Class Levels
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Level 1 – Baby & Me Littles
Minimum Age: 4 Months
Working on: Learning to blow bubbles, being comfortable in the water, getting used to being with an instructor
Needed to level up: Must be 14 months
Level 1 – Baby & Me Bigs
Minimum Age: 14 months
Working on: Blowing bubbles, getting used to being with an instructor, getting used to being on a platform, & introduction to assisted safety skills
Needed to level up: Must be at least 24 months old
Level 2
Minimum Age: 2 years
Working on: Breath control with face in the water & eyes looking down; Kicking on barbells/intro to nemos (side breathing); Establishing a productive kick to move through the water; Independent safety jumps from the platform and the wall; Working on back floating.
Needed to level up: Good kicks on top of the water; Come off the platform with face in the water; Independent platform safety jumps; Back Floating for at least 10 seconds; Independent Safety jump from the wall.
Level 3
Minimum Age: 2 years
Working on: Glides/Streamline; Improving kicks and nemos (side breathing); Reinforcing safety skills from level 2; Big arms; Independent flip flops; Getting rings from the bottom of the pool.
Needed to level up: Big arms- all the way out of the water consistently; Consistent, Confident Flip Flops (one pool length).
Level 4
Minimum Age: 3 years
Working on: Glides with streamline; Barbells with perfect nemos; Standing dives; Side breathing; 4 big arms with a side breath; Backstroke kicks; Backstroke arms.
Needed to level up: Independent standing dives; 4 big arms with side breathing (half the pool); Independent backstroke kicks (half the pool); Independent backstroke (half the pool)
Level 5
Minimum Age: 4 years
Working on: Intro to kicking on a kick board; Improving on freestyle; Improving on backstroke; Improving on standing dives.
Needed to level up: Efficient freestyle (one pool length); Efficient backstroke kick (one pool length); Efficient backstroke (one pool length); Getting rings from 4 feet independently.
Level 6
Minimum Age: 5 years
Working on: Kicking on kickboard with proper and productive kicks; Intro to racing dives; Freestyle with dive starts; Improving backstroke kicks (streamline if ready); Perfecting freestyle and backstroke; Breaststroke.
Needed to level up: Strong freestyle (1 lap); Strong backstroke kick (1 lap); Strong backstroke (1 lap); Efficient breaststroke kick; Foundation of breaststroke
Level 7
Minimum Age: 6 years
Working on: Breaststroke with breathing, intro to fly, intro to turns & pullouts, racing dives
Needed to level up: Perfect free & fly, strong breaststroke, fly kick and arms, concept of turns and pull outs, strong racing dive
Level 8
Minimum Age: 7 years
Working on: Perfect freestyle, backstroke & breaststroke, butterfly, strong turns and pull-outs
Needed to level up: Perfect freestyle, backstroke & breaststroke, strong butterfly, strong turns and breaststroke pull-outs
Level 9
Working on: Maintaining technique on all strokes, turns and pull-outs, working on endurance
Needed to level up: Perfect freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, turns, breaststroke pull-outs & dives
Level 10
Working on: Perfect freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, turns, breaststroke pull-outs & dives