All swimmer are required to bring goggles and if hair is long enough for a ponytail they are required to wear a swim cap.
The Smilefish Swim School Curriculum
The Smilefish curriculum was developed from Russ' 40 year involvement
in the swimming world and 35 years of working with kids. It has been designed
to allow our students to work their way through the skills while overcoming
any fears and learning how to enjoy the water.
Our three levels are: Beginner, Advanced & Swimmer
Our Beginner Level is
divided into three tiers:
B1, B2 & B3.
The Beginner level classes are designed to take the absolute beginner from possibly being afraid of the water to being comfortable and enjoying the water. The skills learned include but are not limited to going under water, blowing bubbles, back floating, front floating, kicking & hand stroke. The basics of learning all of the swimming strokes. Typically a beginner needs to be about 3 years old.
Our Advanced Level is divided into three tiers:
A1, A2 & A3.
The Advanced Level classes are designed to teach the more common swimming strokes. We teach our
strokes in a progression of skills that will later come together as the complete stroke. The strokes learned include freestyle (front crawl), backstroke (back crawl), sidestroke, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and the tough to learn butterfly.
Our Swimmer Level is
divided into two tiers:
S1 & S2.
In the Swimmer level classes we refine the competitive strokes & teach the proper turns. Upon graduation from S2 a swimmer will be proficient in all the common swimming strokes. If the ultimate goal of swimming lessons is to join the local swim team the Swimmer Level classes will prepare them for that endeaver.
Family Class
A Family Class is a combination of kids from the same family, schoolmates, swim team buddies, neighborhood playmates, etc. The kids can vary in age and/or ability.
A Family Class does require a completely open time slot and those are not always available.
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