Swim Lessons: Youth
Ages: 6 years - 14 years
The Learn-to-Swim-Program is designed to help participants achieve maximum success. Learn-to-Swim courses are based on a logical, six-level progression that helps swimmers about 6+ years old and adults to develop their water safety, survival and swimming skills.
The Youth Program for children ages 6 to 14 years old. Each class is 45 minutes in duration. Generally there are 6-8 students per instructor. Children are evaluated and grouped according to skill level. There are five levels in the American Red Cross Learn-to-Swim program.
Please try to arrive early to allow your child to use the restroom and to shower before lessons.
Children may not enter the water prior to class. This policy keeps the child from becoming fatigued or chilled. After class, your child may stay in the water (with your permission), provided that space is available. Children may wear goggles in the youth program.
| LEVEL 1: Gold Fish |
INTRODUCTION TO WATER SKILLS
Give participants success with fundamental skills
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- Enter and exit water by stepping or jumping from the side
- Fully submerge and hold breath
- Bobbing
- Open eyes under water and retrieve submerged objects
- Front, jellyfish and tuck floats
- Front and back glides and floats
- Recover to vertical position
- Roll from front to back and back to front
- Change direction of travel while swimming on front or back
- Tread water using arm and leg actions
- Combined arm and leg actions on front & back
- Finning arm action
- Age-appropriate water safety topics
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LEVEL 2: Flying Fish
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FUNDAMENTAL AQUATICS SKILLS
Helps children start to gain basic swimming propulsive skills to be comfortable in and around water
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- Enter water by jumping in
- Fully submerge and hold breath
- Bobbing
- Front, jellyfish and tuck floats
- Recover from a front and back float or glide to a vertical position
- Back float and glide
- Change direction of travel while swimming on front or back
- Tread water using arm and leg actions
- Combined arm and leg actions on front and back
- Finning arm action on back
- Age-appropriate water safety topics
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LEVEL 3: Seal
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STROKE DEVELOPMENT
Give participants success with fundamental skills and build on skills in Level 2 through additional guided practice in deeper water.
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- Enter water by jumping from the side
- Head first entries from the side in sitting and kneeling positions
- Bobbing while moving toward safety
- Rotary breathing
- Survival float
- Back float
- Change from vertical to horizontal position on front and back
- Tread water
- Flutter and dolphin kicks on front
- Scissors kick
- Front crawl and elementary backstroke
- Age-appropriate water safety topics
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LEVEL 4: Seal
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STROKE IMPROVEMENT
Develops confidence in the skills learned and improves other aquatic skills
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- Head first entries from the side in compact and stride positions
- Swim under water
- Feet-first surface dive
- Survival swimming
- Front crawl and backstroke open turns
- Tread water using 2 different kicks
- Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.
- Flutter and dolphin kicks on back
- Age-appropriate water safety topics
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LEVEL 5: Seal
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STROKE REFINEMENT
Provide further coordination & refinement of strokes
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- Shallow-angle dive from the side then glide and begin a front stroke
- Tuck and pike surface dives, submerge completely
- Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn while swimming
- Front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly.
- Sculling
- Age appropriate water safety topics
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