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Description
After having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique preventing chronic disease, increasing social-emotional and cognitive well-being and fostering a lifetime of physical activity. Students work on refining stroke technique, building endurance and learning all major competitive strokes in swimming lessons. The emphasis on water safety continues through treading water, sidestroke and elementary backstroke. Students will learn about competitive swimming and discover how to incorporate swimming into a healthy lifestyle.Level 4: Stroke Introduction: Students in stage 4 develop swim stroke techniques in front crawl and back stroke and learn the breaststroke kick and butterfly kick. Water safety is reinforced through treading water and elementary backstroke.
Levels 4-6 are held weekly for three months and are part of our academy model of programming. Students enrolled at this level must have swim instructor recommendation and/or participate in an evaluation with an aquatic director.
Category
Swimming
Location
Indoor Pool - Family & Therapy Pool at Upper Main Line Branch
Prerequisites
Level 4
or Level 5
or Level 6
Instructor
Swim Instructor
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