- •Enter and exit water independently
- •Face in the water 3 seconds, nose bubbles
- •Assisted front/back float and glide
- •Assisted roll-over, assisted jump in from side
- •Independent front/back float and recover
- •Independent front/back glide and recover
- •Independent rollover to back float
- •Jumping bobs
- •Front glide to flutter kick and recover
- •Back glide to flutter kick and recover
- •Seesaw body movement (transverse plane)
- •Intro to dolphin kick
Prerequisites: Front glide streamline kicking 15′ and back glide streamline kicking 15′
Level 4 swim lessons 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. Level 4 swimmers focus on:
- •Hand lead side kicking with roll-in-breathing
- •Crawl arm stroke and intro to rotary breathing
- •Intro to 6 beat back kick w/axis rotation
- •Forward and backward somersaults
Prerequisites: Hand lead crawl stroke with rotary breathing 25′
Level 5/6 swim lessons are taught in the competition pool* and designed to improve swimmers in freestyle, back stroke and when ready adding breast stroke and butterfly. Swimmers will work on perfecting technique, endurance and if desired readiness for swim team.