditch Plains in the 60's and now, raced sailboats, is a SCUBA Diver and still has our 1960's Boston Whaler.
My brother and I went off shore SCUBA Diving in a 15 foot fiberglass boat off The Florida Keys in 1975.
I became a Suffolk County Civil Service Ocean Lifeguard for 20 years for Southampton Town. I became a surfcast fisherman, commercial clammer, surfer, PADI SCUBA Diver and Red Cross Water Safety Instructor. I became a Red Cross Kayaking Instructor and taught myself how to "Eskimo roll" from a video. I am now learning Saltwater Flyfishing.
I started teaching swimming 30 years ago just as my father and brother taught me.
I teach swimming.
I now plan to continue the life on the water, of which my father gave me my first view.
My father passed on....
November 11, 2006.
Richard Birnie Parker, B.A., M.S.
Alternate logo for GW fitness wear
In February 2011,
Get ready for Summer 2011!
Note: Start now. Do not wait for April. It takes 4 to 6 months to get started, a year or more to get to realistically, achieve your goals.
My brother, John, and friend sailing in our sailboat in Shelter Island Sound about 1958. Barcelona Point is on the right.
