Parents are required to participate; one child per adult. Children not toilet trained must wear a swim diaper.

Children participate in this class without parents. If you are interested in this class for your child under the age of 5, he/she must have participated in previous classes and must be approved by staff to participate. Class size depends on instructor availability.

Purpose: Helps students feel comfortable in the water.

Level I participants learn to:
- Enter and Exit water safely
- Float on front and back
- Open eyes underwater, submerge to pick up object
- Submerge mouth, nose and eyes
- Explore arm and hand movements
- Exhale underwater
- Explore swimming on front and back
- Use a life jacket
- Explore forward and backward motion without barbell
- Learn proper body position on front and back
- Demonstrate proper safety skills
Exit skills
- Enter unassisted, swim 5 yards with barbell, bob 5 times with head fully submerged, safely exit the water, travel along the gutter or "swim".
- Float on front with support for 3 seconds, roll to back (with assistance), float on back with support for 3 seconds.
- Jump independently, float on back with support for 3 seconds, roll to front with support, and float on front for 3 seconds with support.

Purpose: Learning proper body positioning and body mechanics.

Level II participants learn to:
- Demonstrate proper head position for freestyle and backstroke
- Rotary Breathing
- Independently kick with assisted materials
- Perform arm circles with barbell
- Swim freestyle and backstroke
- Demonstrate proper safety skills

Exit skills
- Independently swim 12 yards of freestyle
- Independently swim 12 yards of backstroke
- Kick independently with assisted device to 25 yards on front
- Streamline underwater for 5 yards
- Jump into deep water independently

Purpose: Builds on the skills in Level II through additional guided practice. Refining level 2

Level III participants learn to:
- Refine freestyle
- Refine backstroke
- Learn breaststroke kick fundamentals
- Demonstrate proper safety skills

Exit skills
- Continuously swim freestyle with rotary breathing for 50 yards
- Continuously swim backstroke with proper head alignment for 50 yards
- Perform proper breaststroke kick
- Perform kneeling dive

Purpose: Develops confidence and endurance in skills previously learned with focus on technique

In addition to refining freestyle and backstroke, Level IV participants learn to:
- Dive
- Swim breaststroke
- Tread water
- Perform butterfly kick
- Perform open turns on front and back
- Demonstrate proper safety skills

Exit skills
- Perform freestyle for 100 yards
- Perform backstroke for 100 yards
- Perform breaststroke for 50 yards
- Perform butterfly kick for 25 yards
- Standing dive
- Tread water for three minutes

Purpose: Provides further refinement of the following strokes:
- Freestyle
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke

Level V participants also learn to perform:
- Butterfly
- Front flip turn
- Backstroke flip turn
- Competition start from blocks
- Demonstrate proper safety skills

Exit skills
- Continuously swim freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and 50 yards of butterfly
- 5 minutes of treading water

Level 1

Are you afraid of the water? Did you not have the opportunity to learn how to swim?
Then this class is for you. Lessons will take place in our small round three and a half foot deep pool. In the security of this pool you will learn to feel comfortable in the water, float on your back and front, put your face in the water, and begin to learn the front and back crawl, and many other skills.

The Masters Swim Program is designed for people who have at least a Level 5 competence. The program is set up to accommodate a range of swimmers, varying in speed and endurance. You have to want to swim the workout posted each time, which involves some combination of freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. The larger the group, the more motivation to improve. So come swim!
There will be two additional dates that class will not take place. Those dates will be announced by instructor.