| Beginner |
|
Ages |
6 – 11 years of age
|
Length
of class |
45 minutes |
Spaces in class |
6 students per class |
Requirements |
AN ENTRY LEVEL
PROGRAM for children afraid of water, swim
with water wings or floatation devices or being in
water over their heads. |
Description |
Students will be introduced to and experience
the aquatic environment at and below the interface with
quiet interactions. Learn how to be comfortable under
water, float on backs and stomachs with assistance, safety
jump, and safety skills. They will also interact with
the interface while using breathing applications |
Student
Current Skill level |
- Can walk in 3.5 feet of water
- Can not save themselves in water over their heads
- Swims only when wearing a flotation device
- Does not submerge consistently and comfortably
- Requires assistance to float
|
| Beginner
Plus |
|
Ages |
6 – 11 years of age,
who are not afraid of the water |
Length
of class |
45 minutes |
Spaces in class |
6 students per class |
Requirements |
Will consistently
and comfortably submerge but have not had any formal
lessons OR have graduated from WOW Beginner Programs |
Description |
Children will learn how to integrate breathing skills while in propulsion and
most importantly learn to save themselves in deep water in either an aquatic
signature or back float. |
Student Current
Skill level |
- Sink sit with assistance
- Vertical piano and merry go round bobs
- Hover in a bridge at steps with rhythmic exchange
- X, Y, and pencil back body shapes with little/no assistance
- Pencil glide from steps
- Back set off platform travel in back pencil
- Sink pencil, grow into a bridge return to a foundation
in 5 ft. of water
- Safety jump with a bridge return in 5 ft. of water
|
| Level
1 |
|
Ages |
6 – 12 years of age |
Length
of class |
45 minutes |
Spaces in class |
6 students per class |
Requirements |
Graduated
from WOW BEGINNERS PLUS or as PER EVALUATION
RECOMMENDATION
|
Description |
Strengthen bodyline, balance, and endurance
while integrating breathing in travel and propulsion. Introduce
underwater strokes in back and prone body postures |
Student Current
Skill level |
- Exhale vertical pencil posture, anchor to bottom of
pool, tap up, accept air at the surface, repeat
rhythmically
- Hover for 5 seconds in a bridge, close to a ball and
open to a bridge in 3.5 ft. of water
- Maintain X,Y, I and pencil back body shapes for one
minute
- Quiet propulsion in T,Y, to pencil, 60 feet (Elementary
Backstroke beginnings)
- Quiet propulsion in a back pencil posture, 60 feet
|
| Level
2 |
|
Ages |
6 – 12 years of age |
Length
of class |
45 minutes |
Spaces in class |
6 students per class |
Requirements |
Graduation
from WOW LEVEL 1 or RECOMMENDED PER EVALUATION |
Description |
Attain correct body and breathing positions
for the freestyle, backstroke and elementary backstroke,
harmonic swimming, treading water, deep water exploration,
vertical floats, kneel dives, endurance building, and much more! |
Student Current
Skill level |
- Hover in a vertical pencil shape with breathing exchanges
at interface, (quiet body)
- From an aquatic signature slowly open to X,Y,I and
pencil maintaining axial line
- Body roll from back L to prone L with quiet propulsion
and air exchange (Freestyle Beginnings)
- Tread water (1 minute) to back X body shape (1 minute)
- Kneel dive, I body shape, 3 underwater human strokes,
stop in prone L, exhale, roll to back L body shape
|
| Kids
In The Fast Lane |
|
Ages |
6 – 12 years of age |
Length
of class |
1 hour |
Spaces in class |
8 students per class |
Requirements |
GRADUATED FROM LEVEL 2 or RECOMMENDED THROUGH EVALUATION |
Description |
Focus on a variety of drills designed to
fine tune freestyle and backstrokes. Harmonic swim will
also be worked on as a foundation for learning butterfly
and breaststroke. Breathing and balance are also
incorporated in stroke mechanics. |
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