Private Swim Lessons with Karla Mlachak

The summer of 2017 marked the beginning of my private swimming lesson program. I started with 3 families, with big sisters as my first students, and then the baby sister, and in 2024, I finally had the chance to help the parents become swimmers, too. How amazing is it to bring the joy of swimming to an entire family? What an incredible journey we've all shared. I began and ended with the same family and taught hundreds more along the way. We are all

The swimmer for life rules are stated that someone has to take you for ice cream when you first learn to go completely under the water. An amazing and huge heaping of ice cream joy to Master Oliver!!!!! 2 times, flying through the air and then going under on the second verse of ring around the rosy. “Cows in the meadow, eating buttercups, thunder, lightning, we all POP UP!

My joy for the ocean and water started when I was an infant, when my parents left Ohio and became expats. My dad wanted to live on the ocean and snorkel, and my Mom was game for an adventure. I grew up digging in the sand with her and doing dolphin rides through the ocean with him.
Let’s all play and splash, go under, do water handstands and cannonballs. Let’s have the best time in the water, and show our young ones what an amazing relationship is awaiting them.