Level 1-Minnows Objective: To help swimmers feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water safely. Requirements: None Skills Covered: Entering and exiting the water safely on their own without assistance, learning to submerge mouth, nose and eyes and breath control, front and back float and recovering to a stand, changing direction in the water, swimming 5 feet on front and back.
Level 2-Small Fish - Fundamental Aquatic Skills Objective: To give students success with fundamental skills of swimming Requirements: Students entering this level must possess a Level 1 certificate or demonstrate all the Level 1 skills Skills Covered: Entering water by stepping or jumping in from the side, submerging entire head, blowing bubbles, open eyes underwater, front and back glide, swim 15 feet on front and 10 feet on back, swim on side, life jacket use
Level 3- Big Fish - Stroke Development Objective: To build on skills in Level 2 through additional guided practice Requirements: Students entering this level must possess a Level 2 certificate or demonstrate all the Level 2 skills Skills Covered: Jump into deep water, head first entry from sitting or kneeling, submerging and retrieving an object, bobbing, survival float for 30 seconds, treading water for 30 seconds, front crawl 15 yards, butterfly 15 feet, back crawl 15 yards, elementary rescues, safe diving, check-call-care
Level 4-Sharks - Stroke Improvement Objective: To develop confidence in the strokes learned thus far and to improve other aquatic skills by increasing endurance through swimming greater distances Requirements: Students entering this level must possess a Level 3 certificate or demonstrate all the Level 3 skills Skills Covered: diving, underwater swimming, feet-first surface dive, 1 minute of survival floating, treading and back floating, 25 yards of front crawl, breaststroke and back crawl, 15 yards of butterfly and elementary backstroke and sidestroke, compact jump from height in a lifejacket, throwing assists and caring for conscious choking victim
Level 5- Dolphin - Stroke Refinement Objective: Coordination and refinement of strokes Requirements: Students entering this level must possess a Level 4 certificate or demonstrate all the Level 4 skills Skills Covered: Shallow dive, tuck and pike surface dives, 2 minutes of survival floating, back float and treading water, flip turns on front and back, 50 yards front and back crawl, 25 yards butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke and sidestroke, 2 minutes of survival swimming, rescue breathing
Level 6-Killer Whales - Swimming and Skill Proficiency Objective: Refine strokes so students swim them with more ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances; includes "menu options" - Personal Water Safety, Fitness Swimmer and Fundamentals of Diving Requirements: Students entering this level must possess a Level 5 certificate or demonstrate all the Level 5 skills Skills Covered: 500 yards continuous swim using 100 yards each of front & back crawl, 50 yards each of breaststroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke & butterfly and 100 yards choice of any of those strokes, survival floating and back floating 5 minutes each, feet first surface dive & retrieve an object from 7 feet, Cooper 12-minute swim test
Private-Swim Lessons
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