Swim/Dive Lessons - Class Descriptions

SWIM LESSONS

Parent/Tot (Recommended for ages 3 months-3 years)

• Adult accompanies the child in the water

• Parent teaches child water safety skills taught by instructor

• Children will get comfortable in the water

• Children must wear swim diapers

Preschool (Recommended for ages 3 to 5)

• Class for preschool age children not quite ready for level 1

• Children will get comfortable in the water

• Learn swimming readiness skills

• Fun class for children

Level 1: Intro to Water Skills (Recommended for ages 4 and up)

• Beginning class for children

• Submerge mouth, nose, eyes

• Float on front and back

• Follow basic water safety rules

Level 2: Fundamental Aquatic Skills

• Perform front and back glide

• Tread water using arm and leg motions

• Jump from side of pool

Level 3: Stroke Development

• Survival float

• Learn to dive

• Builds confidence in strokes

Level 4: Stroke Improvement

• Shallow dive, surface dive

• Open turns

• Breaststroke, butterfly, front and back crawl

Level 5: Stroke Refinement

• Dives: standing, pike surface, shallow, tuck surface

• Flip turns: front, backstroke

• Sidestroke

DIVE LESSONS

Beginning Diving (Must be 8 years of age and level 4 swim skills)

• Instruction of different diving skills

• Approach, take off, basic positions

• Front dive, back dive, somersault

Intermediate Diving

• Instruction of different diving skills

• Skills will build upon those learned in beginning diving

• Inward dive, reverse dive

FITNESS CLASSES

LIFEGUARD CLASSES - FULL

JUNIOR LIFEGUARD CLASSES

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