Students will continue to work on their basic, intermediate, and advanced swimming strokes, focusing on endurance, refinement, and mastery. Various forms of diving, such as suface dives and diving from the starting blocks, will be introduced.
Skills List:
Water Entries
- Jump into deep water from the edge (10 ft or greater) and begin swimming for 25 meters
- Jump into deep water from a height (diving board or diving blocks) recover and swim for 25 meters
- Perform a standing head first entry from the edge of the pool in 9 ft of water or more and swim 25 meters.
- Perform head first entry from a height (diving blocks or diving board) and swim for 25 meters
Aquatic Skills
- Head first surface dives in deep water submerging at least 5 to 7 feet to retrieve an object
- Treading water using flutter, whip, and rotary kicks for 2 minutes
- Survival swim for 1 minute
- Control breath to swim underwater for 5 to 10 ft.
Swimming Skills
- Demonstrate whip kick, flutter kick, scissor kick, and dolphin kick with kickboard or aquatic barbell.
- Perform the front crawl/back crawl/elementary backstroke for 100 meters (or 1 pool length) without stopping
- Demonstrate the breaststroke for 50 meters
- Demonstrate side stroke for 50 meters
- Demonstrate butterfly for 25 meters.
- Perform an open turn during front and back crawl
- Perform flip turn during front crawl
Safety Lessons
- Throwing Assists from the edge of the pool
- What to do if you get into trouble in water
- Spotting trouble before it happens: boating and lake safety
Exit Skills
- Perform front crawl for 100 meters with open turns
- Perform back crawl for 100 meters with open turns
- Perform elementary backstroke for 50 meters
- Perform breaststroke for 50 meters
- Perform sidestroke for 50 meters
- Perform standing head first entry from edge of pool and swim 25 meters
