These are the skills we work on in our Extreme Water Bug Class. Remember, that if your child has not been swimming during this isolation period, please adjust your initial expectations and start slowly as some regression might have occurred. Once we return to our swimming lessons, your child might also experience some separation anxiety as they have been home with you 24/7 for quite some time. We will all be patient as we work through this transition time
and we are sure that your child will get back on their normal path to
progression soon.
Because of this, we are requiring that all children under 36 months start in a group Parent and Me class or a private class (if they have been in Super Baby or Water Bugs Program), to make sure they feel comfortable, happy and relaxed. Thank you for trusting us to make your child safer in, on and around the water! We can't wait to swim and have FUN with our swimmers again soon!
Extreme Water Bug Skills
- Hand sandwich in front with noodle
- Swimming 16 feet of Rainbows and Rollovers (cycles of 4 arm strokes with 1 rollover breath)
- Arms out of the water on Freestyle
- Proper flutter kick
- Introduction to side breathing with noodle
- Hand sandwich on the back with noodle
- Backstroke for 16 feet with proper head position, proper arm strokes, and proper flutter kick
- Basic dolphin kicks for 16 feet
- Exploring balance and buoyancy with underwater swimming skills: Scuba Drops, swimming through Hula-hoops, and retrieving objects from foot or bottom of the pool
- Jumping in, coming up on back and returning to the wall
- Swimmer must be 48 months old to level up to level 4
- Safety skills and information
