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Goal
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Skills
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| Level 1
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- 10 bobs in a rhythmic fashion
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- water adaptation
- blowing bubbles underwater
- looking underwater
- bobbing and blowing in a continous rhythmic fashion
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| Level 2
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- floating comfortably on your front and back for 5 seconds each
- pushing off with a good streamline on your front and gliding on
your back
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- increased comfort and relaxation in the water - establish good
body position
- floating with help and then independently on front and back
- pushing off in a horizontal position front and back
- streamlining
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| Level 3
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- good, fast flutter kicking on your front and back (5 yards
minimum)
- breathing while kicking on your front without dog paddle
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- flutter kicking on front and back with help, then independently
- kicking with floatation devices - kickboards, noodles, bricks,
etc
- dolphin dives/butterfly kicking
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| Level 4
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- flutter kicking on your side and breathing to the side (side,
glide, kick) minimum 20 feet
- swimming the freestyle with "big arms" and head still minimum
20 feet
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- balancing on your side while flutter kicking
- head rotation for breathing to the side - with a full air
exchange
- good body/head alignment
- development of "big arms" while swimming freestyle
- development of "feel" for the water via sculling and drills
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| Level 5
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- freestyle with good breathing
- good backstroke for a minimum of 30 feet
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- continuation of good body/head alignment in freestyle and
backstroke
- timing of breathing within the freestyle stroke without
interruption of rhythm
- backstroke arm movement with good rotation
- freestyle arm movement with good rotation
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| Level 6
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- extended freestyle and backstroke swimming (full lap of 25 yard
pool) with good technique
- ability to jump in and tread water for a minimum of 1 minute
- HEY, TALK TO YOUR
COACH ABOUT JOINING THE SWIM TEAM!!!
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- increased endurance for both freestyle and backstroke
- continued refinement of freestyle and backstroke technique
- diving
- treading water/sculling
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| Level 7
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- swim 50 yard freestyle with good technique
- swim 25 yards good backstroke
- kick breast stroke in a streamline with good technique for at
least 20 feet
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- development of breast stroke kick
- development of full stroke - breast stroke
- introduction of butterfly arms and full butterfly stroke
- continuation of stroke refinement for freestyle and back stroke
- improved endurance in all strokes
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| Level 8
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- swim 100 yards freestyle with good technique using bilateral
breathing and flip turns
- swim 25 yards good breast stroke
- swim 25 yards good butterfly
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- refinement of technique for all four competitive strokes
- bilateral breathing (alternate side breathing in freestyle)
- increased endurance in all strokes
- development of open turns and flip turns
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| Level 9
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- swim 200 yards freestyle with bilateral breathing
- swim 25 yards butterfly, 50 yards breast stroke, 50 yards
elementary backstroke, & 50 yards sidestroke
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- continued refinement of all four competitive strokes
- development of sidestroke
- development of elementary backstroke
- increased endurance in all strokes
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| Level 10
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- swim 300 yards freestyle
- swim 100 yards backstroke
- swim 100 yards individual medley
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- extended swimming and technique refinements in all strokes and
turns
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