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Drumlins' Swim - Lessons - Level Four: Stroke Development
Purpose: Develop confidence and competency in strokes and safety skills beyond preceding levels; also, introduce breaststroke and sidestroke.

  • Become familiar with CPR
  • Demonstrate Rescue Breathing (without mouth-to-mouth contact)
  • Perform rotary breathing
  • Practice deep water bobbing
  • Experiment with buoyancy and floating position
  • Demonstrate diving from pool side, from both stride and standing positions
  • Practice treading water with a modified scissors, modified breaststroke and/or rotary kicks (2 minutes)
  • Perform the following:
         Front crawl, 25 yards with rotary breathing
         Back crawl, 25 yards
         Elementary backstroke, 10 yards
         Scissors kick 10 yards
         Sculling on back 5 yards of 15 seconds
         Breaststroke kick, 10 yards
  • Demonstrate turning at the wall