About Us

Our Mission & Teaching Philosophy

We believe that everyone benefits from swimming. Our mission is to instill in our students the confidence and self-reliance that comes with mastering swimming skills. We encourage the educational process through fun and positive reinforcement. We believe our students learn best in a relaxed, caring, nurturing and hygenic environment.

Meet Our Team

Joanne

Joanne is the founder of Aquabubs and an AUSTWIM certified swim instructor. She has been teaching for over a decade and started Aquabubs in 2015 with a small pool in a preschool. Within 5 years that grew to 2 centres with over 800 students. She is in charge of teacher training and business development.

Zarina

Zarina is the co-owner of Aquabubs. She was a competitive swimmer in her early teens and a mom of 3 young kids. She took up teaching swimming for babies and infants with Austswim after the birth of her first child, when she couldn’t find any classes for him. With her bubbly, vibrant personality her classes are a hit and she is in charge of operations.

Michael

Michael is our Head Coach who has spent the last decade working with babies, children, teens and adults in South East Asia. With a pedagogy that focuses on delivering fun and engaging lessons, that target the individual needs of each swimmer, Michael develops holistic swimmers with strong fundamentals that progress into technically good swimmers that understand the importance of hard work, accountability and teamwork.

Carol

Carol hails from Brazil and has been teaching swimming for 5 years now. She loves teaching babies and preschoolers and enjoys watching their confidence grow and helping them learn new skills. Her fun and vibrant personality makes her classes a hit with babies and children.

Aisyah

Aisyah hails from Perak originally and has travelled and lived in France and all over Malaysia. She has been teaching and coaching since 2017. She hopes to join a Masters Swimming Championship someday and try out open water swimming. She also has a big appetite for sandwiches, all types!

“No matter what I do or how much I struggle in my day to day life, I always find teaching so much fun and I want to be a better coach ”.

Nora

Nora is from Sungai Petani and has been teaching swimming for 2 years. With a MSTA certification in teaching children with disabilties, she specializes in teaching private classes to children with Autism. While not teaching swimming, her hobbies include reading and snorkelling.

Calvin

Calvin started swim coaching in high school when he was given the opportunity to be a voluntary swim coach for the junior squad. With his energetic personality it is not hard to see why the kids (and parents!) love his baby and learn to swim classes. He teaches spinning in his spare time and is also a master in rope skipping!

Hafiz

Hafiz is from Port Dickson and having grown up by the sea, he has always had a love for water. He took his AustSwim certification in 2018 and teaches the learn to swim classes.

“I love working with children and watching them grow as individuals through swimming. Helping them with their technique and watching them get satisfaction out of improving themselves is something I really enjoy"

Matthew

Matt is a swim teacher with over 10 years of experience and joined the Aquabubs team in 2020. He has a gentle and playful nature with the children and they really enjoy being in his class. He finds it extremely rewarding to see the kids confidence and ability increase while having fun.

Joey

Joey is our baby swim teacher at United Point. She was a national diver and is also a certified diving coach and is currently studying for her degreee in Physical Education. Joey loves babies and children and you will see her happily singing and teaching parents and their infants. She ensures all her students experience safe and fun swimming lessons with her patience and loving personality.

Support Team

Mogana

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Rani

FRONT DESK

Ika

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