{"id":8395,"date":"2020-02-03T21:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/what-is-the-british-swim-school-difference\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:00:31","slug":"what-is-the-british-swim-school-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/what-is-the-british-swim-school-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the British Swim School Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-366\" src=\"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/292\/2025\/10\/IMG_0694-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Swim Instructor teaching assisted back floating\" width=\"1037\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, we are asked what is so unique about British Swim School Hamilton County compared to the many learn-to-swim programs in the area. A few parents who have transferred have seen, first-hand, the difference between a traditional swim program and our swim survival program, but for those of you who are new to swim lessons, it\u2019s important to understand the difference.<\/p>\n<p>During lessons, you will often see your child learning to float on his or her back. Some days, you\u2019re probably tired of watching your child float on his or her back. But this is the foundation of <strong>survival<\/strong>. If your child only knows how to do strokes or swim underwater, what happens if he or she is in distress, gets tired and no one is around to help? Traditional swim programs may teach treading water (and so do we&#8230; after core survival skills have been taught), but we all know that treading water is exhausting, and it won\u2019t help if you\u2019re already out of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Back floating, or \u201cstarfish,\u2019 is a low energy way to stay above water for an extended period of time. It\u2019s that extra time that will allow a child to either rest then continue to swim or call for help. Aside from following basic rules around the pool (no running, climbing in the safe way, etc.), this is <strong>the key to water safety<\/strong>. This is what makes British Swim School so different.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll hear a lot of parents who have tried other programs say, \u201cMy child can swim, but she can\u2019t float.\u201d It is our mission to teach your child to float and, ultimately, survive. Unfortunately, accidents do happen, and British Swim School wants every student to have the tools they need for a positive outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oftentimes, we are asked what is so unique about British Swim School Hamilton County compared to the many learn-to-swim programs in the area. A few parents who have transferred have seen, first-hand, the difference between a traditional swim program and our swim survival program, but for those of you who are new to swim lessons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swim-programs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/central-indiana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}