District 196 Community Education

If you are unable to find a class to meet your needs, please call us at 952-431-8777 as we can frequently make adjustments to accommodate your requests.

Stroke Refinement

Participants ages 5 and up, learn to swim with refined strokes and increased endurance

Skills:

• Shallow dive
• Head-first surface dives
• Tread water, 5 min, and using legs only 2 min
• Scull on back, 30 sec
• Front crawl, 50 yd
• Elementary backstroke, 50 yd
• Back crawl, 25 yd
• Breaststroke, 25 yd
• Butterfly, 25 yd
• Sidestroke, 25 yd

Exit Skills:

• Perform a shallow dive into at least 9 ft depth, swim front crawl 50 yd. and elementary backstroke 50 yd
• Swim breaststroke 25 yd. and back crawl 25 yd.

Safety Topics: Basic water safety, healthy swimming, safe water entry, helping yourself and other in an emergency, use of lifejackets, safe weather conditions for swimming, and waterpark safety.

Course format:

• Group Classes: Run 45 minutes with 5 students per instructor.
• Semi-Private Classes: Run 30 minutes with 2 students per instructor.
• Private Classes: Run 30 minutes with 1 student per instructor.

Prerequisite: Students must have completed Level 4, or have equivalent skills.

Registration tips: When registering for multiple sessions in a row we highly recommend registering for the same level. Those wishing to complete level 6, the final of Red Cross swim lessons, may do so as part of our REVolution Swimming program.

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