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WHAT LEVEL SHOULD I ENROLL MY CHILD IN?

We want to make sure your child is placed in just the right class. Our curriculum consists of 10 unique teaching levels, each designed to teach a set of skills that build upon the skills taught in the prior level. This progressive teaching approach allows the student to learn to swim at a pace that is comfortable and individualized. It optimizes the pace of skill attainment and skill retention while creating a learning environment that is fun. To enroll in a level, the student must be able to demonstrate the required skills of the previous level. If the student is level 5 or higher we recommend you to sign them up for swim team. 

**The skills for level 6 and above require lots of practice and repetition to develop. This is why we recommend swim team.

Level 1 - Beginner Swimmers - In this level we teach students how to develop a comfortable air exchange through nose bubbles while also learning body positions that will make swimming easier and more efficient.     

Required Skills to Pass:

• Fully submerge for 3 seconds
• Enter and exit water independently
• Demonstrate blowing nose bubbles
• 5 yards in chest deep water
• (10) Wall bobs with bubbles and air exchange

** To enroll in level 1, participants should be able to demonstrate willingness to enter the water without parent and stay with the class group.

Level 2 - Fundamental Aquatic Skills - Builds on fundamental aquatic skills learned in Level 1 such as breath control and submerging; floating and gliding on front and back; swimming using combined arm and leg actions on the front and back; and treading in shoulder-deep water.

Required Skills to Pass:

• Floating and gliding front and back (5 seconds & recover)
• Jumping & Streamline Bobs
• Retrieve object in chest deep water

Level 3 - Independent Development  - Level 3 swimmers work on developing the streamline body position while learning to flutter kick on the front and back along with body movement around the transverse plane for dolphin kick.

Required Skills to Pass:

• Back Dolphin
• Front glide with push off 15′
• Back glide with push off 15′
• Dolphin kick glide to recovery

Level 4 - Components of Front Crawl - Level 4 we teach the essential parts of the crawl stroke: how to hold the head for side breathing, how the hand enters the water, how the arm recovers with a high elbow. We begin the process of putting these components together in preparation for swimming in the competition pool for extended distances.

Required Skills to Pass:

• Turning over front to back
• Turning over back to front
• Demonstrate treading water
• Submerging head completely 15x in chest deep water
• Bob in water slightly over head and travel to safe area
• Jump into deep water from side of pool (assisted or unassisted)

Level 5 - Preparation for Swim Team - designed to improve swimmers in freestyle, backstroke and when ready adding breaststroke and butterfly. Swimmers will work on perfecting technique, endurance and if desired readiness for swim team.

Required Skills to Pass:

• Independent Diving - Kneeling            
• Backstroke - 20 feet
• Freestyle arm stroke - 20 feet
• Forwards and background somersaults
• Demonstrate deep water bobbing
• Tread water 1 minute

Level 7 - Required Skills to Pass:

• Swim freestyle 50 yds
• Swim backstroke 25 yds
• Kick breaststroke 25 yds
• Kick butterfly 25 yrds
• Racing style dive from side of pool

Level 9 - Required Skills to Pass:

• Swim freestyle 200 yds, with bilateral breathing and flip turns
• Swim 100 backstroke
• Swim 50 yd breaststroke
• Swim 25 yard butterfly