I got her to relax in the pool.

Welcome to our page, Superhero Swim. My name is Coach Jacob, and this is my pool in West Palm Beach, Florida. Today, you're going to see me working with a little girl named Seve, but we call her Seve. She is a sweet and amazing little swimmer. She's only 12 months old, and she's super rambunctious. In this lesson, you're going to see me just building her trust, building her confidence, and helping her learn the skills that could save her life. I hope you enjoy this lesson. Now we're going to do a little swimming. You want to go ahead? You can go get one. Bring one over. While I teach Seve, Lux likes to hang out and play in the pool. It actually helps Seve quite a bit because she gets to hang out with him and watch him do crazy stuff, and then she wants to try it too. You hold on, Seve. Nice. Good. One, two, three. Good hold. Swim, right, Seve. Good job. One thing I always do with Seve is when we swim, she always swims to the step right here. Come on. Here you go, Seve. I don't let her swim to the wall or anything like that because I want her to keep her head down. If you have little kids swim to the wall, they'll put their head up, and that's actually what makes them go vertical, so always swim into the stairs. You'll see me do it a bunch of times in the lesson. We're going to crawl out this time. One, two. Here, Seve. Pink. So now we're going to introduce going on the back a little bit for the first time in the lesson, and that's all we're going to do. Real simple. It's easy when you drag them off the wall. You got pink, Seve? Hold it. Bring it back. Okay, there you go. Go get it, ready? Underneath. Then do the physical cue. Let go underwater. She's got to swim. Good. Okay, that's okay. We're going to do it again. That was a little messy. Ready, set, go. There. Good kicking. Good grabbing on. As soon as she got those hands on, I let go because I want her to pull herself up. Good. Come on. Here you go, Seve. There you go. Put it away. Yay, you did it. Yay. Good clapping. So we did the swim out, and now we want to do, we got our ring, which is good. We want to do, oh, she knows exactly what to do because we practiced all this time. One, two, three, four. I'm all right. You really don't want them doing it with the toy in their hand because then those hands go up, but that's all right now. We're just getting started. Ready, set, go. Try to do the swim and the float before they get it when they're this young, so that way they're not playing with it up above them because those hands, once those hands go up with that toy. Good job. Yay. Yay, you did it. Once those hands go up and they're playing with it, actually makes them sink in the water. Music. More. You get more, Seve. Okay, so now we're going to add a little bit of a roll and the float before we get the ring. A little more resistance. Wow. Ready, set, go. One, two, and three. Good. Nice swim. I'm going to stand up above. We're going to do a nice easy roll. Good. She turned her own head, which is good. See how the hands came up? That's what we don't want. I'm going to put my hands out to the elbows. Get those arms down. She's pushing into my hands. Those feet are across. We don't want that. Good. She's pretty relaxed. I'm going to take it. It's important to take it when you see it and feel it. You're feeling her body. When she's really relaxed, you got to reward that. Good job. Ready, set, go. Swimming forward. Good job. Good job, Seve. There, Seve. Can you put it on? Oh, almost had it. Yay. Good job, Seve. Yay. Play the music. You got the music. Want to go get more rings? Should we go get more rings, Seve? Hey, we're going to do it again. Same thing. Rinse and repeat over and over. And if you know from the other videos, these donuts, these rings, I do it with all these. Okay. Good. We got a nice breath there. Good. I'm going to prepare her for that nice easy roll. You did amazing. One. I wish I had my hat on and give her more shade. One. I know it's so bright. Two. Thanks, Lex. Uh-oh. Don't go that way. Yeah. So I'm letting her make that mistake. Three. Okay. I got to help put those hands down. I just need her to look at me with this position. Look at me in this position. You're done. There she is. I'll take it. I'll take it. Good. You're going to grab orange? Yay. Good girl. Good job. Happy girl. In just a few minutes. Good job, Lex. Or I mean, uh, Seven. Good job, Seven. You did it. Yay. So she's getting a little resistant here. So now I got to change it up. She's getting sick of the pattern and babies will get sick of the pattern quickly. It's important that we change it up and have some fun and do something different. Do something different around the pool. We go. There we go. Grab green. We're still doing the same stuff. I just changed up that particular, uh, whoa, that particular, uh, whatever you want to call that. Go swim. We're still swimming back. Good. Oh, that's okay. That happens. You saw that mistake. She made the mistake. She drank a little water and inhaled a little bit of water. Yeah. It's okay. Take a little break. If they need to sit down on your knee to rest, that's fine. Wow. Look at a bird. Look at a birdie. Look at that vulture. Look at that thing. That thing is huge. That was like 80 feet across. That was crazy. Yeah. The one that pooped on my umbrella. Probably. Probably that thing is looking pretty, uh, pretty gross. What are the kids say these days? Sus. Put it on. Yay. That was great. You did it. Yay. Okay. We're going to try to get one more good one out of her. Ready, steady, ready, go. One, two, three, four, five. Steady. Good. Rotate on the neck there. One, two, three, four kicking. Oh man. That's okay. So she's still putting those hands up again. That's what happens when you allow them to float with toys in their hands. That's why we don't allow that. One, two, three, four. Because earlier she did that one time with a toy in her hand. It really affects everything. You