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STAGE 1
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Hurst Teaching Pool
Malden Centre Teaching Pool
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STAGE 1 REQUIREMENTS
- Becoming water confident with and without goggles
- Basic prone & supine body & head position
- Fully submerge to sit on floor
- Learning aquatic breathing
- Floating and kicking on front and back unaided
- Learning to streamline the body
- Learning how to rotate through the horizontal axis
- Performing a Mushroom float
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STAGE 2
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Hurst Teaching Pool
Malden Centre Teaching Pool
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STAGE 2 REQUIREMENTS
- Front Crawl & Backstroke arms introduced
- Learning to push & glide from wall
- Travelling across the length of pool without stopping
- Introducing Front Crawl breathing
- Learning the undulating Butterfly body movement
- Introduction to breaststroke leg kick
- Introduction to basic sculling styles
- Performing a range of floating positions
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STAGE 3
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Malden Centre Teaching Pool and
Main Pool Shallow End - WIDTHS
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STAGE 3 REQUIREMENTS
- Improving the breathing & timing of Front Crawl
- Further developing Backstroke timing
- Improving timing of Breaststroke legs & breathing
- Introduction to Breaststroke arms
- Improving the Butterfly kick
- Improving the underwater push & glide from wall
- Learning to forward roll through vertical axis
- Improving the sculling ability on the back
- Getting used to deeper water
- Learning to perform a handstand
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STAGE 4
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Malden Centre Main Pool
Middle to Deep End - WIDTHS
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STAGE 4 REQUIREMENTS
- Developing stroke timing for Breaststroke
- Introducing the arm action in Butterfly
- Improving the recovery and timing of Front crawl arms
- Developing the underwater push & glide on back
- Developing a stronger alternating kicking action
- Developing the forward tuck and roll
- Introduction to Treading water
- Continued development of Sculling
- Learning to perform a pencil jump
- Learning to perform a handstand position in deep water
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STAGE 5
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Malden Centre Main Pool
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STAGE 5 REQUIREMENTS
- Building swimming on all strokes up to 25 metre distance with
- correct stroke timing
- technique emphasized over speed
- Improving ability to kick
- alternating (Front Crawl & Backstroke)
- symmetrical (Breaststroke)
- undulating (Butterfly)
- Improving underwater push & glide for all strokes
- introduction to using fly kick in underwater phase (Freestyle, Breastroke and Butterfly)
- Introduction to Tumble Turns
- Introduction to basics of Diving from pool deck
- Learning how to perform both a head first and feet first Surface Dive
- Improving treading water and sculling abilities
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STAGE 6
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Malden Centre Main Pool
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STAGE 6 REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to swim 100m front crawl with good stroke timing & technique
- Ability to swim 25 metres all strokes with correct timing & technique
- Introduction to Backstroke finishes (arm & body position)
- Improved efficiency of the flip turn (tumble turn)
- Introduction to Breaststroke & Butterfly hand position for turns and finish
- Treading water for 1 minute
- Introduction to racing dive (track & grab starts) from pool deck
- Advanced sculling techniques
- Ability to kick 25m on all strokes
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