Pre-School
Your preschooler (ages 3-5) will be accompanied by a swim instructor and learn personal water safety that leads to achieving basic swimming competency, increasing social-emotional and cognitive wellbeing through fun, confidence building lessons. Parents/caregivers will learn water safety and drowning prevention through the importance of supervision.
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Parent with Child
Parent with Child classes are for any adult in a parenting relationship with a child between the ages of 6 months to 3 years old. Infants and toddlers are introduced to the aquatic environment, progressing to exploring body positions, blowing bubbles and fundamental safety skills with YMCA swim lessons. During these classes parents/caregivers learn about water safety, drowning prevention and the importance of supervision.
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Beginner Youth
Beginner Youth lessons are for school-aged students ages 6 – 12. For beginning swimmers, water acclimation, movement and stamina are emphasized until they are ready for the introduction of swim strokes. Through this stage students increase their comfort with underwater exploration and introduce basic self-rescue skills performed with assistance. As they continue, students will continue to focus on forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently. The order of major milestones will be developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water with instructor help; eventually propelling and gliding without instructor help; and then moving toward deep water with arm/leg action, rhythmic breathing and swimming longer distances on front and back. Intermediate students begin with stroke support and development, progressing into stroke mechanics with YMCA swim lessons.
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Advanced Youth
Advanced and Intermediate Youth students begin with stroke support and development, progressing into stroke mechanics with YMCA swim lessons. Having mastered the fundamentals, students ages 6-12 learn additional water safety skills and build technique to foster a lifetime of physical activity. Stroke development introduces rhythmic breathing; and stroke mechanics refines all four competitive strokes while building endurance.
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Teen & Adult
Teen & Adult lessons progress through similar stages as other age groups, but at a pace and delivery more suited the teen or adults age with YMCA swim lessons.
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Private Swim Lessons
Private lessons are available for one-on-one instruction with the student and a YMCA instructor.
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Diverse Abilities Swim Program
We believe that, in our diverse world, we are stronger when we are inclusive of all, including individuals with diverse abilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines an individual with a disability is a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. This is a low ratio swim lesson for individuals with diverse cognitive and/or physical ability. Parents/Guardians may accompany the child in the pool as they work with a YMCA Swim Lesson Instructor to develop skills through fun and confidence-building experiences, while parents learn water safety, drowning prevention and the importance of supervision. Students will learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competence.
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