Career
He has also been known as "The King of Swing", as well as "The Manitoba with a Thousand Moves". He was a performer on the 1977 television variety show Dance Fever with Lynn Vogen, as well as the 1992 show "Big Band Ballroom Bash". Schwimmer has founded his own swing competition, organizes the World Swing Championships in Las Vegas, and works as a dance teacher and coach.
In 1965, at the age of 15, Schwimmer invented a new American partner dance, which he called "Nightclub Two Step".
Schwimmer had a dance studio in Costa Mesa for 22 years, and worked out of Moreno Valley for 10 years, teaching on the road. In the mid 1990s, Schwimmer opened the "5-6-7-8 Dance Studio" in Redlands, California.
The studio, which holds both private lessons and classes with from 5 to 25 students, resumed full operations in September 2006. In 2011, the studio 5-6-7-8 suffered another bout with mother nature and was forced to close.
Buddy, being undaunted, found another building and built a bigger and better studio and reopened under a new name, "Schwimmer"s The Dance Center" () with over 6,000 square feet (560 m2) of dance floor and 3 rooms for classes, the largest being approximately 3,000 square feet (280 m2).
The New studio located at 1445 West Park Avenue, Redlands California 92373 held its Grand Opening in March to over 400 visitors dancing the night away to the music of Jumpin" Jack Smith with special exhibitions by Benji Schwimmer, Torri Smith and Brennar Goree, Tom and Sossy Hyatt and many others In 2012, Buddy purchased a campground in Arrowbear and plans to open a "non-profit" camp so that everyone can experience dance! His "Buddy Schwimmer"s Resort to Dance" is currently undergoing renovations.