Why you should choose a Smart Fish Method Swim School
*Did you know that 41% of children and 17.4% of adults go swimming each year in the United States? This makes swimming the third most popular sport in the United States today. When you include activities that require some level of aquatic safety training such as S.C.U.B.A., surfing, snorkeling, Water Polo, synchronized swimming, water skiing, and paddle boarding, swimming becomes the one skill that leads to more recreational and competitive activities than any other. The Smart Fish Method was created for the health and safety of children of all ages. From birth to adulthood, Smart Fish Method teachers would like to help you and your family become safer & smarter swimmers. Click Here for more details. 
*Did you know that 41% of children and 17.4% of adults go swimming each year in the United States? This makes swimming the third most popular sport in the United States today. When you include activities that require some level of aquatic safety training such as S.C.U.B.A., surfing, snorkeling, Water Polo, synchronized swimming, water skiing, and paddle boarding, swimming becomes the one skill that leads to more recreational and competitive activities than any other. The Smart Fish Method was created for the health and safety of children of all ages. From birth to adulthood, Smart Fish Method teachers would like to help you and your family become safer & smarter swimmers. Click Here for more details.
The Smart Fish Method
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Online teacher training, seminars, and monthly updates to keep your teachers properly trained and on track
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Comprehensive award system to keep kids and parents happy, encouraged, and involved in the learning process
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Educational and promotional signs, banners, books, & materials to clearly and accurately represent your school’s program
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Access to the Smart Fish website with up to date information and blogs and printable progress reports
in your child’s best interest
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Loving, caring teachers that tailor each lesson based upon your child’s needs and abilities
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40+ years of successfully teaching children of all ages water safety and advanced stroke technique
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Extended teacher training on child development
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“No wasted steps” approach focused on constant improvement and growth
Parenting 101
“As parents you may feel you do not have the right to force your child into a sport or athletic endeavor. You may sit back and hope that the child will decide for himself. However, most children are not very self-disciplined. It is always difficult to learn a new skill – Particularly in the initial stages. There is no fun to be derived from total failure, which is he typical feeling in the beginning. Thus, the child never learns those important, foundational skills, which he will need if he is to enjoy the sport in the future. I recommend that, as parents, you make a careful assessment of your child’s areas of strength. Then help select a skill where you believe the greatest possibilities for success lie. Once this selection is made, see to it that your child gets through the first stage. Reward him, push him, threaten him, beg him, bribe him if necessary – but make him learn it. If you discover later on that you’ve made a mistake, back up and start over on something else. But don’t let inertia keep you from teaching something emotionally useful to your child. Does this form of coercion impinge on the freedom of the child to choose for himself? Perhaps, but so does making him eat properly, keeping himself clean, and going to bed at a reasonable hour. It is in the child’s best interest.” – Dr. James Dobson from FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
Experience is the Best Teacher
The award-winning “Smart Fish” curriculum has been in constant development by Ginny (Flahive) Ferguson and her expert staff since 1971 and has never stopped growing. A founding member of the United States Swim School Association, Ginny Flahive Ferguson and her staff regularly attend and lecture at national and international conferences, seminars, and training courses. You can be assured that your teachers have received the latest information on child development from experts in the field as well as cutting edge stroke drills from U.S. National and Olympic coaches. Throughout all of this, our mission has never changed…
Our Mission
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to educate people on the importance of water safety
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to provide the most efficient and effective water safety and stroke technique lessons
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to create a loving environment for children where excellence in inevitable
Testimonials
One Smart Fish…
July 24, 2008 My husband Bob, Jack (2yrs, 3 months), and myself, Julie, went to McKenna’s on the Bay on Wednesday, July 16, 2008. We have been going there for years for appetizers...moreRiver Rescue
20 month old Taylor Mortiz loved the water but couldn’t swim, a scary combination. She fought her lessons, but eventually learned to appreciate her ability to back float, especially when she had to...moreSafe and Sound
3 year old Jamie Utz was riding her tricycle around the swimming pool, caught her wheel on the edge, fell in, back floated, rolled back over, swam to the wall, climbed out and...moreNo Lifeguard on Duty
“Our 18 month old rolled over into a safe back-float position after stumbling in the water at Mother’s Beach…so glad he learned to swim during the spring so he could safely enjoy summer...more