Intermediate / Advanced Series

Designed for students who have moved passed the earlier series. This series focuses on developing stamina, technique, and speed. Students may also develop skills for more advanced swimming strokes such as the butterfly and diving.

Students must be able to complete all Splisher, Splasher, and Paddler tasks to be eligible for this class.

Basic Swim Test

• Enter the pool and recover, swim two lengths of frontstroke

• Enter the pool and recover, swim two lengths of breaststroke

• Wall start, swim two lengths of backstroke

• Wall start, swim two lengths of sidestroke

Butterfly

• Basic body movement

• Prone float with butterfly kick

• Butterfly arms with no kick

• Combined butterfly stroke

Competitive Starts

• Dive from standing

• Racing dive

• Backstroke start

• Racing dive into all strokes

• Breaststroke pull out

• Frontstroke flip turn

• Backstroke flip turn

Stamina

• Complete two or more laps of the same stroke

• Complete two or more laps of different strokes

All skills should be demonstrated with confidence on the part of the student. Any movement should be completed over a length of two or more student body lengths.