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Beginner to Advance Beginners Skills and Progression Achievement Goals
Station 1 - Bubbles  (back to top)

Skills to be learned

  1. Gradual water adaptation
  2. Movement in the water
  3. Breath holding and release
  4. Submersion of the face
  5. Opening eyes underwater
  6. Blowing bubbles
  7. Wall Bobs with bubbles and air exchange

Test out Advancement Goals

  1. 10 relaxed wall-bobs
 
Station 2 - Floats and Glides  (back to top)

Skills to be learned

  1. Front float and recover
  2. Front glide and recover
  3. Back float and recover
  4. Back glide and recover
  5. Jumping Bobs
  6. Streamline Bobs

Test out Advancement Goals

  1. Front glide and recover-5 seconds

  2. Back glide and recover-5 seconds

 
Station 3 - Kicking (back to top)

Skills to be learned

  1. Porpoising
  2. Front kick, glide and recover
  3. Back kick, glide and recover
  4. Dolphin kick, glide and recover
  5. Seesaw body movement
  6. Sitting on the kickboard sculling

Test out Advancement Goals

  1. Front kick-15 feet
  2. Back kick-15 feet
 
Station 4 - Crawl Stroke (back to top)

Skills to be learned

  1. Rollover - front to back, back to front
  2. Finning and sculling
  3. Side-glide kick
  4. Crawl arm stroke 
  5. Somersaults forward and back

Test out Advancement Goals

  1. Side-glide kick - 20 feet
  2. Crawl stroke - 20 feet
 
Station 5 - Freestyle (back to top)

Skills to be learned

  1. Crawl stroke with breathing
  2. Back crawl stroke
  3. Double somersaults
  4. Handstands
  5. Horizontal head first sculling

Test out Advancement Goals

  1. Crawl stroke with breathing

(30 feet minimum of 4 breathes)

 
Station 6 - Backstroke (back to top)

Skills to be learned

  1. Extended freestyle swimming
  2. Tread water
  3. Jump in and tread water
  4. Sitting dive
  5. Kneeling dive
  6. Standing dive

Test out Advancement Goals

  1. Swim freestyle 25 yds
  2. Swim backstroke 30 ft.
  3. Tread water for 1 minute
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