Singapore’s 2027 public holidays from a swimming instructor’s side: busy teaching windows, MOM public holiday pay rules for employees, and tips for freelance coaches.

Teaching butterfly: build from the dolphin kick, add timing, then arms, then breathing. Who should not be taught it at all — and the shoulder injuries that come from teaching it wrong.

Teaching backstroke from the start: fix the head first, then body rotation, then arms. Why it rescues anxious learners and how to help swimmers stay straight and find the wall.

A Singapore swimming instructor explains what muscular endurance actually means in the pool, which muscles fail first by stroke, and how to train them with dryland and drill sets.

A Singapore swimming instructor breaks down which dryland strength exercises transfer to the pool, and which ones waste your time or wreck your shoulder.

Instructors teach freestyle backwards, arms first, because arms look like swimming. Here is the order that works and the faults it prevents.

Teaching breaststroke correctly: pull, breathe, kick, glide in sequence, a narrow whip kick to protect the knee, and when to stop a swimmer and refer to a physiotherapist.

A swimming instructor explains how to structure cardio sessions in the pool, what the three training zones actually mean for swimmers, and what to watch for when technique collapses under fatigue.

A warm up before swimming for instructors: five minutes of dynamic movement, a short water set, what to cut in a 30-minute lesson, and why stretches wait.