Stroke School (Age 6 years old and up)
Level 4
- Details
- Category: Stroke School (Age 6 years old and up)
Class Description
This level is for swimmers who are able to swim 30 feet of Freestyle and Backstroke. This class is for swimmers who are working to improve their rotatary breathing and backstroke techinques, as well as the indroduction to breaststroke and butterfly.
Requirements to join level
Must be able to
Swim in water over their head
- Swim freestyle 30 feet with rotatry breathing
- Swim backstroke 30 feet with straight arm recovery
Focus: Stroke Improvement
Learning Objectives
- Flutter kick on front and back for 50 yards
- Retrieve an object from depth of 5 feet
- Freestyle with proper technique 25 yards
- Backstroke with proper technique 25 yards
- Frog kick 12 yards
- Perform Breaststroke arm action
- Breaststroke with proper timing 12 yards
- Somersault (front flip)
- Dolphin kick for 15 Feet
- Tread water for 1 minute
- Diving/Compact dive
Safety Skill: Reach or Throw Don't Go
Exit Skill: Compact Dive, 25 Yards of Freestyle, 25 Yards of Backstroke, Breaststroke for 12 yards, Tread water for 1 minute
Level 5
- Details
- Category: Stroke School (Age 6 years old and up)
Class Description
This level is for swimmers who are able to swim 25 Yards of Freestyle and Backstroke. This class is for swimmers who are working to improve their breaststroke and butterfly techinques, as well as buliding their endurance.
Requirements to join level
Must be able to
- Swim in water over their head
- Swim freestyle 25 yards with rotatry breathing
- Swim backstroke 25 yards with straight arm recovery
- Swim breastroke 15 yards with proper timing
Focus: Stroke Refinement
Learning Objectives
- Freestyle 50 yards with bilateral rotary breathing
- Backstroke 50 yards with straight arm recovery
- Breaststroke 50 yards with proper timing
- Butterfly 12 yards with proper timing
- Open turns for breaststroke and butterfly
- Open turns for freestyle and backstroke
- Scissor kick
- Tuck and Pike Surface Dives
- Tread water for 2 minutes
- Retrieve diving brick from a depth of 9 feet
- Somersault (front flip)
Safety Skill: Basic Life Saving Techniques
Exit Skill: Standing Dive, Freestyle 50 yards, Backstroke 50 yards, Breaststroke 50 yards, Butterfly 12 yards, Butterfly 12 yards
Aqua Club
- Details
- Category: Stroke School (Age 6 years old and up)
Class Description
Pre-Competitive: Swim Team Prep
Our Aqua Club program is the perfect fit for those looking for their first experience with a competitive swim team while balancing their involvement in other activities. This training group is meant to bridge the gap between our learn-to-swim program and our year-round competitive swim team. Swimmers spend most of their focus building endurance to improve freestyle and backstroke. We will work on developing breaststroke, teaching butterfly, and introducing starts and flip turns. This program will enable swimmers to learn, improve and compete in a fun environment.
Age Requirements: 6-18 years old.
Swim Meets: Optional!
Requirements to join level
Must be able to
- Swim in water over their head
- Swimmers must be in level 4 or higher
- Swim freestyle 25 yards with rotatry breathing
- Swim backstroke 25 yards with straight arm recovery
- Swim breastroke 15 yards with proper timing
- Swim butterfly 15 yards
Focus: Advanced Stroke Technique and Endurance
Learning Objectives
- Understand how to use the pace clock and read swim
- Freestyle 200 yards with flip turns
- Backstroke 200 yards with flip turn
- Breaststroke 200 yards with pullouts
- Butterfly 100 yards
- Breaststroke Pull Outs
- Touch turns for breaststroke and butterfly
- Flip turns for backstroke and freestyle
- Racing Dives
- 100 IM