Jerry Long Youth Swim Lessons (5-12 yrs)

This class consists of six skill levels, progressing from beginning water adjustment skills and basic swimming strokes to advanced rescue and water sports skills and competitive swimming strokes. . Our curriculum offers your swimmer a sense of achievement from the start through our stages. Stage 1-Water Acclimation: No skills required. Increase comfort with underwater exploration and introduces basic self-rescue skills performed with assistance. Stage 2-Water Movement: Encourages forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently. Stage 3-Water Stamina: Develops intermediate self-recuse skills performed at longer distances than in previous skills. Stage 4-Stroke Introduction: Introduce basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke. Stage 5-Stroke Development: Introduces breaststroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and sidestroke.