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Learn-to-swim Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills

Prerequisites

None - Participants start at age 5 

Learning Objectives

  • How to enter and exit the water
  • Submerging under water
  • Bobbing
  • Open eyes under water and retrieve submerged objects
  • Front and back glides and floats
  • Recover to vertical position
  • Roll from front to back and back to front
  • Alternating and simultaneous leg actions on front and back
  • Alternating and simultaneous arm actions on front and back
  • Combined arm and leg actions on front and back

Skills to be Mastered to Move to Level 2:

Student must be able to consistently demonstrate the following skills:

  • Swim on front with face in the water, take a breath, continue swimming (independently about 5 yards)
  • Roll over from front to back and float for 5-10 seconds (independently)
  • Swim on back using arms and/or legs (independently about 5 yards)