This course teaches students the fundamentals of swimming, including the front crawl, elementary backstroke, back crawl, and the fundamentals of treading water. Students are also introduced to the breaststroke and sidestroke and the basics of turning at a wall. This course is for the non-swimmer or novice swimmer looking to improve aquatic skills. This course coordinates and refines all the key swimming strokes. Students are introduced to the butterfly stroke, open turns, surface dives, and springboard diving.
Students develop endurance swimming using all the key strokes.
This course refines all swimming strokes so students can swim with more ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances. This course also introduces the sidestroke and butterfly strokes, spring board diving and competitive turns. Students develop considerable endurance by the end of this course. This course is designed to perfect stroke mechanics so students can swim with more ease, efficiency, power, and smoothness over greater distances. This course may utilize the competitive strokes, starts and turns, and provide the whys as well as the hows of swim fitness so students can plan training programs to meet their changing needs.