Lesson Descriptions

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)