We teach you and your children how to swim skillfully and safely. In addition to swimming skills, each level includes training in basic water safety. Students must be able to follow and accept directions and be able to take turns in order to participate in-group swim lessons.
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Levels & Descriptions
| Parent & Child 1 & 2 Ages: 6 months–4yrs Class length: 30 min Caregiver participation required. Parent& children learn together to increase a child’s comfort level in the water and build a strong foundation of swimming readiness skills. |
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| Parent & Child 3 Ages: 3-4yrs Class length: 30 min Caregiver participation required. Improve skills learned in Parent and Child 2, teach more advanced skills and continue to build on water safety knowledge. |
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| Preschool 1 Preschoolers will acquire fundamental skills such as getting their face wet, blowing bubbles, and floating while they gain confidence and have fun in the water. Ages: 3.5-5 Class length: 30 min Prerequisites: Child should be able to separate from caregiver. |
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| Preschool 2 Preschoolers who are comfortable with water on their face and submerging. This program focuses on helping the young child transition to performing skills independently. These skills involve gliding, floating, and coordinating arm and leg movements. Ages: 3.5-5 Class length: 30 min Prerequisites: Child should be able to separate from caregiver. |
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| Level 1 Ages: 5-12 Class length: 30 min Students will acquire fundamental skills such as getting their face wet, blowing bubbles, and floating while they gain confidence and have fun in the water. We will start the process of transitioning into more independent swimming. |
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| Level 2 Ages: 5-12 Class length: 30 min This level marks the beginning of true locomotion skills. Students learn to glide, float and swim without support while building on the skills learned in level 1. Prerequisites: Comfortable with submerging underwater and able to perform skills without assistance. |
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| Level 3 Ages: 6-12 Class length: 40 min Students will enhance their stroke proficiency by incorporating the elementary backstroke, scissor kick, and breaststroke kick into their training. They are focused on enhancing their endurance, buoyancy, rotary breathing, and front crawl technique. Prerequisite: Swim on front for 5 body lengths, roll to back, float 15 seconds, roll to front, continue swimming for 5 body lengths. |
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| Level 4 Ages: 6-12 Class length: 40 min Improve front crawl stroke, elementary backstroke. Intro of back crawl, sidestroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and open turns. Prerequisites: Tread water for 1 min., swim front crawl for 15 yards, change direction and swim elementary backstroke for 15 yards. |
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| Level 5 Ages: 6-17 Class length: 40 min Provides further coordination and refinement for all strokes, introduces surface dives, shallow dives, flip turns. Prerequisites: Swim front crawl and elementary backstroke for 25 yards each, and back crawl & breaststroke for 15 yards each, and submerge and swim 3-5 body lengths underwater.
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