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Professor Robert Strauss, (M. Ed.)
- International SwimFin Ambassador
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https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/698666829
Bio[]
Coach Strauss has dedicated his professional career to aquatic safety in, around and under water. Through Aquatic Education, Coach Robert has enriched the lives of babies, toddlers, school-age children, teens and adults, assisting them to discover how to be safer and stronger swimmers.
He was awarded the most prestigious accolade in the learn to swim industry, the Virginia Hunt Newman Award, by the International Swimming Hall of Fame, ISHOF and the NADI Water Drop, the most prestigious award in the swimming industry in South-America.
Robert and life partner, Jennie, founded swim gym in 1984, which is now one of the Top 50 Authorized Providers of the American Red Cross in Florida Chapter, which includes certification of water safety instructors and life guards, as well as the learn to swim program.
Coach Robert spends time travelling lecturing on the art and science of discovering how to swim sharing his experience.
Robert was the coach of Team USA to the Pan-Am Maccabi Games 1991 & 2007 and was appointed as head coach of Team USA to Mexico City, at the CDI Centro Deportivo Israelita.
His vision is for every person to have the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to SAFELY ENTER AND EXIT A BODY OF WATER.
His mission is to eradicate drowning from our communities, through education.
The objective is to assist all participants to discover swimming in order to find the joy and passion coupled to the benefits inherent to swimming in particular and water sports in general
From 1979 to present, Robert Strauss contributed to learn to swim and competitive swimming conferences around the globe: México, his country of birth, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Guatemala, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Peru, Canada, USA, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Iceland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hungary, Austria, China, Malaysia and Singapore; he is a well sought-after speaker; fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
Born in Mexico in 1952, a member of the Mexican national age group team from ’61 to ’67; a member of the Mexican Senior National Team from ’69 to’73, he represented Mexico in the Olympic Games in Munich ’72; Pan American Games ’71 in Cali, and Central American ’70 in Panama; World University Games in Turin, Italy in ’70 and in Moscow, Russia in ’73; He also represented Mexico in the World Maccabi Games in Israel ’69 & ’73.
In 1977 at the University of Miami, and earned a Master’s in Education with emphasis in Recreation Administration, Educational Psychology and Physiology.
Publications:
- November 2019: revised Discover Swimming copyright 2012 reprinted
- November 2018: Descubre la Natación is made available in hard copy
- June 2014: Discover Swimming is made available as an E-book
- January 2013: Descubre la Natación, un acercamiento con sentido común. E-book
- November 2011: Discover Swimming from A to… SWIM - A common sense approach.
- January 2007: DVD – Why Swim, If You Can Fly?! Re-recorded
- October 2003: DVD: My First 15 Months of Aquatic Life English and Spanish
- September 2000: VHS - Why Swim, If You Can Fly?! English and Spanish
- May 2000: Swim Teachers Handbook
To contact Coach Robert Strauss in order to bring an RS Swiminar into your facility write directly to: coachrs@swimgym.net
Join Robert on his regular podcasts on instagram by following @swim_gym