Swim Lessons That Meet You Where You Are
STRIDE Aquatics brings certified, private swim instructors to your lesson for every swimmer — infants through adults, including swimmers with disabilities.
Every lesson is one-on-one and adaptive by design, not treated as a special case. Book your free trial lesson today — no obligation.
Swim Lessons For Every Age and Ability, Taught At Your Pool
Infants & Little Swimmers
Gentle, play-based introduction to the water for our youngest swimmers. Comfort and safety come first as we build the instincts every new swimmer needs, paced just for your child.
Kids & Teens
Whether your child is brand new to the water or already swimming, we build on what they can do — from water safety and basic strokes to confident, independent swimming.
Adults
It's never too late to learn. Many of our adult swimmers come to us having never felt safe in the water. Private, patient lessons paced entirely around you — no classroom, no judgment.
Adaptive & Special Needs
Adaptive instruction is our standard, not a special case. Our instructors work with swimmers with physical, cognitive, and sensory disabilities to build safety, confidence, and skill at their own pace.
Our Founder
In the water, everyone is the same.
STRIDE founder John Manison knows better than almost anyone how transformative swimming can be. An autoimmune disease left him wheelchair-bound through childhood, yet he competed in three sports in high school, including swimming — he is the only known paraplegic in the world to fully recover. As he put it: "Swimming is the single biggest reason I am where I am today, able to walk again."
After years on both sides of the swim-lesson world, John grew frustrated with how rigid most instruction was — every segment on a clock, no room for the instructor's judgment, no room for the swimmer. STRIDE is his answer: a swim school where the lesson is built around the individual, and adaptive instruction is the standard, not a special case.
How we teach
The STRIDE Method.
Music boosts memory and makes lessons fun, so we weave songs and guided play into every lesson and give each swimmer a degree of control over how it flows. Whether you're 6 months old or 60 years old, an anxious first-timer, or navigating a disability, the water meets you where you are.
Where we teach
North Hollywood & the Valley.
Our instructors bring everything needed for a safe, private lesson — no driving, no waiting. Proudly serving North Hollywood, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Burbank, and the greater San Fernando Valley.
Swimming should be for everyone.
STRIDE Aquatics is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Through our Adopt a Child program, donors fund three months of lessons that bring a child from our low-income waiting list to fully water-safe. 100% of every Adopt a Child gift goes straight to that child's lessons.