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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.
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
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4:15-5:00 |
Panel
Presentation
by Newman Award Winners
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Newman Award Winners: Rob McKay, Terje Stakset,
Yoko Yagishita
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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Tuesday 23 October 2007
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8:45-9:30 |
Presentation
followed by
discussion
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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.
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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
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.
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| 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 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)
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| 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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