Resource person: Mary Dixon - mdixon@daytonymca.org

Description:

Youth Level 5

LEARN-TO-SWIM LEVEL 5 STROKE REFINEMENT (ages 6-12)

In Level 5, participants refine their performance of all six strokes (i.e., front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke, and sidestroke) and increase the distances that they swim. Participants also learn to perform flip turns on the front and back.

Available spots: 7 out of 8

Price: $30.00 - $60.00

Required age: 6 - 14 years old on the day of the activity

Notes: When arriving for lessons, please enter through the locker rooms and wait in the corridor between the pool and the locker rooms until class start time.

Prerequisites: Completed Level 4 Exit Skills Assessment with Certified Water Safety Instructor 1. Perform a feet first entry into deep water, swim front crawl for 25 yards, change direction and position as necessary and swim elementary backstroke for 25 yards. 2. Swim breaststroke for 15 yards, change direction and position as necessary and swim back crawl for 15 yards. 3. Submerge and swim a distance of 3 to 5 body lengths underwater without hyperventilating, return to the surface, then exit the water.

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