{"id":2095,"date":"2023-08-16T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2023-08-16T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:02:10","slug":"leahi-swim-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/leahi-swim-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Keep Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you operate the longest-running swim school in the islands, you have to go with the flow at times. Mother-and-son duo Lori and Ben Komer of L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School have done just that for five decades, keeping lessons fresh for students while looking oh, so cool.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School owners Ben and Lori Komer at the 50th anniversary celebration earlier this summer.
PHOTOS COURTESY L\u0112\u2018AHI SWIM SCHOOL<\/p><\/div>\n

No matter how blue life may get, the best thing to do is to stay positive and keep moving forward. Well, that\u2019s Dory\u2019s philosophy, anyway. When the current isn\u2019t going in her direction, the Finding Nemo <\/em>character says to \u201cjust keep swimming\u201d as a reminder to never give up.<\/p>\n

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L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School founder Lori Komer teaches students how to swim in the \u201970s.<\/p><\/div>\n

Coincidentally, mother and son Lori and Ben Komer have adopted the same belief \u2014 only a few decades before the cartoon blue tang came along.<\/p>\n

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Now with multiple locations, the swim school started in a quaint pool in Honolulu.<\/p><\/div>\n

The \u2018ohana who own and operate L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School, the largest and longest-running swim school in the state, are celebrating quite the feat this year: 50 years in business. The school prevailed through myriad challenges \u2014 staffing shortages, relocations and pandemic shutdowns, to name a few \u2014 but has remained a reliable resource residents of all ages can count on for their swimming lesson needs.<\/p>\n

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Now with multiple locations, the swim school started in a quaint pool in Honolulu.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of mind blowing because it feels fresh. You don\u2019t feel the 50 years,\u201d says Lori, who founded the school in 1973. \u201cWhat I loved about working is that every day was different. There was not one two days that were boring or the same old, same old. Whenever I had a class graduate, I would get a little sad because I really connected with the students and their moms and dads. It\u2019s more than just getting the kids in the pool, it really is an \u2018ohana.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Back in the day, Lori, who nowadays only teaches students who call her grandma, took a water safety instructor class for fun during her freshman year of college. To pass the course, she had to teach five children how to swim. This was in California, where the water was chilly and the kids were timid, but her calm and sunny disposition won them over, and before any of them knew it, the youngins were comfortably \u2014 and skillfully \u2014 kicking and splashing in no time.<\/p>\n

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The O\u2018ahu native and natural aquaphile realized she had a knack for it and wondered if her ideal career need not a degree, but only a body of water and a good attitude. With her loved ones\u2019 encouragement, she established L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy love of teaching and children were married into one great business and lifelong dream,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

At first, it was just Lori in a compact, above-ground pool housed at La Pietra \u2013 Hawai\u2018i School for Girls. But as enrollment numbers grew, so did her payroll. Not long after, Ben was born, which meant she had a son, employee, prodigy and successor all in one.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf your last name is Komer, you\u2019re going to be working for the swim school at some point in your life,\u201d says Ben, who\u2019s interrupted by Lori shouting, \u201cWhether you like it or not!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up, all I knew was the swim school,\u201d he continues with a chuckle. \u201cI started working when I was 10 as the bus boy. We had a school bus that would pick up preschoolers around Honolulu, and I was on the bus checking them in, buckling them in \u2014 and I wasn\u2019t even getting paid. Then, I started teaching at 14 \u2014 and getting paid at 15 \u2014 and it\u2019s just what you did. I got good at it really fast because I had been around the swim school my whole life. I was born and raised there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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History has a way of repeating itself because while Ben was away at college for art and psychology, it dawned on him that his destiny, too, lay in the pool \u2014 an epiphany similar to his mother when she was the same age.<\/p>\n

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Following in her footsteps \u2014 or, rather, her swim strokes \u2014 Ben took on the leadership role in his early 20s and began transforming the school into what it is today \u2014 a year-round swim lesson utopia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Lori started it, it was only a summertime gig,\u201d says Ben. \u201cI knew that if I wanted to make a living here in Hawai\u2018i, I would need to expand the business. One of the things we started to do slowly was expand to the weekdays.\u201d<\/p>\n

