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TV, Media, Talks, Awards, Events 2008

 

International Swimming Hall of Fame Honoree Week-end 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Jose Fontanelli of Sao Paolo, Brazil, the 2008 Newman award winner, for compassionate and gentle baby swimming, May 10, 2008.

 

Rob McKay and Jose Fontanelli posing with hero Jacques Cousteau at the International Swimming Hall of Fame 2008 Award Ceremonies in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

 

 

 

 

TV, Media, Talks, Awards, Events 2007

 

 

Rob and Kathy in St. Petersburg, Florida, with friend the forever young Dr. Don Ardell, world age group triathlon champion and global speaker and author on wellness and health.

 

 

Kathy presenting talk at World Aquatic Baby Congress Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, Oct. 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Toddler Magazine     Water Smarts            Summer Issue  2007

 How to help your toddler to get comfortable in the water. With Rob and Kathy McKay.

 

 

 

 

 

WABC 2007 St Petersburg Florida USA St. Petersburg, Florida  World Aquatic Babies Congress World Aquatic Babies & Children

 

9th International WABC educational conference - for leading learn-to-swim teachers and program directors, October 21, 22, & 23, 2007

 

Monday  22 October  2007

4:15-5:00

Panel Presentation
by Newman Award Winners

 

       

 Newman Award Winners: Rob McKay, Terje Stakset, Yoko Yagishita

Rob McKay - United States
Co-Owner of Lifestyle Swim School
Boca Raton, Fla. USA
Co Author: Learn to Swim (book); Diaper Dolphins I & II  (dvds) and
The Experts' Guide to the Baby Years (book - co-author of chapter on baby swimming)

Recipient of the Inaugural Virginia Hunt Newman Award in 2004.  His 'gentle journey' philosophy and methods adopted widely in the US and around the world for babies and young children in developing aquatic skill and the joy for the water.

 


 
Terje Stakset - Norway
A Very Gentle Start and Superman

 

Manager of the Norwegian Lifesaving Federation in Oslo & Baerum, Norway
Author: The Truthful Face of Baby Swim and How to Teach Young Children to Swim (dvds)

Recipient of the Virginia Hunt Newman Award 2006.  Second generation swim teacher. He has been an instructor in swimming and life saving for 27 years, and a teacher of baby swimming for 16 years. Moreover, he trains instructors in swimming, baby swimming, lifesaving, CPR and first aid.

 

Yoko Yagshita Yoko Yagishita-Japan
Director of Swimming for club openings for the Tipness clubs

Recipient of the 2007 Virginia Hunt Newman Award. She has revamped or created baby swim programs in over five cities and in doing has trained over 500 teachers.

Combined the best of Western technique with Eastern to make a culture and community of nurture, joy and fun for mothers, fathers and their babies.  Scheduled to open program in the Tokyo National Gymnasium.  

 

 

Tuesday  23 October  2007

 

8:45-9:30

Presentation
followed by
discussion             
St Peter Pier looking back at downtown waterfront

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy McKay- United States
Co-Owner of Lifestyle Swim School
Boca Raton, Fla. USA
Co Author:
Learn to Swim (book)
Diaper Dolphins I & II  (dvd)
The Experts' Guide to the Baby Years - (co-author of the book's chapter on baby swimming)   

Www.BabySwimming.com - The Gentle Journey is one of the most viewed and linked-to baby swimming sites on the Internet. In the pool teaching and learning and now sharing her experience and techniques from the highly renowned Lifestyle Swim School program. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fitness Magazine August 2007   Fitness Magazine, Mind, Body, Spirit          August 2007 issue

 

Family fitness make-over page 94. Age and Activity  3 to 18 months. Rob and Kathy McKay

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Zealand Mountain Ranges

 

 

 

New Zealand  Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association of New Zealand (NZSCAT)  May 24, 25, 26, 2007

Wellington, New Zealand, NZSCAT conference, Rob McKay international guest speaker. Also conducted baby swimming workshop.

  

Brett Naylor, President of the New Zealand Swim Coaches and Teachers Association with Rob McKay  on Top of the Mountain Reserve several thousand feet STRAIGHT up over Christchurch, NZ.  Rob with Kiwi friend in Queenstown, New Zealand at the wharf.

 

 

Rob McKay New Zeland in water demonstation

Rob McKay conducting an in water demonstration baby swim class to an audience of teachers and swim school owners, at Swim City in Wellington, New Zealand

 

Mystical Queenstown on Lake Wakatipu with the Remarkables mountain range as the backdrop, South Island,  New Zealand.

 

 

 

International Swimming Hall of Fame Honoree Week-end    

Fort Lauderdale, Florida,  May 11-12, 2007

Rob, Kathy, Heather and Brianne McKay were honored to attend the Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday evening. Rob and Steve Graves (president of  the World Aquatic and Babies and Childrens Congress) presented Tokyo's Yoko Yagishita with this years Virginia Hunt Newman award. For background on the award see the Hall of Fame paragraph below. (May 8th, 2004)

 

Steve Graves President of WABC, Yoko Yagishita and Rob Rob with Jim Ellis who's life is portrayed in  the movie Pride

 

Olympic Champion Amy Van Dyken, Yoko and Rob

 

 

 

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