Our Process

Personalized Approach

Little Penguins understands that every child is unique and provides bespoke instruction for all ages and ability levels. Instructors specialize in recognizing individual strengths and areas for growth.

Lessons are tailored to each child’s age, comfort level, and goals, ensuring steady progress while building trust, confidence, and a genuine love of the water.

Fundamental Techniques

Building strong swimmers begins with core water skills such as submersion, breath control, balance, and propulsion. We emphasize essential safety skills like floating, environmental awareness, and self-rescue, preparing children to respond calmly and safely in unexpected situations.

Competitive Skills

For developing and competitive swimmers, instruction refines stroke technique, endurance, starts, turns, and treading. A focus on efficient movement and pushing past personal limits helps swimmers progress confidently in training, competition, and personal achievement.

Emotional Resilience

Beyond physical skill, swimming builds lasting confidence. Through progressive challenges, lessons encourage mindfulness, patience, courage, and self-trust, helping children overcome fear and frustration to develop a calm, resilient relationship between themselves and the water.

Meet Coach Jeremy

Jeremy is a Los Angeles–based swim instructor with over 10 years of teaching experience. He learned to swim in southeast Michigan, where he competed at the club level, captained his high school varsity swim team his senior year, and worked as a certified lifeguard.

As an Eagle Scout, he also taught the swimming and lifeguarding merit badges for Boy Scout Troop 755. Jeremy continued teaching and lifeguarding throughout college before moving to Los Angeles in 2018. Based in Hollywood, he has been offering private swim lessons across the LA area since 2024.

Offering personalized swim lessons

for all ages and all abilities