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Drumlins' Swim - Lessons - Level Five: Stroke Refinement
Purpose: Continue stroke refinement and introduce butterfly, surface dives, and springboard diving.

  • Understand rules for safe diving from board
  • Know how to recognize spinal injury
  • Know hip/shoulder support for spinal injury
  • Continue refinement of front crawl, back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke and sidestroke
  • Perform butterfly
  • Practice alternate breathing
  • Swim underwater 3 body lengths
  • Tread water 2 minutes with 2 different kicks
  • Demonstrate basic dives:
         Standing front dive from diving board
         Long, shallow dive
  • Perform the following:
         Breaststroke, 10 yards
         Sidestroke, 10 yards
         Elementary backstroke, 25 yards
         Dolphin kick, 10 yards
         Front crawl, 50 yards
         Back crawl, 50 yards
  • Feet-first surface dive