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AMERICAN RED CROSS "LEARN TO SWIM PROGRAM" AGE GROUPS  :Baby & Me: 6 months to 2 years of age. Toddler & Me: 2-3 years of age. Preschool Age: 3-5 years of age. School Age: 6 - 12 years of age and has started 1st grade. DEFINITIONS OF LEVELS: Beginner Intermediate Advanced Beginner Level A (Preschool only) (Formerly Level 1): Non-swimmer; minimum age 3 years old and toilet trained. This is an initial adjustment to the water environment. Swimmers will experience bubble blowing, fully submerging their head, and exploring the water while on their front and back. Upon successful completion, swimmers will be able to enter the water unassisted, move ten feet, bob five times to chin level and safely exit the water. They will also float on front with support for three seconds. Safety skills are an integral part of the learn to swim program and appropriate skills will be incorporated into this class. Level B (Formerly Level 11/2): This is a basic swimming class where swimmers will gain confidence floating and moving short distances while on their front and back independently. Upon successful completion, the swimmer will be able to enter unassisted, propel ten feet, bob five times and safely exit the water. Safety skills are an integral part of the learn to swim program and appropriate skills will be incorporated into this class. Level C (Formerly Level 2): This level will build confidence for the swimmer to do steamboats, while introducing front crawl and backstroke. Rhythmic breathing will be introduced. Upon successful completion, the swimmer will be able to jump into chest-deep water, move into a front float five seconds, roll over to a back float five seconds and recover. The swimmer will be able to push off and swim 15 feet on their front and 15 feet on their back. Safety skills are an integral part of the learn to swim program and appropriate skills will be incorporated into this class. Level D (Formerly Level 2 1/2): This level will introduce rotary breathing, dolphin kick, and treading water. Focus of this level is proficiency, stroke refinement, and endurance of front crawl and back crawl. Upon successful completion, swimmer will be able to jump into water over their head, swim front crawl 30 feet with face in the water and rhythmic breathing to the side, and swim back crawl 30 feet. Safety skills are an integral part of the learn to swim program and appropriate skills will be incorporated into this class. Level E (Formerly Level 3): This level introduces elementary backstroke, butterfly, and basic diving. The focus will be increased proficiency and endurance of front crawl, back crawl, and treading water. Upon successful completion swimmers will be able to jump into deep water, swim front crawl 15 yards with face in the water and rhythmic breathing to the side, maintain position by treading water or floating 30 seconds. Safety skills are an integral part of the learn to swim program and appropriate skills will be incorporated into this class. Intermediate Level F (Formerly Level 3 1/2): This level introduces breaststroke, underwater swimming, feet-first surface dives, and standing dives. The focus will be increased proficiency and endurance of front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, and elementary backstroke. Upon successful completion the swimmer will be able to perform a feet-first entry into deep water, swim front crawl 25 yards, maintain position on back one minute in deep water and swim back crawl 25 yards. Swimmers will also swim breastroke 15 yards, tread water 30 seconds and swim elementary backstroke 15 yards. Safety skills are an integral part of the learn to swim program and appropriate skills will be incorporated into this class. Level G (Formerly Level 4): This level will introduce scissor kick, rotary kick, sculling and survival float. The focus will be increased proficiency and endurance of front crawl, back crawl and treading water. Upon successful completion, swimmer will be able to perform a feet-first entry into deep water, swim front crawl 25 yards, turn immediately and swim back 25 yards. They will be able to swim breaststroke 15 yards, tread water on minute and swim elementary backstroke 15 yards. Safety skills are an integral part of the learn to swim program and appropriate skills will be incorporated into this class. Level H (Formerly Level 5): This level will introduce flip turns, sidestroke, survival swimming, long shallow dives, tuck and pike surface dives. Continued proficiency, stroke refinement, and endurance of front crawl, back crawl, butterfly and elementary backstroke. Upon successful completion, swimmer will be able to perform a shallow dive into deep water, swim front crawl 50 yards, maintain position on back two minutes in deep water (float or scull) swim back crawl 50 yards with a flip turn.Additionally, swimmers will swim breaststroke 25 yards, tread water two minutes and swim elementary backstroke 25 yards. Safety skills are an integral part of the learn to swim program and appropriate skills will be incorporated into this class. Advanced Advanced Swimmers  (Formerly Levels 6-7)Advanced swimmers will work on the following competitive strokes to ensure efficiency: freestyle (crawl stroke), back crawl, breaststroke and butterfly. The intent of this level is to refine strokes so swimmers swim them with ease. At this level swimmers have the choice of following tracts: Personal water safety, lifeguard preparedness, fitness swimming or fundamentals of diving. These tracts may be completed in any order. Fitness Swimmer: The fitness swimmer will use a pace clock, pull buoys, fins, hand paddles and training principles. The intent of this level is to refine strokes so swimmers swim them with ease. Upon successful completion you will swim 500 yards continuously using the following order: front crawl - 100 yards; back crawl - 100 yards; breaststroke - 50 yards; elementary backstroke - 50 yards; sidestroke - 50 yards; butterfly - 50 yards; and choice of stroke - 100 yards. You will also perform the Cooper 12-minute swim test and compare results with the pre-assessment results. Personal Water Safety: Personal water safety includes the use of lifejacket skills, swimming and self-rescue techniques, basic safety rules for boating and open water. The intent of this level is to refine strokes so swimmers swim them with ease. Upon successful completion you will swim 500 yards continuously using the strokes in the following order: front crawl - 100 yards; back crawl - 100 yards; breaststroke - 50 yards; elementary backstroke - 50 yards; sidestroke - 50 yards; butterfly - 50 yards; and choice of stroke - 100 yards. Next, the swimmer will jump into deep water, perform survival float five minutes, roll onto their back and perform a back float five minutes. Next the swimmer will perform a feet-first surface dive, retrieve an object from the bottom of the pool at a minimum depth of 7 feet and return to the surface. Lifeguard Readiness: Lifeguard readiness will introduce the swimmer to the skills needed to be a successful lifeguard. This will include: care for a choking victim, recognizing and emergency, assisting in water related emergencies and spinal injury management. The intent of this level is to refine strokes so swimmers swim them with ease. Upon successful completion, swimmer will swim 500 yards continuously using the strokes in the following order: front crawl - 100 yards; back crawl - 100 yards; breaststroke - 50 yards; elementary backstroke - 50 yards; sidestroke - 50 yards; butterfly - 50 yards; and choice of stroke - 100 yards. Swimmer will also swim 20 yards using front crawl or breaststroke, surface dive to a depth of 7-10 feet, retrieve a 10 pound object, return to the surface and swim 20 yards on their back or side to the starting point with the object. Swimmer must hold the object with both hands and keep their face out of the water. Fundamentals of Diving: Fundamentals of diving will introduce basic diving from the side and from a diving board. Also presented will be approach and hurdle from a diving board, diving in a tuck and pike position. The intent of this level is to refine strokes so swimmers swim them with ease. Upon successful completion, swimmer will swim 500 yards continuously using the strokes in the following order: front crawl - 100 yards; back crawl - 100 yards; breaststroke - 50 yards; elementary backstroke - 50 yards; sidestroke - 50 yards; butterfly - 50 yards; and choice of stroke - 100 yards. Diver will perform a front approach and hurdle with a feet-first entry from a 1-meter springboard, and will also perform a front approach and hurdle with a headfirst entry from a 1-meter springboard.
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