When you have a small child, you are always concerned for their safety and probably wondering whether or not they have the tools they need in order to build a successful future. You might have considered that learning how to swim can improve the child’s safety while around the water, but there’s more to it Read More
Swimming is valuable skill that everyone should know, children included. Even as young as six months of age, children can start learning how to swim. In order to learn how to execute this important and even life-saving skill, your kid can participate in child swimming lessons, among other practices. These practices can vary from learning Read More
The Survival Swim class at Texas Swim Academy is a unique style of infant swimming lessons set out to provide a more comprehensive and critical set of water skills than a typical baby swim program. Our number one priority is safety and our dedicated and knowledgeable instructors equip every child in this program with the necessary Read More
Our Survival Swim program is not a fancy name to describe your typical “baby swim lesson”. Our Survival Swim program provides a more comprehensive and critical set of water skills than a typical baby swim program would. Since safety is our number one priority, we believe that learning basic survival skills in the water should Read More
The simplest advice for getting your child to love the water is, “start young!” That includes aquatic survival lessons for infants as young as 6 months old (we’ve discussed in-depth the benefits of early swim in the past). Love for the water starts at home and there are several ways you can build your child’s Read More
Many parents and caregivers are amazed by our baby swimming videos of infants as young as six months old successfully practicing advanced water survival techniques, rolling over, floating and even swimming underwater. We’d like to take all the credit, but it turns out babies are programmed by instinct with two very helpful natural reflexes to help Read More
Should Parents Be Concerned About Secondary Drowning After a Swim Lesson?
Survival Swim, Water Safety
Many don’t realize that drowning can occur outside of a swimming pool. It’s a phenomenon known as “dry drowning” or “secondary drowning” that happens when someone breathes in small amounts of water during a struggle. That triggers muscles in the airways to spasm which can make it hard to breathe. There have been many blogs Read More
Our most popular swim program is called, “Survival Swim” and the name was chosen carefully, not simply as a fancy alternative to “baby swim class.”Our survival swim program is specially designed to teach a more comprehensive and critical set of water skills than mainstream infant swimming lessons, in a one-on-one setting that emphasizes effective instruction. Read More
An important additional benefit of survival swim is one that many parents are not aware of when considering baby swim classes: early swim can make your infant smarter and more capable outside of the pool. The results of the Griffith Institute Early Years Swimming study are encouraging for any parents who want to give their Read More
A swimming baby is a safer baby, this is the mantra we work by at Texas Swim Academy. It’s not just common sense, or a marketing line – some very important numbers back up this statement. The most important recent swim safety study is from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, who Read More