Stroke improvement and advanced techniques
Ages 6+ years
This curriculum is designed for swimmers who have a basic knowledge of freestyle and backstroke and are working to learn breaststroke and butterfly. Our goal is that swimmers graduate level 4/5 with the skills needed to join a competitive aquatics or swim team program. We prepare our swimmers to know the proper way to swim all 4 competitive strokes, as well as how to save themselves in an aquatic emergency. The stroke technique curriculum learned in level 4, 5, and our pre-clinic program are all the identical, so there is no need to leave a level 4/5 class at one facility in order to go to ta pre-clinic program at a different pool. The only difference is that the clinic program will add skills needed for competition including diving off of starting blocks and mastering flipturns.
Skills to be worked on in Level 4:
- Developing a love and respect of water through safety education and practical experience
- Introduction to streamlines
- Diving in from the side
- Treading water for 1 minute
- Mastering freestyle and backstroke technique
- Learning breaststroke timing
- Learning dolphin kick and butterfly timing
- Introduction to Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly turns