Infant Swimming Resource Self-Rescue™ Swimming Lessons
The Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) “Technique And Goals Are Unique.” Swimming Simply Means To Move Through The Water. This Is Why ISR Emphasizes More Than Just “Swimming Skills.”
ISR provides a comprehensive survival swimming program by using the ISR SELF-RESCUE™ technique. Survival swimming is the ability to move through the water independently while breathing effortlessly.
Many programs teach children to swim and lift their heads to breathe. Lifting the head for a breath expends great amounts of energy to obtain air and children have limited sustainable energy. The head lift technique will soon fatigue a child. Alternatively, the rollback to a float to breathe is effortless, offering unlimited rest and air while in the water, thus equipping your child with aquatic survival skills to potentially save themselves in an emergency situation. Most importantly, the ISR student will have practiced all the survival swimming skills while fully clothed.
Rollback-To-Float: Infants 6 – 12 Months
This is a basic survival skill for students who are crawling. Your child will be taught to rotate from a face-down position in the water to a back float. The baby will be taught to rest and breathe on their back until help arrives. A child who enrolls in the ISR program as an infant will learn the correct posture for swimming early which will facilitate learning at the next level. Generally, infants need approximately 3-4 weeks to learn these skills.
Swim-Float-Swim: Children 1 – 6 Years
This series of skills is taught to children who have begun walking. Toddlers are taught to utilize that cross-coordinated motion for movement through the water. Your child will be taught to swim face down with eyes open, roll on their back to float, rest and breathe when your child needs air, and then flip over onto their stomach to continue swimming until they reach a point of safety. This swim-float-swim sequence can be repeated as many times as is necessary to reach safety. This skill set can be achieved with five 10-minute lessons per week in approximately 4-6 weeks.
ISR Lessons
In addition to teaching your child, ISR has developed a complete program of parent education concerning many facets of drowning prevention. The Parent Resource Guide is available to all parents registering their children in the program and it includes such topics as attitude and emotions, physiology and safety before, during and after the lessons, family aquatic safety and other valuable information.