| Swim Lessons Level | Purpose | Course Content
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Level I
Water Exploration
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- Orientation to aquatic environment
- Create a sound foundation for aquatic an and safety skills
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- Supported floating and kicking on front and back
- Alternating arm action
- Water safety rules
- How to get help in an emergency
- Reaching assists without equipment
- Fundamentals of using a life jacket
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Level II
Primary Skills
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- Expand on fundamental aquatic locomotion and safety skills
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- Floating and kicking on front and back
- Rhythmic breathing
- Combined stroke on font and back
- Turning over front to back, back to front
- Reaching and extension assists
- Familiarity with rescue breathing
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Level III
Stroke Readiness
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- Increase swimming skill competency
- Practice safety and rescue skills
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- Fundamentals of elementary backstroke
- Jumping into deep water with a life jacket
- Diving from side of pool
- Treading water
- Self-rescue skills
- Rescue breathing
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Level IV
Stroke Development
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- Develop confidence and competency in strokes and safety skills beyond preceding levels
- Introduction of breaststroke and sidestroke
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- Deep-water bobbing
- Dives from side of pool from stride and standing positions
- Breaststroke and sidestroke
- Turns at the wall
- Familiarity with CPR
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Level V
Stroke Refinement
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- Continued refinement of front crawl, back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke and sidestroke
- Introduce butterfly, surface dives, and springboard diving
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- Alternate breathing
- Swimming underwater
- Butterfly
- Open turns on front and back
- Diving safely
- Beginning diving progression from diving board
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Level VI
Skill Proficiency
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- Develop maximum efficiency and endurance for strokes
- Introduce surface dives
- Introduce flip turns
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- Approach and hurdle on diving board
- Tuck and pike surface dives
- Alternative kicks for treading water
- Throwing rescues
- Turning spinal injury victim face up
- Approach stroke
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Level VII
Advanced Skills
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- Encourage lifetime fitness
- Refine strokes learned in previous levels
- Develop springboard diving skills
- Teach advanced rescue skills
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- Incorporating learn-to-swim skills and activities into lifetime fitness
- Springboard dive in tuck and pike positions
- In-water rescue techniques utilizing equipment
- Conditioning principles
- Review Basic Water Safety skills
- Assist with a backboard rescue
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