Teach swim babies to self-rescue by flipping to their backs, when they fall into a pool
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2022
- PARENT TOT: Grade 2+ Water Safety Drill Prep Crosby
The following video is one of many new training elements we are making for our smartfishacademy.com on-line courses taken by our new staff, veteran staff, and others around the world who want ideas enhance their own swim teaching techniques for all ages and skill levels. We are always hiring and training: www.watersafe.com/careers
This is one of Crosby’s many Water Safety Drill Prep lessons. He sits on the wall and launches into a perfect roll-over to a back float. On this day he began the lesson with the Drill Prep. He did not warm up and practice his skills first. In real life, falls into the pool are usually accidental and they do not get a “do-over” if they aren’t successful on that first fall. It’s important that they are able to spontaneously take care of themselves, without a review of how to do it, first. He is not confused about what to do after the back float, because he has been trained to finish the sequence on his back.
Repetition like this developed a conditioned reflex to independently roll back and float patiently until picked up. Crosby was not taught whole method. We wanted to be sure he could pass this, before moving on to Grade 3 skills. We should take advantage of the fact that babies and toddlers back float better and they often cannot reach the high wall of a swimming pool, so they need to do this well.
Now, while his mom was standing on the other side of the pool, he falls in from the wall without having anybody nearby, and again does a perfect back float. In fact, it is so good that I do not need to get into the pool to pick him up. Crosby has practiced long back floats and appreciates them, because, through natural consequence, he has been exposed to what would happen if he doesn’t stay there and wait. In this lesson, we’re just working on the falling scenarios. His mother gave him long hugs and rest in between each of the practice falls. This time I had him go in backward. He back floated several feet under the water and rose horizontally to the surface. There is a tendency for parents and teachers to resist doing these Grade 2+ drills, because it appears so harsh and they are excited to move on to teach Swim-Float-Swim skills. However, the babies and toddlers that go through it often enough get used to it, begin to enjoy it, and actually become the better back floaters who truly take the time to rest while recovering for air during the swim-float-swim sequence. “Back Floating” is the way this age group treads water, except that it is even more sustaining and restful than that.
Fear occurs when a person does not having control of something. These Grade 2+ grads tend to reach the point of confidence and competence, knowing that they can control the water and their position in it, sooner than the babies and toddlers who skipped it. Number of times through equals certainty. That being said, when they successfully self-rescue every time they fall into the water, they stop resisting it, understand the reason for it, and then discover how easy it is when they just literally “roll with it.”
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This is awesome
How is the progression of teaching babies to swim on their backs? I am interested to learn this for my kids. Thank you.
The videos that illustrate the details of how we keep the approach so gentle are not public. They are reserved for viewing for those who take the on-line courses to become swim teachers. However, In short... we use specific teaching aids and fade them in baby steps until the babies and kids can do it by themselves.
Feel sorry for this baby… learning to swim should be a good experience..no baby should be push like that.
He won't even remember ...
This is for the safety of the baby. What harm is it doing? Babies die every year from drowning and falling into a pool. It takes a few moments of someone’s back turned for it to happen. This is for those incidents.
Stress destroy babies brain. Cortisol boost into their body and brain. This is very stressful.
I’d rather my child be a little stressed and know how to save themselves in water if an accident happens than them not know this and the event be fatal.
It's not