Class Details:
Stroke Improvement
Prerequisite: Learn-to-Swim Level 3
01
Skills
- Headfirst entry in compact and stride positions
- Feetfirst surface dive
- Swim underwater
- Treading water, using 2 different kicks
- Survival swimming for 1 minute
Swimming
- Front Crawl for 25 yards
- Elementary Backstroke for 25 yards
- Breastroke for 15 yards
- Back Crawl for 15 yards
- Butterfly for 15 yards
- Sidestroke for 15 yards
- Open turns on the front and back
- Flutter and dolphin kick on back
- Push off in a streamlined position on back, then begin kicking
02
Exit Assessment
To go to the next level
- Perform a feetfirst entry into deep water, swim Front Crawl for 25 yards, change direction and position as necessary, and swim Elementary Backstroke for 25 yards.
- Swim Breastroke for 15 yards, change direction and position as necessary, and swim back Crawl for 15 yards.
- Submerge and swim a distance of 3 to 5 body lengths underwater without hyperventilating, return to the surface, then exit the water
03
Safety Focus
- Reaching assist
- Throwing assist
- Recreational water illnesses
- Think So You Don't Sink
- Look Before You Leap
