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Learn-To-Swim Program
The Learn-To-Swim program is divided
into
six course levels. The prerequisite for each level is
successful
demonstration of the skills from the preceding level, except for Level
1. THE PREREQUISITE FOR LEVEL 1 IS TO BE AT LEAST 36 INCHES
AT THE CHIN.
Level
1
- Introduction to Water Skills
PURPOSE: Helps
students feel comfortable
in the water and to enjoy the water safely.
SKILLS: Basic water safety rules, using
a life jacket, submerging mouth, nose and eyes, opening eyes underwater
and picking up submerged object, swimming on front and back using leg
actions,
recognizing a swimmer in distress and getting help, exhaling
underwater,
and floating on front and back.
Level 2
- Fundamental Aquatic Skills
PURPOSE: Gives
students success with fundamental
skills.
SKILLS: Moving
in
the water while wearing
a life jacket, submerging entire head, front and back glide, treading
water
using arm and leg motions, recognizing a swimmer in distress and
getting
help, bobbing in water, jellyfish float, and swimming using combined
stroke
on front and back.
Level
3
- Stroke Development
PURPOSE: Builds
on the skills in Level
2 by providing additional guided practice.
SKILLS: Reaching
assist, submerging and
retrieving an object, front and back glide, front and back crawl,
kneeling
or standing dive (shallow dive progression), rotary breathing in
horizontal
position, survival float, back float, and butterfly-kick and body
motion.
Level
4
- Stroke Improvement
PURPOSE: Develops
confidence in the strokes
learned and to improve other aquatic skills.
SKILLS: Safe
diving rules, dive from stride
position or shallow dive, survival float, back float, elementary back
stroke,
breaststroke, butterfly, throwing assist, feet-first surface dive, and
front and back crawl.
Level
5 - Stroke Refinement
PURPOSE: Provides
further coordination
and refinement of strokes.
SKILLS: Survival
swimming, standing dive
(diving progression), open turns on front and back, front and back
crawl,
performing rescue breathing, tuck surface dive and pike surface dive,
front
flip turn and backstroke flip turn, and elementary backstroke,
butterfly,
breaststroke, and sidestroke.
Level
6
- Swimming and Skill Proficiency
Refines the
strokes so students will swim
with ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater
distances.
Level 6 is designed with “menu” options. Each of these
options focus
on preparing students to participate in more advance courses, such as
Water
Safety Instructor and Lifeguard Training. These options
include:
Personal
Water Safety
Fundamentals of
Diving
Lifeguard
Readiness
Fitness Swimmer
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