Mark Young is a well-established swimming instructor and creator of Swim-Teach.com, with over thirty years of experience teaching thousands of adults and children to swim. He has taken nervous, frightened children and adults who fear water and made them happy and confident swimmers. He has also turned many of those with average ability into advanced swimmers. His best-selling books include 'The Complete Beginners Guide to Swimming', 'The Swimming Strokes Book', 'How To Be a Swimming Teacher' and '101 Swimming Lesson Plans for Swimming Teachers', and they all draw on his experiences and countless successes to put together some simplistic methodical approaches to learning to swim and teaching swimming.