City of Lebanon's
Learn-to-Swim Lessons
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We are happy you chose the City of Lebanon’s Learn-to-Swim lessons for your child. Comfort and confidence in and around the water is important for all ages. Our classes are taught through a progression of skills no matter the age of your child. Adult classes are also taught and highly recommended for non-swimmers. Following American Red Cross (ARC) guidelines, ARC Water Safety Instructors and or assistants provide training in basic water safety.
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| Level I: | Introduction to Water Skills |
| Age: | 4-8, 9-12, teens, and adults |
| Purpose: | Help students feel comfortable in the water. |
| Skills Taught: | Basic water safety rules-using a life jacket-submerging mouth nose and eyes-opening eyes underwater and picking up submerged object-exhaling underwater-supported floating on front & back-supported swimming on front and back using arm & leg actions-recognizing a swimmer is distress and getting help.
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| Level II: | Fundamental Aquatic Skills |
| Age: | 5-8, 9-12, teens, adults |
| Purpose: | Give students success with fundamental skills. |
| Skills Taught: | Moving in the water while wearing a life jacket-submerging entire head-front and back glide-treading water using arm and leg motions-recognizing a swimmer in distress and getting help-bobbing in water-jellyfish float-swimming using combined stroke on front and back.
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| Level III: | Stroke Development |
| Age: | 5-8, 9-12, teens, adults |
| Purpose: | Build on skills in level 2 by providing additional guided practice. |
| Skills Taught: | Reaching assist-submerging and retrieving an object-front and back glide-front and back crawl-kneeling or standing dive-rotary breathing in horizontal position-survival float- back float-butterfly-kick and body motion.
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| Level IV: | Stroke Improvement |
| Age: | 6-8, 9-12, teens, and adults |
| Purpose: | Develop confidence in the strokes learned and improve other aquatic skills. |
| Skills Taught: | Safe diving rules-dive from stride position or shallow dive- survival float-back float-elementary backstroke- breaststroke-butterfly-throwing assist-feet-first surface dive-front and back crawl.
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| Level V: | Stroke Refinement |
| Age: | 7-8, 9-12, teens, adults |
| Purpose: | Provide further coordination and refinement of strokes. |
| Skills Taught: | Survival swimming, standing dive (diving progression), open turns on front and back, front and back crawl, performing rescue breathing, tuck surface dive and pike surface dive, front flip turn and backstroke flip turn, elementary backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, sidestroke.
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| Level VI: | Swimming and Skill Proficiency |
| Age: | 8-12, teens, adults |
| Purpose: | Refines the strokes so students swim them with ease, efficiency power and smoothness over great distances. Level 6 is designed with "menu" options. Each of these options focus on preparing students to participate in more advanced courses, such as Water Safety Instructor and Lifeguard Training.
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| Options Include: | Personal water safety, Fundamentals of Diving, Guard Start (lifeguard readiness), Fitness Swimmer.
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| Please use this guide when signing your child or yourself up for swim lessons. Please note that INDIVIDUALS MAY NEED TO REPEAT A LEVEL MORE THAN ONCE BEFORE THEY SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE ALL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THAT LEVEL. For further information on the City of Lebanon's Learn-to-Swim Lessons, please call the Jimmy Floyd Center, Aquatics Department at: 453-4545 ext. 109 |
