Moving from Self-Rescue to Stroke Concepts
Once your child has mastered their Self-Rescue skills, they can progress towards learning strokes in a way that reinforces their Self-Rescue skills. This is offered during Skill Advancement/Refresher sessions.
The first step is connecting multiple Swim-Float-Swim sequences together so that your child can swim longer distances. We will use this to build their confidence and endurance, and it also helps us fine tune their Self-Rescue techniques.
Once they have started swimming longer distances in their Self-Rescue swimming, we can start to introduce stroke concepts. Many traditional swim lessons use a lot of prompting to teach a child when to breathe when they are swimming. Part of the ISR approach is creating INDEPENDENT Self-Rescue skills, so it’s really important to reinforce a child’s ability to rollback to float and breathe without an instructor prompting them to do so.
Before transitioning to traditional swim lessons, I will ensure your child can swim the entire length of a pool (25 yards) in their swim/float/swim, swim with freestyle arms (arms coming out of the water), are introduced to side breathing in freestyle, learn backstroke and elementary back stroke.
All Self-Rescue swim lessons are conducted without goggles, but once those skills are mastered, we can introduce goggles, and fins are also helpful in the transition to stroke techniques.
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