For five years, Ben hustled in and out of the water, often working from dawn to dusk to keep the business afloat. Given that most of the swim instructors were high school and college students, it was \u2014 and still is \u2014 difficult to find employees to work Mondays through Fridays. Eventually, he found a groove and the school was thriving with 100 employees teaching 2,500 students weekly at three locations \u2014 then the pandemic happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter COVID, we took a big hit,\u201d says Ben. \u201cWe lost one location completely. When we returned, we went from 61 employees to 17. We\u2019re still clawing back from that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good thing is that our reputation has always preceded us. We don\u2019t have a problem getting clients, we just have a problem with getting staff,\u201d he says, adding that employees are meticulously trained for about six months to meet the school\u2019s high safety standards. \u201cWe\u2019re growing again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another facet to L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School\u2019s success may be its understanding that students are at different levels \u2014 and that\u2019s OK. There are toddlers who can swim across the pool, 9-year-olds who are afraid of putting their faces in the water, and adults who are dipping their toe in the literal and proverbial waters for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to gain trust with them and go at their own pace,\u201d says Ben. \u201cWhen you do that it\u2019s going to be easier because they will accept and absorb the skills better. Lori has based all of our teaching on that \u2014 you got to have fun, be nice and have the aloha spirit, the Hawaiian-style of teaching. That\u2019s always been a constant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever we interview people \u2026 we don\u2019t even care if you\u2019re a good swimmer because we can teach you how to swim,\u201d he adds. \u201cI want to see if you\u2019re a good person; if you have a big heart; if you like kids. That\u2019s been really working for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

For him, it\u2019s paramount to have dedicated and well-trained instructors because they aren\u2019t just preparing kids to swim in a pool. They\u2019re teaching future surfers, paddleboarders, divers, fishermen and -women, sailors and beachgoers a skill that could potentially save their lives one day. And given data from the state Department of Health that drownings are the fifth leading cause of fatal injuries among Hawai\u2018i residents and the leading cause of injury mortality among keiki 1-4 years old, L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School does not take it lightly.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of these deaths could be prevented if the child knew how to swim,\u201d says Ben. \u201cWe live in Hawai\u2018i \u2014 this is the best place for any and all water sports \u2026 and the common denominator is that you have to know how to swim.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t learn how to swim on the internet and you can\u2019t read a book, you need to be in the water, getting instructions from somebody helping you because it can be very dangerous,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Beyond teaching students, L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School has prided itself on teaching the leaders of tomorrow about what it takes it be a good employee. Instructors are usually between the ages of 16 and 22 years old, and, for most, this is their first job. The Komers foster a family-like environment (they cook lunch on the weekends and provide so many snacks the break room resembles a grocery store aisle), while also encouraging traits like responsibility, honesty and reliability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s usually everybody\u2019s first job to be a lifeguard or swim teacher,\u201d says Lori. \u201cWe\u2019ve had employees work for us who are now pilots, lawyers, dentists and veterinarians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anna Koethe, who\u2019s currently director, strategic communications at HMSA, can attest to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI needed a job after high school. I walked into L\u0113\u2018ahi and asked if I could work there. I had an interview a couple weeks later with Auntie Lori and it changed my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love L\u0113\u2018ahi so much,\u201d continues Koethe. \u201cIt holds a very special place in my heart. I grew up there, I met lifelong friends there and I learned so many valuable skills. I just love the water and grew up loving the water, and to be able to share a piece of myself with my students meant so much to me. I wish I could still teach, but I have a full-time job. I appreciate that L\u0113\u2018ahi will always be there for me. I\u2019m just so grateful for the environment and special place that Auntie Lori and Ben created that\u2019s one of a kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Komers know it\u2019s no small accomplishment to stand the test of time, which is why they\u2019re evermore proud their small, family-run business is swimming along just fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve only been around for 44 of those 50 years, but it never occurred to me like, \u2018Now we\u2019ve made it.\u2019 It\u2019s just another year and it\u2019s so much fun to be at the swim school to do this job,\u201d says Ben. \u201cI\u2019ve said this ad nauseam, but my mom has created a summer job that I can have year-round for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

L\u0113\u2018ahi Swim School operates at Momilani Community Center in Pearl City and Saint Francis School in M\u0101noa. For more information, go online to leahiswimschool.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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