Text Me on 516-381-7697. Email me on Gwavefit@optonline.net. All Phases of Swimming Lessons. Water Exercise. Programs for All Overweight individuals who want to exercise in Private. Stress Management Exercise. Fitness For Seniors & Post Physical Therapy Rehab Exercise in your home or MSPT gym in Sag Harbor. Swimming & Exercising with Cancer. Swimming Instruction & Swimming Lessons for Adults and Children in your Heated Pool, Bay & Ocean. Water Exercise & Aerobics. Water Safety Instructor, Pool & Waterfront Lifeguard. ACE Certified Fitness Trainer. Water Survival & Lifeguard Training. Adult Swim Lessons Year-round. Swimming Exercises & Swim Stroke Instruction. Balance, Strength, Flexibility & Stress Reduction. Teaching in The Hamptons over 30 years.
Lessons can be given in the rain, but not during thunderstorms.
Lessons continue after Labor Day into Fall.
Adult lessons available year-round.
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!
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
Amagansett 2010
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 Special Education, LIU
Bachelors' Degree in Sociology
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 2012
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 emails to my office,
as well as calling.
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 For Patients of Manual & Sports Physical Therapy in their Sag Harbor office gym, just off Bay St. Mondays through Saturday Mornings
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!
20 years of Ocean Lifeguarding...
Lifeguard Drill. Photos by Pam
Dr. Bob, Don and I, doing a three man yoke rescue.
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
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:
2012
Benchmark: September 2012: Is the beginning of my thirteenth 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.
Summer .......
See you May 2012 ! Click on Swimming Lesson page above.
See you this Summer!
In September 2011,
Get ready for Summer 2012!
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.
