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 AquaSummit

18-19 October 2025

Together we inspire, innovate, collaborate, fostering a vibrant community.

Gunyama Park Aquatic & Recreation Centre

17 Zetland Avenue, Zetland, Sydney

 What you can expect at AquaSummit

  • Enhanced Knowledge: Gain insights from leading presenters sharing the latest trends, techniques and research in water-based exercise.

  • Masterclasses: Effective aqua professionals understand hydrodynamic principles for optimal water exercise. The pool is our learning environment and presenters purposefully deliver sessions that facilitate exploration and experience to enhance aqua instructor techniques

  • Networking Opportunities: Connect with a diverse community of professionals, sharing experiences and building valuable relationships in the aquatic fitness industry.

  • Innovative Strategies: Learn about innovative approaches to aquatic fitness and how to apply them effectively in your own classes or training programs.

  • Personal and Professional Development: Regardless of your aqua and life experience, AquaSummit sessions provide content, skills and activities that encourage viewing topics from varied perspectives.  Adopt a mindset primed for self-development and industry alignment.  We look forward to growth on all levels. 

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AquaSummit Presenters & Sessions

Quick Flips

No class ever goes exactly as planned—but the best instructors know how to think fast, adapt, and keep things running smoothly. This session is all about staying in control when the unexpected happens, from last-minute tech failures to environmental changes and equipment challenges.
You'll learn practical, quick-thinking strategies to handle:
• Missing or malfunctioning microphones—master non-verbal cueing with ease.
• Shifts in water temperature, depth, or pool space—adjust your approach on the spot.
• Equipment issues—creative solutions for when things don’t go as expected.
• Managing energy and mindset—turning potential disruptions into teaching strengths.
This session is interactive, engaging, and packed with real-world tips to boost your confidence and problem-solving skills. It’s the perfect way to kick off the event—helping you step into the next two days with a flexible mindset and the ability to handle anything that comes your way.

May the Force (Water) Be Ever in Your Favour

 

Unlock the Power of Water and join in for a session exploring the principles and forces affecting movement in water. Rediscover how you can use buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, and resistance - water’s unique properties, to enhance fitness, and mobility, all while changing the way you think about movement in water and making it fun.

Maximising Efficiency in Class Preparation: Designing Four Classes from One Plan

As aqua instructors we juggle multiple responsibilities family, work, social commitments, and more plus ensuring our classes are well-prepared and engaging for our participants. Whether you teach full-time or part-time, class planning is a significant time investment. Variables such as water depth, understanding participant needs and available equipment, every detail impacts the construction of an effective aqua class.
This session will introduce a streamlined approach to class preparation, allowing you to create four adaptable class plans from a single framework. Learn how to efficiently tailor your sessions to different participant abilities, different class types, and facility resources saving you time while delivering high-quality aqua classes.

The Deep Water Dynamic - Unleash the power of Deep Water Fitness.

This interactive session will highlight the unique benefits of deep water classes and how they differ from the shallow end. Learn how to design dynamic and consistent classes that incorporate cardio, strength and core stability training. Participate in discussions on the use of equipment, share insights on effective technical cueing and explore strategies for adapting exercises that cater to all fitness levels. 

Mastering Modifications

A group exercise class is a group of individuals with different abilities, needs and limitations. Providing modifications to suit is vital for our aqua participants, but could we be doing it better, or take a fresh approach?

Alongside considering conditions, we’ll explore positive language and the practice of providing options and modifications to suit. Let’s take a look at how we can empower our participants to make great choices for themselves, at the same time enhancing a powerful and progressive attitude and an exceptional aqua experience.

WaveForce Circuits: Rhythm, Power & Resistance

Get ready to amplify your strength and endurance in WaveForce Circuits: Rhythm, Power & Resistance! This high-energy, circuit-style class uses the dynamic power of Acquapole® Liquid Gloves, Liquid Stars, and SAF Aqua Drums Vibes® to push your body to new limits. Exploit the water’s resistance for a total-body workout that combines strength, cardio conditioning, and fun—using speed, force, power, intensity, drag, levers, and rhythmic drumming!
Customise your circuit workouts with these unique tools to intensify any fitness regimen. Whether you're drumming, punching, or enhancing your muscular endurance, every move challenges your body and boosts performance. Get ready to experience a one-of-a-kind, energising aqua fitness adventure that’s as fun as it is effective!

Change is Good: Creative Pool Formations

Are you looking for new ways to sustain participants’ engagement and energy during class, making sure their eyes are on you and not the clock? Enter the world of fun and creative formations!  In this masterclass, discover how formations such as circle formation, partner work, four-walls (and more) can add variety, boost interaction, and create a whole new class experience. 

Deep To the Core Experience

The power of deep water training with just one dumbbell. This session uses the dumbbell as both a buoyancy and resistance tool, delivering a dynamic challenge for your cardiovascular fitness and core strength. Marietta will guide you through innovative movement patterns and deep water core exercises, showcasing creative ways to maximize a single piece of equipment. If you're looking for a high-impact workout without the need for multiple props, this session is for you.