got both. Good job. Ready, set, go. Come to the side so I can watch everything and guide that swim. Yeah. Good girl. Put it on. Come on Seve. Whoa. Put it away. Yay. Good job Seve. Get out the dive toys. The starfish. And now we're going to put the toys on the second step here. The bottom step. Thank you. I want to see if she goes and gets them. This is what I want to see right here. That's what I was looking for. So look, we just left. She's good. The breathing's good. We do a little float. There's a quick one. Those are your fingers. I have your hand. So she's pushing into my arm. So when she puts those arms up and I grab here, she was pushing down into my hands and that's why her hands were coming down. It wasn't because I was pulling them down. That's correcting the posture. Go get a toy. Let's see if I can get her to get one. There we go. These ducks are great. They're heavy duty. They'll last forever and you can just put the baby's hands right through them and now she got it. Very good. You got the ducky? I'm gonna let her play with her reward up there. She worked so hard. She got it. Great job. Very good. And then we got all these other ones down here and I want to see if she makes that same mistake again. And again, by letting them make those mistakes, that's what they're going to learn from and be safer generally around the water. Again, like I only see Seve a week and she has such great breath hold. I wouldn't consider her pool safe, but you know, letting her make these mistakes, eventually she's going to learn where she can and can't go. Like I'm serious telling you today, she's holding on to the wall. She's better balanced. She's not two weeks ago or whatever. She was crazy. Crazy. Oh, here we go. Maybe good. That was a great fall. She knew where to lean. She knew where to put her body weight. She's got both hands on the step here. Let's see. Oh, here's a trough one. Good correction. Let's see. She comes over here. She looks for the wall. Great job and a good rotation. That's great. Here's Seve. Boing, boing, boing, boom. She's frustrated. She's frustrated. I think Seve knows that she can't get them or she doesn't know how to get them and she really wants to play with it because she was enjoying it. Look Seve, you want to come get it? Here you go. This is good. The first time she just went for it. She went all in. She fell. She lunged for it. Help. You want help? Let's get it. Let's get a little closer. Let's get her right on top. Let's see what she does. Seve. This is good. This is a really good thing. Being able to see this. She again, she realizes that she can't get it and she doesn't know how. She got a little frustrated. Now we're off to playing with something else. And then there's Lex. He's gurgling. Hey, stop drinking the water. He's not drinking. I don't think. I think he's just gurgling it when it comes up. That's hilarious. You want to get the toy, Seve? Okay. Now we're going to go get it with her. Let her get some. And then we're going to do probably one or two more things with her and she's going to be all done. Ready, go. Oh, we didn't. That's okay. Let's try again. You got to set them up a little better for a second. Okay. Ready? She grabbed it that time. Oh, she got two. Look at that. She grabbed them with both hands. I love that. We're going to let her play with those toys for a little bit. Crawling up with both toys in her hands. She just crawled up that first step, which is great. Really created a stable. So she created a stableness for herself. She's crawling around low to the ground. She's using her hands. All good things. All general safety things that we want to look for with the little ones. Look how she's leaning back into the wall. What are you doing? Oh, thank you. What do you want to do now, Seve? Should we go do a little more floating? We're probably going to do a couple more floats before we end for the day. Floating is the most important thing for little ones anyways, because that's what's going to save their life if they do fall in. Good job, Seve. I don't think we'll get a solo float, but we'll do just two and then I think she's done. Here, Seve. Let's do a quick float on her back. We got to uncross the legs, so we don't want to feed her up. That's a common thing. We're going to put the hands here on the head. If they put their feet up, look what I do. I go back and forth and swish around. Okay, one, two, three. This is the last one. You just got to do one good one. Yeah, feet come down quick. One, two, three, four, five. Yeah. Hey, you can't put your feet up. How are you? Good job. The whole body was relaxed. Made her a little dizzy, but you got to do what you got to do. Good job. Okay, Seve, we are all done, sweetheart. You want to swim one more time? Go ahead. Ready, set, go. Over and over again. Seve? She's not ready to be let go of yet. I feel her tension in her body tucking in. We're not ready to be let go. I have let go of her in the past, but again, twice a week, kids are a little more difficult. It's been cold, so we haven't done all the lessons. We've had to cancel a few times. Stuff takes a while. Even if they got it once, especially the little ones, if you don't practice, they will lose it. They will lose it, 100%. 100%. Good girl. Good job. They're so nice and relaxed. I'm letting her chin go down. I just need her to let go, and then you can reward that too. If they're grabbing their feet and they decide to let go and those feet go down and the body relaxes, lift up right away. You got to reinforce whatever behavior you want. If they're holding the feet, wait till those feet go down and then pick them up. If they're putting their belly down, same thing. As soon as they correct, lift up. Good work today, Seve. Big swim. All over to the stairs. Bye-bye, Seve. Ready, set, go. Great little swim. Good job. Bye-bye, Seve. Bye-bye. My turn. It's my turn now. It's your turn now. That's right, Lex. I'm a dolphin. Ready to do some swimming?