Swimming Classes For Kids
Clownfish (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
Similar to our Sea Horse level, the child will learn with a combination of games and techniques that will enhance their learning experience. Fundamental swim skills are taught with an emphasis on breath control, the most essential skill one needs to learn to be successful and safe in the water. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught:
- Water adaptation
- Movement in the water
- Breath holding and release
- Submersion of the face
- Opening eyes underwater
- Blowing bubbles
- Wall bobs with bubbles and air exchange
Starfish (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
The coaches will continue to work on the child’s breath control while adding new skills such as front float and glide and back float and glide. These fundamental skills will allow your child to become more independent in the water while adding to your child’s future success.Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught:
- Front float and recover
- Front glide and recover
- Back float and recover
- Back glide and recover
- Jumping bobs
- Streamline bobs
Sunfish (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
The coaches will continue to work on the child’s breath control and floats/glides while adding new skills such as front kick, back kick and dolphin kick. As with the previous classes, these fundamental skills will continue to allow your child to become more independent and confident in the water while adding to your child’s future swimming success. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught
- Porpoising
- Front kick, glide and recover
- Back kick, glide and recover
- Dolphin kick, glide and recover
- Seesaw body movement
- Sculling while sitting on kickboard
Sailfish (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
The coaches will continue to work on the child’s breath control, glides and kicks while adding new skills such as front crawl arm stroke and safety skills such as rolling over. These fundamental skills will continue to allow your child to become more independent and confident in the water while adding to your child’s future swimming success. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught
- Rollover – front to back, back to front
- Finning and sculling
- Side-glide-kick
- Crawl arm stroke
- Backwards bobs
- Somersaults forward and backwards
Swordfish (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
The coaches will continue to work on the child’s breath control, glides, kicks and crawl stroke while adding new skills such as front crawl with breathing and back crawl. With every new skill learned, the future success is contingent on the previous learned skills as these skills are the foundation for future swimming success. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught
- Crawl stroke with breathing
- Back crawl stroke
- Double somersaults
- Handstands
- Horizontal head first sculling
Stingray (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
The coaches will continue to work on the child’s breath control, glides, kicks, front crawl stroke with breathing and back crawl stroke while adding new skills such as extended freestyle swimming and treading water. Coaches are always building upon previously learned skills to make stronger and safer swimmers. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught
- Extended freestyle swimming
- Treading water
- Jump in and tread water
- Sitting dive
Barracuda (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
Children aged 5 and above that are able to swim freestyle for 75 ft., backstroke across the pool and tread water for 1 minute. The coaches continue to build upon skills previously learned such as breath control, glides, kicks, extended freestyle swimming and backstroke while adding new skills such as breaststroke and butterfly. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught
- Breaststroke kick
- Breaststroke swim
- Butterfly arms
- Butterfly swim
- Windshield wiper w/ seesaw
Dolphin (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
Children aged 5 and above that are able to swim freestyle for 50 yards, backstroke for 75 ft. and kick breaststroke across the pool. The coaches will begin working on each child’s endurance while fine-tuning their breath control, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught
- Extended Swimming
- Freestyle with bilateral breathing
- Fine-tuning of breaststroke
- Fine-tuning of butterfly
- All turns
Shark (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
Children aged 5 and above that are able to swim freestyle for 100 yards, breaststroke for 75 ft., and butterfly across the pool. The coaches will continue to focus on swimming longer distances to make each child stronger and safer while continuing to work on their breath control, strokes and turns. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught
- Extended swimming and technique refinement for all strokes with turns
- Elementary backstroke
Swimmers (5 years old and older) 30 minute lessons
Your child has reached the summit! The coaches will continue refining the swimmer’s skills and improving endurance. Your child will graduate from this level when they successfully complete 300 yards freestyle and 100 I.M. Congratulations!!! Your child has earned the right to call themselves a swimmer. Teaching ratio 4:1.
Skills to be taught
- Extended swimming and technique refinement in all strokes and turns