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SWIM LESSON LEVELS ALL LESSONS INCLUDE WATER SAFETY TOPICS.

TADPOLE (PARENT/GUARDIAN & CHILD) 6mo-3yrs CATFISH (LEVEL 2) Age 7-12yrs
Introduces basic skills that lay a foundation for learning to Students further develop simultaneous and alternating
swim with parental support for infants and toddlers. Parents arm and leg actions on their front and back and improve
learn how to safely work with their child in the water, utilizing locomotion skills performed without support. Skills taught
key fundamentals such as how to appropriately hold and overlap those taught in Guppy.
encourage their child to participate in the water.
BASS (LEVEL 3) Age 7-12yrs
SALAMANDER (LEVEL 1) Age 3-6yrs Students learn how to swim front crawl and elementary
Introduces basic aquatic skills and orients students to the backstrokes. Scissors kick, dolphin kick and survival floating
aquatic environment. In addition, students learn how to be are introduced. Students also learn how to enter the water
safe around water with assistance. headfirst from a seated position while also expanding on
previously learned skill proficiencies.
MINNOW (LEVEL 2) Age 3-6yrs
Students develop aquatics skills independently at longer TROUT (LEVEL 4) Age 7-12yrs
distances and deeper water while continuing to explore Students increase endurance and proficiency in front
simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on their crawl and elementary backstroke and begin to learn the
front and back. rudimentary form for sidestroke and breaststroke. This stage
also introduces the back crawl and butterfly stroke and how
GUPPY (LEVEL 3) Age 3-6yrs to perform an open turn at a wall.
Students independently improve coordination and control
of combined simultaneous and alternating arm and leg SALMON (LEVEL 5) Age 7-12yrs
actions at longer distances and increased repetitions than in Students refine all six swim strokes and improve endurance at
previous stages. increased distances. Front and back flip turns are introduced
in this stage.
PERCH (LEVEL 1) Age 7-12yrs
Introduces basic aquatic skills and orients older students to PRIVATE LESSONS (P) Age 3yrs+
the aquatic environment. In addition, students learn how to One student per instructor. Lessons are taught at the
be safe around the water with support. Skills taught overlap student’s level.
those taught in Salamander and Minnow.

WHAT STAGE IS THE STUDENT READY FOR?

PRESCHOOL SCHOOL-AGE
Is the student comfortable working with an Not TADPOLE
instructor without a parent/guardian in the water? Yet AGE 3-6 AGE 7-12
Not
Can the student go underwater voluntarily? SALAMANDER TADPOLE
Yet LEVEL 0
Can the student do a front glide, back glide, and Not MINNOW
back float with assistance? Yet SALAMANDER PERCH
Not LEVEL 1 LEVEL 1
Can the student swim 15-25ft on their own? GUPPY
Yet
Not MINNOW CATFISH
Can the student go underwater voluntarily? PERCH LEVEL 2 LEVEL 2
Yet
Can the student do a front glide, back glide, and Not CATFISH GUPPY BASS
back float on their own? Yet LEVEL 3 LEVEL 3
Can the student swim 15-25 yards of front crawl Not BASS
and elementary backstroke? Yet TROUT
Can the student swim 15-25 yards of front Not LEVEL 4
crawl, breaststroke, back crawl and elementary Yet TROUT
backstroke? SALMON
LEVEL 5
Can the student swim 25-50 yards of front
crawl, breaststroke, back crawl and elementary Not SALMON
backstroke using appropriate turning styles? Yet

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