Swim School Chemistry (w/ Olympian Davis Tarwater)

So just a little timeout for the listeners.

You really learned pool chemistry as a swim school owner.

It's not like you did this a lot beforehand.

Is that correct?

It's not just that.

I mean, I might have been a little bit more cautious going into the entire business proposition had I actually known all the stuff I didn't know.

You know, I mean, I remember when we got our location open in Knoxville and the guy that built the pool was like, all right, here's your orientation.

I was like, I don't know how any of this stuff works.

We're not talking about, you know, just, you know, and I'd gone through, you know, national classes.

You know, so, I mean, I did what everyone told me I was supposed to do.

You know, it was like, man, this is real now.

You know, I got to manage this whole thing.

And so, yeah.

You know I I I didn't have any.

I've never taken a. I'm reading in my entire life.

I didn't work as a lifeguard.

I didn't, you know, I mean, so, and the

stakes are high because you've got a proprietary number of students and instructors in your water every single week.

And it's a lot and their health depends on that water being safe, clean, and clear.

And just to give the listeners a rundown, these are somewhere between 30,000 to 40,000 gallon pools.

You have four of them now.

Is that right? Yes, that's correct.

Okay.

So typically you got two to four skimmers in there.

You're running, I don't know the size of the filter, but it's, I'm going to compare it to a TR 140 from Pentair.