WHAT LEVEL SHOULD I ENROLL MY CHILD IN?

We want to make sure your child is placed in just the right class. Our curriculum consists of 10 unique teaching levels, each designed to teach a set of skills that build upon the skills taught in the prior level. This progressive teaching approach allows the student to learn to swim at a pace that is comfortable and individualized. It optimizes the pace of skill attainment and skill retention while creating a learning environment that is fun. To enroll in a level, the student must be able to demonstrate the required skills of the previous level. If the student is level 5 or higher we recommend you to sign them up for swim team.

**The skills for level 6 and above require lots of practice and repetition to develop. This is why we recommend swim team.

Level 1 - Beginner Swimmers

In this level we teach students how to develop a comfortable air exchange through nose bubbles while also learning body positions that will make swimming easier and more efficient.

Required Skills to Pass:

  • Fully submerge face for 3 seconds
  • Walk 5 yards in chest deep water
  • Move 5 yards along pool wall
  • Demonstrate front float with support
  • Demonstrate back float with support
  • Demonstrate kicking on front with support
  • Demonstrate kicking on back with support
  • Demonstrate alternating arm action for 10 seconds with support

** To enroll in level 1, participants should be able to demonstrate willingness to enter the water without parent and stay with the class group. Register

Level 2 - Fundamental Aquatic Skills

Builds on fundamental aquatic skills learned in Level 1 such as breath control and submerging; floating and gliding on front and back; swimming using combined arm and leg actions on the front and back; and treading in shoulder-deep water.

Required Skills to Pass:

  • Front float and glide for 5 seconds
  • Back float and glide for 5 seconds
  • Flutter kick on front for 5 yards (support optional)
  • Flutter kick on back for 5 yards (support optional)

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Level 3 - Independent Development

Swimmers work on developing the streamline body position while learning to flutter kick on the front and back along with body movement around the transverse plane for dolphin kick.

Required Skills to Pass:

  • Demonstrate body dolphin
  • bob 10 times without support
  • Jump into deep water from side of pool (assisted or unassisted)
  • Front glide with push off 15′
  • Back glide with push off 15′
  • Dolphin kick glide to recovery

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Level 4 - Components of Front Crawl

We teach the essential parts of the crawl stroke: how to hold the head for side breathing, how the hand enters the water, how the arm recovers with a high elbow. We begin the process of putting these components together in preparation for swimming in the competition pool for extended distances.

Required Skills to Pass:

  • Turning over front to back
  • Turning over back to front
  • Demonstrate treading water
  • Submerging head completely 15x in chest deep water
  • Swim on front using flutter kick and alternating arm action for 5 yards
  • Swim on back using flutter kick and alternating arm action for 5 yards
  • Bob in water slightly over head and travel to safe area

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Level 5 - Preparation for Swim Team

Designed to improve swimmers in freestyle, backstroke and when ready adding breaststroke and butterfly. Swimmers will work on perfecting technique, endurance and if desired readiness for swim team.

Required Skills to Pass:

  • Independent Diving - Kneeling
  • Backstroke - 20 feet
  • Freestyle arm stroke - 20 feet
  • Forwards and background somersaults
  • Demonstrate deep water bobbing
  • Tread water 1 minute

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Level 6 - 10 - Swim Team Ready

Level 6:

  • Freestyle with breathing (75ft)
  • Backstroke (30 ft)
  • Jump in and tread water
  • Tread water for 2 minutes
  • Standing dive from side of pool

Level 7:

  • Swim freestyle 50 yds
  • Swim backstroke 25 yds
  • Kick breaststroke 25 yds
  • Kick butterfly 25 yrds
  • Racing style dive from side of pool

Level 8:

  • Swim freestyle 100 yds, with bilateral breathing and flip turns
  • Swim backstroke 50 yds
  • Swim breaststroke 25 yds
  • Swim butterfly 30ft
  • Racing dive from diving block

Level 9:

  • Swim freestyle 200 yds, with bilateral breathing and flip turns
  • Swim 100 backstroke
  • Swim 50 yd breaststroke
  • Swim 25 yard butterfly

Level 10:

  • Swim freestyle 100 yds, with bilateral breathing and flip turns
  • Swim backstroke 50 yds
  • Swim breaststroke 25 yds
  • Swim butterfly 30ft
  • Racing dive from diving block

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