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Swimmer Levels

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LEVEL 1 – TADPOLES

Beginners (3-5 years)

Tadpoles are our excited Aqua-Tots. They learn the basic concepts of floating and gliding. We also build water confidence and introduce important safety drills. Tadpoles start with the fundamental skills of kicking, getting their faces wet and blowing bubbles. They are introduced to movement through water.

LEVEL 2 - STARFISH

Confident Beginners (3-5 years)

Starfish are our confident Aqua-Stars. They improve on the basic swimming skills of kicking and blowing bubbles rhythmically to improve their breathing technique. The water safety drills are consolidated and they get introduced to new skills of diving, jump-ins, floating and gliding on their backs.

LEVEL 3 - SEALS

Confident, Independent (5-9 years)

Seals are our Independent Aqua-Players. Our seals are much more confident & start enjoying the water making them independent & playful. However they focus on learning the primary freestyle stroke & do drills with the kicker board. Seals do more daring jump-ins & are taught basic breathing techniques for the freestyle. They are also introduced to the basics of the backstroke & proper diving.

LEVEL 4 - SWORDFISH

Intermediate Swimmers (6-11 years)

Swordfish are our Aqua-Braves. Swordfish love swimming & have learnt the routines and drills that make them fast and sound freestyle and backstroke swimmers. These strokes are taught with breathing and kicking drills. Swordfish learn the freestyle and backstroke.

LEVEL 5 - MARLINS

Advanced Swimmers (6-11 years)

Marlins are Aqua-Sailors. Their strokes are refined with breathing and kicking drills over laps. This helps to improve their basic fitness and skill. Swordfish refine the freestyle and backstroke start and finish technique and can confidently complete a few laps of the pool.

LEVEL 6 - STINGRAYS

Senior Swimmers (7+ years)

Stingrays are our Aqua-Flyers. Stingrays move effortlessly through the water as they refine their freestyle & backstroke drills to improve stamina & technique. Training & diving techniques are consolidated and they are also introduced to the Breaststroke. They learn to coordinate their leg & arm movements as well as breathing in all three strokes.

LEVEL 7 - SHARKS

Training Squad (7+ years)

Sharks learn speed, endurance and technique as they drill their Free, Back and Breast Strokes in a 25m pool. They are taught the Butterfly and refine their starts, dives, tumble turns and finishing. They also learn the basic rules of competitive swimming. Sharks graduate and can join any competitive training squad or club.

* Ages are average stimations as individuals start our programme at different ages & each swimmer progresses at their own pace

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