{"id":20,"date":"2023-10-14T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T02:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edswimming.com.au\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T05:37:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.edswimming.com.au\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to Emily Drummond Swimming or E.D.S for short. I have been a swimming teacher for 8 years and have received all my teaching qualifications through Austswim and Royal lifesaving Australia as well as completing a foundation course with Aquatic mentors and Deaf Children Australia. As well as being a fully qualified Austswim teacher, I am also a qualified Austswim assessor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little back story of E.D.S, I come from a swimming background however, I had to give up swimming in my early teens as I was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome or E.D.S for short. E.D.S is a connective tissue disorder that affects the skin, joints and blood vessels. I have type 3 E.D.S or H.E.D.S which is the hypermobility type, this means that I am extremely flexible and was constantly hurting myself as a child and a teen. As a teen I really wanted a job but because of my E.D.S I wasn\u2019t able to have a normal job because I couldn\u2019t sit down or stand up for a prolonged time without being in pain. With this being the case, I decided that I should look into becoming a swimming teacher, as it is low impact because it\u2019s in the water and I come from a swimming background. So, in 2016 I went and did my first Austswim course and the rest is history. Since then, I have acquired the rest of my Austswim qualifications (Infant and Preschool Aquatics, Teacher towards Competitive Strokes, Teacher of Adults and Teacher of Access and Inclusion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When coming up with the name Emily Drummond Swimming I realised that the initials E.D.S are exactly the same as the condition I have, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, which is the whole reason I became a swimming teacher in the first place! In regards to the zebra in my logo, I chose to have the zebra because it is the mascot for Ehlers Danos Syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n

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