With her own swimming academy, Nisha and a team of instructors hold sessions for toddlers, kids, adults and senior citizens in nine pools throughout Bengaluru.
Karnataka News: When Olympic swimmer Nisha Millet was five years old, she was almost turned away from swimming for life. At a family friend’s home, she was accidentally pushed into a small fish pond. Though she was pulled out almost immediately, the traumatising incident stayed with her.
“I would literally stay away from pools,” Nisha tells TNM.
It wasn’t until a few years later that Nisha finally started to love the water. Under the tutelage of her father, she slowly started to appreciate swimming. He wouldn’t force her to swim or push her into the pool when she wasn’t ready. Instead, he made a game out of it — dropping coins into the water for her to retrieve, teaching her to use a kickboard.
Her father’s patient guidance, coupled with elements of fun, is what still informs Nisha’s teaching style today.
Before Nisha started learning swimming from her father, she tried taking swimming classes in Bengaluru. But her instructor neither attempted to make her comfortable in the water nor introduced fun activities or games into the sessions. As with so many swimming classes, Nisha was just pushed straight into the deep end.
“By the end of 10 to 15 days, I had learned nothing. That could have really put me off,” she recalls….read more about it
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