For swimmers who are ready to compete in all 4 strokes
Pre-competitive clinic 1: Ages 6+
Pre-competitive clinic 2: Ages 8+
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 4 program to these Pre-comp Clinics 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 4, 5, and our Pre-comp clinic program are all 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.
The difference in our Pre-comp 1 vs Pre-comp 2 clinic is age, maturity, and ability to swim all four strokes legally. Our focus in this program will be introducing the scientific terms that apply to swimming such as buoyancy, propulsion, and body position in such a way that promotes greater speed and efficiency in the pool.
Skills to be worked on in Pre-comp 1 and 2 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
- Pre-comp 2 only: Mastering legal butterfly and breaststroke technique
Skills required to be eligible for the Pre-comp 1 clinic:
- Swimmers must be at least 6 years old
- Swimmer must be able to complete 25 yards of freestyle and backstroke legally
- Swimmers must be able to kick legal breaststroke and butterfly kick
- Swimmers must have passed level 3 in our program, and be ready for level 4+
- Swimmers need a basic knowledge of rotary freestyle breathing
- Swimmers do not need any prior competitive experience
Skills required to be eligible for the Pre-comp 2 clinic:
All of the requirements of Pre-comp 1 in addition to…
- Swimmers must be at least 8 years old
- Swimmers need to be able to swim all 4 strokes legally
- Swimmers must be able to dive off the starting blocks
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