Sheppard Swim School - Schedules Scroll

LEVEL	AWARENESS OF	INTRODUCES	REINFORCES
1	The water environment	Floating and breathing	Not applicable unless child has been to the Adult & Child lessons.
2	The underwater environment	Submerging and manoeuvrability with no assistance in water	Being safe around water, building confidence
3	Moving through the water	Freestyle and Backstroke and a greater confidence with entries	Floatation skill and being confident underwater
4	The swimming strokes	Being upside down, and treading water & diving	Varied methods of entry
5	Orientation of the body in water	Basics of tumbling & streamlining	Swimming & kicking on the front and back
6	Linking skill, timing and distance.	Undulation & sculling & use of good technique in the swimming strokes	Manoeuvrability underwater & builds on diving techniques
7	Personal safety in water	Continuous for 50m and personal survival	Butterfly stroke & varied methods of moving through water
8	Competence in water	Rhythm, endurance and underwater swimming	Streamlining, sculling & pulling technique.
BRONZE PRE-COMPETITIVE	Four competitive strokes, underwater dolphin kick, starts, turns. Stretching.	Refining technique and fitness. Esp. in underwater dolphin kicking	Timed swims, IM turns, timed underwater kicks
SILVER PRE-COMPEITIVE	Four competitive strokes, underwater dolphin kick, starts, turns	Refining technique and fitness. Esp. in underwater dolphin kicking. Stretching.	Timed swims, IM turns, starts refined, underwater kick speed
GOLD PRE-COMPETITIVE	Balance in all strokes, timing, breathing strategies.	Refining technique and fitness. Esp. in underwater dolphin kicking. Track starts, alternative turns.	Timed endurance & sprint swims, IM event strategy, timed kicks;speed/endurance.
Competitive swimming class Arion Aquatics	Test sets, Lactate sets, speed sets, endurance swims. Training etiquette.	Race Pace. Timing. Specialised drills. Scapular stabilization exercises.	All techniques in all areas of competitive swimming.

Our Lesson Blocks:

You will note that levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 are run at the same time. This will ensure that as your child progresses you will continue to come to the pool at the same time. This is also the case in levels 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Pre-competitive

Our pre-competitive lessons will prepare a young swimmer to be competent in all areas of competitive swimming. A special emphasis will be on stroke ‘balance’ and ‘timing’. These areas are critical to future competitive success. We endeavour to make our swimmers completely competent at all strokes, and in particular underwater dolphin kicking. Each level of pre-competitive will have targets to achieve prior to moving to the next level. These will be ‘coached’ and ‘instructed’ by qualified competitive swimming coaches. The levels of pre-competitive swimming are:

Bronze, Silver & Gold

Payment:

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