| Levels |
Descriptions |
| 1 - Splashers |
- Water adaptation
- Get in Pool by self
- Get out of Pool by self
- Flutter kick holding wall
- Adjustment to coach
- Reaching assists
- Use of Personal Floatation Devices
- Throwing floating Objects
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| 2 - Bubblers |
- Go underwater by self
- Open eyes underwater
- Hold Breath and blow out (deck)
- Blow bubbles in water
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| 3 - Floaters |
- Prone float with kick
- Back Float with kick
- Prone float kick to wall
- Sit/Fall off wall to coach
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| 4 - Kickers |
- Sit/Fall/Kick back to wall
- Tread water
- Kick across pool prone
- Kick across pool on back
- Kick with arms extended
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| 5 - Crawlers |
- Prone movement with arms underwater
- Breathe to front
- Standing up, return to side
- Backstroke arm movement, recovery
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| 6 - Frogs |
- Breastroke Kick movement
- Breastroke Arm movement
- Modified crawl - 20 feet
- Backstroke - 20 ft.
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| 7 - Dolphins |
- Dolphin kick
- Dolphin kick with 1 arm stroke
- Dolphin kick with 2 arm strokes
- Crawl - with out of water arm recovery
- Breastroke - 20 feet
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| 8 - Starfish |
- Crawl - with out of water recovery
- Crawl - with side breathing
- Backstroke - 50 feet
- Breastroke - 20 feet
- Butterfly - 20 feet 2 arms
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| 9 - Divers |
(in 5 feet of water or more)
- Sitting dive
- Kneeling dive
- Standing dive
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| 10 - Swimmers |
- Crawl - 25 yards with breathing and dive
- Backstroke - 25 yards
- Breastroke - 25 yards
- Butterfly - 50 feet
- Somersault or shoulder roll in water by wall
- Streamline on push off of wall
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