Level 4 (6-17 year old)
55 minutes, Pre-requisite: Level 3 skills
Goggles required. No swim shirts.
Level 4 builds on the freestyle and backstroke skills learned in Level 3. Swimmers will increase their endurance and refine competitive breaststroke technique and be introduced to butterfly.
Successful completion of Level 4 requires:
- 75 yards freestyle with proper body position, breathing, and kick
- 75 yards backstroke with proper body position and kick
- 50 yards of competitive breaststroke with proper whip kick, arm pull, and timing
- 50 yards elementary backstroke
- Butterfly with correct timing arms and kicks.
- 100 yards Individual Medley (25 fly, 25 back, 25 breast, 25 free)
- Flip-turns for freestyle and backstroke
- 3 minutes of treading water
- Back Float for 4 minutes
- Standing Dives
- Water safety skills SWIM/FLOAT/SWIM
