Learn to Swim Program For Kids
Florida Swim Company offers private and semi-private swim lessons for kids and teens. Our Learn To Swim program teaches skills in easy progressions starting with full support from the swim instructor and slowly removing the support - just like teaching a child to ride a bike with training wheels and taking them away. Once the child can swim on their own, we will move into stroke refinement to sharpen all of the different swim strokes they have learned.
All swim instructors are certified, insured and thoroughly background checked. You will be given your swim teacher's personal biography and contact information before lessons begin. The ultimate goal is for us to teach your child how to get back to safety if he or she were ever to accidentally fall into a pool or other body of water. We will do this by running children through a few different drills throughout swim lessons to teach the the automatic response of turning around in the water, and swimming back to either the pool wall or pool steps. The benefit of taking swimming lessons in your own pool is teaching your kids every aspect of your pool and how to get to safety no matter where they were to fall in. Swim instructors will challenge your child while keeping lessons fun with different games and pool toys. Check out what skills will be taught below:
Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills
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- Entering & Exiting the Pool Safely / Introduction to “Monkey Walking” Pool Walls
- Blowing Bubbles and Submerging
- Back Floats & Front Floats with Support
- Changing Direction with Support
- Swimming on the Front with Support
- Swimming on the Back with Support
Level 2: Fundamental Aquatic Skills
- Fall Drill 1 – turning around and grabbing onto the pool wall with support
- Fall Drill 2 – turning around and swimming back to pool steps with support
- Back Float & Front Float without Support
- Swimming on Front & Back without Support
- "Swim-Float-Swim" - Flipping from front to a back resting float with support
- Diving for object underwater
Level 3: Stroke Development
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- Fall Drills 1 and 2 without Support
- Comfortably Holding Back Float & Front Float without Support
- "Swim-Float-Swim" without Support
- Refine Freestyle & Backstroke
- Introduction to Rotary Breathing & Treading Water
- Introduction to Breaststroke, Butterfly, Sidestroke, Elementary Backstroke
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- Stroke Refinement: Freestyle/Front Crawl
- Stroke Refinement: Back Stroke
- Stroke Refinement: Breaststroke
- Stroke Refinement: Butterfly
- Stroke Refinement: Sidestroke
- Stroke Refinement: Elementary Backstroke.