| Level |
Descriptions |
| 1 - Bubbles |
- Gradual water adaptation
- Breath holding and release
- Opening Eyes underwater
- Bobbing with bubble and air exchange
- Movement in the water
- Submersion of the face
- Blowing Bubbles
- 10 Relaxed bobs
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| 2 - Floats & Glides |
- Front float, glide and recover - 5 seconds
- Back float, glide and recover - 5 seconds
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| 3 - Kicking |
- Porpoising
- Back kick - 15 feet
- Front kick - 15 feet
- Dolphin kick - 15 feet
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| 4 - Front Crawl |
- Rollover -- front to back, back to front
- Finning and sculling
- Crawl Stroke, 20 ft. (no breathing)
- Side-glide-kick, 20 ft.
- Crawl arm stroke
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| 5 - Freestyle |
- Crawl stroke with breathing (30 feet, minimum of 4 breaths)
- Back crawl stroke
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| 6 - Backstroke |
- Swim freestyle 25 yrds.
- Jump in and tread water for 1 minute
- Kneeling dive
- Swim backstroke 30 ft.
- Sitting Dive
- Standing Dive
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| 7 - Breaststroke & Butterfly |
- Breaststroke kick
- Breastroke Swim
- Butterfly arms
- Butterfly swim
- Swim freestyle 50 yrds
- Swim backstroke 25 yrds
- Kick breaststroke 20 ft.
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| 8 - Turns |
- Freestyle with bi-lateral breathing
- Swim freestyle for 100 yrds (using bi-lateral breathing for 25 yrds of the swim)
- Swim 25 yrds Breaststroke
- Swim 30 ft. Butterfly
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| 9 - Lifetime Strokes |
- Swim 200 yrds Freestyle, bi-lateral breathe for 50 yrds
- Sidestroke swim
- Swim 25 yrds Butterfly
- Swim 50 yrds Elementary backstroke
- Elementary Backstroke
- Swim 50 yrds Breaststroke
- Swim 50 yrds Sidestroke
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| 10 - Individual Medley/ Graduation |
- Extended swimming and
- Swim 300 yrds Freestyle
- Swim 100 yrds Individual Individual Medley
- Swim 100 yrds Backstroke
- Swim 100 yrds Individual Medley
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| 11 - Stroke Refinement |
- Students who have the above skills and wish to work on stroke refinement
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