St Kilda Sea Baths Swim School

Dear Swim School Members

We are excited to see you all from Monday 6th November for your swimming lessons!

🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏻‍♂️ 💦

Dear Patrons,

🥳GREAT NEWS 🥳
Our Hydrotherapy Spa is NOW OPEN! We look forward to seeing you over the coming days for your recovery session with our new and improved Spa experience!

Please note our Yearly Pool, Spa & Steam Maintenance will commence from Monday 18th till Sunday 24th September.

We are excited about an even better experience in the amazing St Kilda seawater pool and spa.

From The Management Team at South Pacific Health Clubs

🏆WELL DONE LOUIS 🏆

After a hard 18 months of daily training in Melbourne and monthly weekend-long training camps in Brisbane, our Swim Instructor Louis and a handful of other Victorian representatives travelled to Montreal, Canada to represent Australia in the Underwater Rugby World 🌎 Championships. The competition saw nations from across the world competing in a round robin format spanning a week and a half. Australia’s 🇦🇺 previous best ranking was 9th overall, and they were ecstatic to come away this time with a result of 7th. With the Champions happening once every 4 years, we’re already pumped to get back in to training with our sights set on a better position in 2027.

For anyone curious (and confused!), underwater rugby is played completely underwater inside a 5m deep dive pool. The ball is between a baseball and a netball in size and is filled with water, so sinks very slowly in the water. Wearing a mask, snorkel and large stiff flippers, teams (6 in the water and 6 on the subbing bench per side) engage in full-contact play of tackling and passing to get the ball into the basket, which sits on the ground against the wall on each team’s side. Good play relies on multiple efforts (with your breath held) at depth, with no more than 2-3 breaths on the surface between efforts, for at least 90 seconds before heading to the subbing bench.

Louis, from the Team at South Pacific Health Clubs, we are thrilled to have you back and think you’re amazing for what you have achieved in underwater Rugby!

Good luck to all the participants in the Ironman 70.3 this Sunday 13th November.

Please note there are road closures from 5am - 12pm.

For more info on the road closure, please visit https://www.ironman.com/im703-melbourne-course

Dear Swim School Participants,

Congratulations to all Term 3 swimmers on your final week of lessons.

Our Aquatics facility is closed in week 1 of school holidays for maintenance but we reopen from Sunday 25th September so you can get free access to our pool in week 2 of holidays.

Term 4 commences Monday 3rd October. Keep an eye out for an email later this week!

To our wonderful St Kilda Sea baths swim school family,

Well done! We’re half way through Term 2 swimming lessons!

As we can feel the temperature is dropping, we want to give you some tips in preparation for the Winter season:

👩‍🏫👨🏻‍🏫 If your swimming legend is feeling the cold at their swimming lesson, then we suggest you try the following:

🌊 A swim cap to retain their body heat, even if the cap gets wet, it will keep heat in. Check out our awesome range next to our reception desk.

🐙 A bodysuit for babies or rash vest or wetsuit to retain their body heat. Remember to keep them moving in the water!

🐬A couple of towels, one to wrap them in when getting out and another to dry off with.

💦 A warm shower straight after the lesson.

🧣Warm clothing particularly singlet, socks and beanie that sits close to the skin and keeps their body heat in.

☕️ A nice warm drink at home. A hot chocolate as a treat for getting through their class. Herbal tea for the parents.

Looking forward to seeing you all on pool deck! 🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️

If you’ve read this till the end, come and collect a voucher for Beachcomber in celebration of our Open Week 🥳

Dear Swim School Families,

We are Ready and Excited to invite you back to our swimming lessons!

Term 4 Swim Lessons start back on Wednesday 10th November and will run for 6 weeks until Tuesday 21st December.

We have sent everyone an email today. If you did not receive it please email us at [email protected]

As per Government guidelines, all swim school members over the age of 16 years old and attending parents must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or provide evidence of a medical exemption. Please visit our COVID-19 page (https://www.southpacifichc.com.au/coronavirus/) on what to bring and be ready to show on entering our facility.

The Swim School Team can’t wait to see you all back and are ready to swim into Summer with you all!

Amy and Carmen
Team Aquatics St Kilda Sea Baths

We’re counting down the days until our pool re-opens and we can commence Term 3 Swim School!

To our wonderful St Kilda Sea Baths Swim School families,

We just wanted to reach out to you as we miss you!

We can't wait to see you all when the restrictions are lifted and we can commence Term 3 Swim school lessons.

While you’re all keeping well at home we thought to play some Olympic Games Trivia.

Are you ready for Tokyo Olympics 2020?! Countdown in on in less than 30 hours…

Comment below on the choice of lane to swim in? Let’s have a bit of fun! 🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏻‍♂️

From the Swim School Management Team

WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU BACK IN THE POOL!

We have closed for 21 days from close of business Thursday 27th of May, following government instructions. We anticipate re-opening as of usual staffed opening hours on Friday 18th of June. Please monitor the government announcements.

We thank you for your support during these circumstances and we look forward to seeing you all again very soon.

Stay safe and well during this time.

From your friendly Team @ South Pacific Health Clubs St Kilda