Swimming: Steps to Success is excellent as a course text or a self-instruction guide. Either way, this unique progression of skills will help swimmers get started quickly, make steady progress, practise in performance contexts, and correct problems as they develop. As readers climb the 24 steps on their way to swimming success, they'll benefit from superb illustrations depicting correct body positioning for learning all basic skills in swimming, excellent drills to help them quickly master the proper stroke to match swimming objectives - whether speed, ease, distance, or fun, summary checklists for evaluating proper technique, and suggestions for error detection and correction.