Elevate Pool Pros Presents
Elevate’s Pool Hydraulics 101
The most comprehensive foundational hydraulics course in the pool industry — built for designers, builders, engineers, and technicians who want to finally understand why every system works the way it does.
June
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Four nights
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One Transformation
Sponsored By
Swimming Pool
Hydraulics 101
The pool industry runs on legacy habits, rule-of-thumb guessing, and handed-down misinformation.
It ends here.
Pool Hydraulics 101 gives you the clean, logical, engineering-backed foundation to design, build, and diagnose pool systems with real confidence — and the tools to do it professionally from day one.
Everything about the class
The program at a glance
Live. Recorded.
Yours for a year.
Hydraulics 101 isn't a pre-recorded course you forget you bought. It's a live, interactive virtual experience — taught Tuesday and Thursday nights for the first two weeks June — where you show up, engage, ask real questions, and leave each session better than when you arrived.
Every session is recorded in full. Miss a night? No problem. Need to revisit a concept three months later before a big project? It's there. Your access continues for a full year after the final lesson — so the education works on your schedule, not the other way around.
2 - 2.5
Hours per Session, Tue & Thu Evenings
4
Live Nights of Instruction
1
Year Full Replay Access Included
$950
Investment
Learning Outcomes
What You will
Be able to do.
Calculate total water volume for any pool, spa, fountain, or surge basin
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Calculate weir overflow rates for vanishing edges, bubblers, scuppers, laminar jets & waterfalls
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Properly size PVC pipe for any flow condition — understanding velocity limits and friction loss
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Design suction, equipment pad, wall return, and floor return circulation systems
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Read pump curves and equipment spec sheets with professional confidence
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Determine correct filtration turnover rates and translate them into GPM design flow
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Develop a complete schematic plumbing system design with all pump systems identified
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Calculate Total Dynamic Head (TDH) and select the right size pump for any application
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Apply Venturi principles to understand spa jets, bubblers, and foundation features
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Select, locate, and specify valves and flow control devices for any hydraulic application
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Who should attend
Built for every professional
Who touches a pool
No prior engineering background required. This course starts at the very beginning and builds progressively — every lesson is designed to be clear, practical, and immediately applicable.
Experienced Pros Filling the Gaps
Engineers new to pool systems
Pool Builders & Contractors
Industry Newcomers
Pool Designers & Architects
Field Technicians
Sales Reps
Service Pros
What your peers are saying:
“I am a 4th generation pool builder, and we have been doing things the same way for decades. Until now. The skills I have learned through Elevate have given me the confidence to build different.”
“Call me the Elevate student #1. Working with and learning from Jason and Chad has transformed my projects... and taken our projects to a completely new level.”
“I cannot learn enough! I am new to the industry and starting my own company has been terrifying. The personal coaching that and Jason have given me....”
“Taking design classes with Jason has been both enlightening and entertaining. He teaches fundamental design principles in a fun and engaging way that inspires....”
Your Instructors
ASLA — American Society of Landscape Architects
IWI — International Watershape Institute
CBDP Master — Certified Building Design Professional
Licensed Landscape Architect
Patented Design Process
Jason
Brownlee
Jason Brownlee isn't teaching from a textbook. He's teaching from hundreds of completed projects — pools, outdoor living spaces, and landscape environments designed for clients across the country and around the world.
A licensed Landscape Architect holding the ASLA, IWI, and CBDP Master designations, Jason has accumulated dozens of International Design Awards across a career defined by the belief that outdoor space should be more than functional — it should be transformational.
Creator of the Elevate Pool Hydraulics curriculum and one of the most recognized hydraulic design educators in the watershape industry. Decades of real-world design practice distilled into this course.
Come for the expertise. Stay for the humor. Jason brings a disarming, light-hearted style to material that could easily feel academic — making these courses as fun and engaging as they are genuinely useful. Nobody does serious design education quite this way.
Landscape Architect & Industry Design Leader
📐 Patented Design Process
🎓 Professional Design School Background
🏆 Dozens of International Design Awards
🌎 Clients Across the Globe
Chad
Christenson
Senior watershape designer and hydraulics specialist with deep expertise in complex multi-vessel system design, equipment pad layout, and advanced schematic documentation practice.
Ryan
Glorioso
Hayward Commercial Aquatics expert and the architect of the exclusive Hayward equipment model library included with this course. Brings manufacturer-level product knowledge directly to the classroom.
Rebecca
Neves
Licensed Professional Engineer and PhD-level hydraulic engineering authority. Brings rigorous academic and engineering validation to every formula, calculation, and design principle in the course
How it Works
The Experience,
Start to Finish.
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Live & Virtual
Join from anywhere in the world via live online sessions. Ask questions in real time and engage directly with the material as it's being taught.
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One Year of Access
Your enrollment includes full replay access for a complete year after instruction ends. The education stays with you, not just through April.
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Tue & Thu Evenings
Sessions run Tuesday and Thursday nights, 2 to 2.5 hours each, across 2 weeks — 4 total nights designed to respect your working schedule.
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Industry-Specific
Every example, every principle, every application is grounded in the pool, hardscape, outdoor living, and landscape worlds — no translation required.
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Fully Recorded
Every session is saved in full. Miss a night? Need a refresher before a big project? Watch any lesson as many times as you need.
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Fun & Engaging
Jason's signature lighthearted style means you'll be absorbing world-class design education while actually enjoying every minute of it.
Live class schedule
From first principles
To finished schematic.
Built as a single progressive learning journey - each lesson builds on the last, By lesson 17, you’ll produce a complete, professional hydraulic design document you can add to your portfolio.
Tuesday, June 2
Lesson 1
Course Introduction
Lesson 2
This is Water. Water is Wet.
Lesson 3
The 9 Systems of a Pool & Spa
Lesson 4
Hydraulic Software & Equipment Models
Thursday, June 4
Lesson 5
Water Volume Calculation
Lesson 6
Filtration Turnover Rate
Lesson 7
Water Feature Weir Design
Lesson 8
Schematic Hydraulic System Design
Tuesday, June 9
Lesson 9
Pipe Sizing & Flow Rates
Lesson 10
Head Loss, TDH & Why it Matters
Lesson 11
Suction Circulation Design
Lesson 12
The Magic of Venturi
Thursday, June 11
Lesson 13
Equipment Pad Design
Lesson 14
Return / Pressure Circulation
Lesson 15
Floor Return Circulation
Lesson 16
Valves & Flow Control Devices
Lesson 17
Reviewing the System / Course Project
All Sessions: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST). Live Online. Session recordings provided
The Free Extras
Two Exclusive Inclusions,
Worth more than the tuition.
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INCLUDED!
Complete Hayward Equipment Model Library
Full Hayward product library - pumps, filters, heaters, sanitizers, lights, cleaners, automation, valves - formatted for direct use in any design software. Real spec data. Real pump curves, Ready to drop into your projects.
INCLUDED!
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1 Full Year - Elevate Online Hydraulic Engineering Calculators
Every formula. Every calculation. Every data point from this course - available online, anytime, from any device. Water volume, GPM design flow, weir rates, pipe sizing, TDH, pump selection, This too alone is worth more than the cost of the class.
Investment & Enrollment
Stop Guessing.
Start designing.
Every professional who touches a pool deserves to understand exactly why it works. Join us June 2nd and leave with the tools, the knowledge, and the credentials to prove it.
$950
Complete 17-lesson Course
Hayward Equipment Model Library
1 Full Year Calculator Access Included
Limited enrollment - Seats fill fast