Moot Swimming Academy is a family business owned by Blikkies and Marié Nothnagel.  Moot Swimming Academy is situated in Capital Park, which is also known as the Arts Capital in the Moot area in Pretoria.  Marié has done various swimming courses with PSTCA, Swimrite and Swimdynamics.  She has more than 16 years’ experience of teaching babies, children and adults to swim.  She is also a Motor Therapist who incorporates many gross motor activities into the swimming lessons.  Blikkies has done the Swimrite and Swimdynamics course and has 4 years’ experience.  Our daughters, Chantelle and Chané received in-house training and have been coaching for many years. Chantelle also completed a Swimrite and Swimdynamics course and Chané did the Swimdynamics course.  We have a passion for sports and love to work with children.  It is most rewarding when children learn to relax in the water and progress starts to take place. We cannot emphasize enough the importance of swimming lessons for safety and as one of the best sports to address gross motor skills. It also improves and encourages family relations and bonding and is a great lot of fun.

Our Core Values:

  • We believe in always safety first, secondly the important fun element and lastly to teach someone how to swim. If beginners do not feel safe and comfortable and it is not fun, learning simply cannot take place.
  • To respect all learners’ fear of the water and help them to conquer the fear in an understanding, loving way. The result should be for them to love, respect and enjoy the water.

Our Mission:

  • To teach children and adults to love and respect the water through our gentle and fun methods of swim instruction.
  • To give more children the opportunity to learn to swim and to benefit thereof by providing a quality, affordable service.

We provide quality swimming lessons for babies, toddlers, pre-primary and primary school children as well as high school students and adults. We believe that each individual progress at different rates and at their own pace.  We respect and understand that each person is different and is treated as such. We make use of the most up to date swimming teaching techniques, along with strict safety practices.