Lakeville Area Community Education

Intermediate 1

(ages 5 and up)

Participants learn to be comfortable with new skills in deep water and learn front crawl, back crawl and elementary backstroke to basic standards of competency. Safety topics include basic water safety, healthy swimming, safe water entry, helping yourself and others in an emergency, use of lifejackets, safe weather conditions for swimming, and waterpark safety.

Skills:

• Jump into deep water
• Kneeling dive
• Survival float, 20 sec.
• Back float, 20 sec.
• Tread water, 20 sec.
• Front crawl, 15 yd.
• Back crawl, 15 yd.
• Elementary backstroke, 15 yd.
• Breaststroke kick, 15 yd.

Prerequisite: Completion of or Beginner 2 or have equivalent skills.