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Pre-clinic

May 7, 2018 by admin

A swimmer’s first experience in pre-swim team prep


Ages 4+

This curriculum is designed for swimmers who have a basic knowledge of freestyle and backstroke and are working to learn breaststroke and butterfly kicks. Our goal is that swimmers can move from a level 3 program to this pre-clinic at a very young age because they desire to learn 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 3, 4, 5, and our pre-clinic program are all the identical in the stroke technique taught for the 4 strokes.

The biggest difference in our Learn to swim program vs our Pre-competitive program is that our Pre-competitive program will add skills needed for competition including diving off of starting blocks. This class is meant for our swimmers that want to prepare to join a swim team at a very young age.

Skills to be worked on in Pre-clinic:

  • Developing a love and respect of water through safety education and practical experience
  • Introduction to streamlines
  • Diving in from the starting blocks
  • 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

Skills required to be eligible for Pre-clinic:

  • Swimmer must be able to complete 25 yards on their front using no specific skills or stroke, without holding on to any supports (no time limit)
  • Swimmers must be able to stay on their backs for 15 yards, at least, while kicking and/or pulling
  • Swimmers must have passed level 2 in our program, and be ready for level 3+
  • Swimmers do not need to have any prior knowledge of freestyle breathing

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