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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