Mastering Aqua Fitness: Preparation is everything

In this masterclass, I’ll show you how the use of science-grounded choreography mixed with effective preparation can
take your Aqua Fitness instruction and member experiences to new heights! You’ll leave this session understanding
how important it is to be fully prepared while leaving you to connect with the music, the movement and the members -
see how important it is to be fully engaged with the instructor choreography and music and find your way to bring your
unique instructor personality through.

This masterclass is designed to show you why preparation is essential, taking time to prior to every class then
refreshing again minutes before the class so you can memorise moves and scripting queues, learning the music to
pick up on when a song changes or moves change. You’ll feel confident and teach effectively leaving you free to build
connections with members.

 

The Pool Gym

 Find out how to transform functional land-based group workouts into fresh water workouts. In this session we investigate various fitness formats, think circuits, waves and ladders. Boring? Think again! We will explore what can be successful, why exercise selection counts and how to run these type of classes successfully (hint: it is not just about the exercises). All whilst focussing on improving strength and cardiovascular fitness in the safe yet incredibly efficient water environment. Less risk, more challenge!
Session Outcomes
o Gain a thorough understanding of how to modify compound and functional land-based moves to the pool (shallow water);
o Understand how exercise selection and intensity are crucial in delivering balanced all body functional workouts to the general public;
o Walk away with ready to use aqua fitness workout plans.

The Art of Aqua Illusion - Teach Like a Magician

Great instructors don’t just teach—they captivate, creating the illusion of endless energy, effortless movement, and seamless control. But behind every "magic trick" is technique, practise, and smart strategy. This session creates a space to share trade secrets on how to sustain energy, protect our bodies, and manage larger groups. It also covers strategies for teaching while dealing with an injury, medical condition, or a challenging day.

Through rehearsal, practical methods, and mindset shifts, gain practical methods to customise movements, improving endurance, and embracing different ways to exercise in water and teach on pool deck efficiently. Take this chance to step back and review what you never have time for—refining just one thing to make teaching easier. Guided by JSP, an experienced instructor, explore your own learning practices to sustain a long, successful career in the aqua industry while staying true to your style.

Staying Creative After 30 years in the Industry

After three decades of teaching Aqua classes, it’s easy to feel like you’ve seen it all. But the key to lasting creativity is finding new ways to stay energized, inspired, and engaged—not just for yourself, but for your participants too. In this session, we’ll explore practical strategies and mindset shifts to keep the passion alive in your Aqua classes, even after 30 years of teaching.

You’ll hear about the power of evolving your routines to stay fresh, the importance of connecting with your students beyond just the workout, and how to reignite your own excitement through continual learning and self-care.

From Ripples to Waves: Water-Based Exercise in People with Cardiac and Respiratory Conditions

Cardiovascular exercise is vitally important for people with chronic cardiac and respiratory conditions to manage their symptoms, prevent health deterioration, and optimise their physical performance. But when breathlessness is the main symptom, the idea of making this population more breathless with exercise seems counterintuitive, particularly because when you can’t breathe, nothing else matters!

In this session, respiratory specialist physiotherapist Renae McNamara will explore the evidence, challenges, and benefits of water-based exercise, and consider the effect of immersion and hydrostatic pressure on people with these conditions.
You’ll gain the understanding, strategies and confidence to work with this population in the water, from rehabilitation settings through to community aqua fitness groups.

Strength by Drag Resistance

To maximise results with drag resistance equipment, proper technique and programming are essential. In this masterclass, Hydrorevolution Master Trainer/s will guide you through a technically focused session that offers safe and effective strength training benefits for
all levels. Experience aquatic equipment designed to enhance strength and endurance with targeted progressions, adaptable to various fitness levels. Discover how incorporating drag resistance could potentially attract new participants, and diversify your aqua fitness timetable. Join us for a session that blends technical precision with practical strategies to drive performance and engagement in aqua fitness.

Unique Isolation

This innovative concept is meticulously crafted to enhance strength on your non-dominant side, addressing the natural inclination we all favour one side of our bodies. Experience the benefits to working one side of the body as well as exercise ideas using resistance equipment. Brooke will also teach you fun tips and tricks to make your class comfortable isolating their non-dominant side.

It’s a Wrap – Let’s Have a Pool Party!

 

We’re wrapping up a day of learning and movement with an Aqua Alliance Pool Party—but don’t be fooled, your body will still get a solid workout! Themed classes like this aren’t just about fun; they bring energy, boost engagement, and fresh ideas to your own sessions.

Most of you have instructed themed workouts before, but now, we want you to feel the full experience—the music, the movement, the atmosphere. How much fun is too much? And how much is just right?

We set the scene, you bring the energy, and together we celebrate, and soak up the best of the day!

Let’s make a splash!

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