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
