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Sunset Cabana Club offers daytime and evening group swimming lessons to our club members. Group lessons are a fun way to enhance your child’s swimming skills and interaction with other children often inspires improvement. Our classes have low student/instructor ratios and are taught in a wonderful setting by friendly staff who will make learning fun for all ages and abilities. Learning to swim is a great way to have fun, stay fit and stay safe! Click here for Swim Lesson Form

Sunset Cabana Club Swimming Lesson Skill Levels

LEVEL I – TINY TOTS

This class is designed for beginning swimmers ages 3 and 4. Students under the age of three only with the consent of the manager/instructor.

• Water adjustment – fully submerge face, 3 seconds
• Bubble blowing
• Underwater exploration – opens eyes under water
• Supported flutter kick on front
• Supported flutter kick on back
• Hold breath 10 seconds
• Supported prone float
• Supported back float
• Rhythmic breathing – 10 bobs
• Enter/exit independently using ladder, steps, side of pool
• Jumps into waist deep water assisted
• Prone glide – torpedo
• Beginning arm movements on front and on back
• Safety skills – WS rules, getting help, reaching assist – no eq., release cramp, enter shallow water with life jacket.

LEVEL IIA – BEGINNER

This class is designed for beginning swimmers ages 5 and up.

• Bubble blowing
• Open eyes under water
• Picks up object from pool bottom
• Hold breath 10 seconds
• Rhythmic breathing – 10 bobs
• Flutter kick on front, with kickboard
• Supported flutter kick on back
• Prone float with recovery
• Back float with recovery
• Jellyfish and turtle floats
• Enter/exit independently using ladder, steps, side of pool
• Jump into waist deep water
• Safety skills – WS rules, getting help, reaching assist – no eq., release cramp, enter shallow water with life jacket.
• Prone glide – torpedo
• Prone glide with kick – torpedo
• Introduce/improve arm strokes on front and back
• Introduce side breathing on wall
• Safety skills – WS rules, getting help, reaching assist – no eq., release cramp, enter shallow water with life jacket.

 LEVEL IIB – BEGINNER

This class is designed for swimmers who have passed the “A” class or who already have those skills.

• Rhythmic breathing – 10x head to side, on wall
• Back float, 10 seconds with recovery
• Back glide with kick, arms at side OK
• Back glide with finning
• Introduce/improve arm strokes on back
• Turning over, changing direction
• Jump into deep water, level off, swim to instructor
• Treading water, 30 seconds
• Proper and effective crawl and arm strokes
• Semi-coordinated breathing with arm stroke and kicking
• Safety skills – WS rules, getting help, reaching assist – no eq., release cramp, enter shallow water with life jacket.

 LEVEL IIC – BEGINNER

This class is designed for swimmers who have passed the “B” class or who already have those skills.

• Combined stroke on back 10 yards
• Crawl stroke 25 yards with correct side breathing
• Treading water, 1 minute
• Knee or standing front dive and 20 foot swim
• Jump into deep water, level off, swim 15 yards, change direction, turn over and float/fin/rest for 30 seconds, swim back to starting point, unassisted
• Basic water safety rules
• Safe diving rules
• How to get help
• Reaching and extension assists
• Release cramp
• Enter water w/ life jacket
• Observe artificial respiration

LEVEL III – ADV. BEGINNER

This class is designed for swimmers who have passed the Level II/Beginner class or who already have those skills.

• Elementary backstroke kick, knees below surface, feet flexed, toes out
• Elementary backstroke arm strokes
• Coordinated elementary backstroke, 25 yards
• Improve/refine crawl stroke, 50 yards
• Improve/refine back crawl stroke, 25 yards
• Treading water, 1 minute
• Standing front dive and swim underwater, 15 feet
• 10 bobs in water over head to travel to safe area
• Prone glide with push off, 3 body lengths
• Back glide with push off, 3 body lengths
• Introduce front open turn
• Introduce back open turn
• Review all prior safety skills, learn how to open the airway for artificial respiration

LEVEL IV – INTERMEDIATE

This class is designed for swimmers who have passed the Level III/Adv. Beginner class or who already have those skills.

• Improve/refine elementary backstroke, back crawl and crawl stroke, 50 yards
• Foot flexed, toes out breaststroke kick
• Effective sidestroke kick
• Breaststroke arms
• Sidestroke arms
• Coordinated breaststroke, 25 yards
• Coordinated sidestroke, 25 yards
• 10 deep water bobs
• Back float, 1 minute
• Treading water, 1 minute
• Front/side/back open turns
• Scull on back, 10 yards
• Underwater swim, 15-20 feet
• Standing front dive
• Survival stroke and float, 3 minutes
• 5 minute swim
• Review all prior safety skills, learn artificial respiration, how to put on PFD in deep water, observe use of backboard

LEVEL V – SWIMMER

This class is designed for swimmers who have passed the Level IV/Intermediate class or who already have those skills.

• Improve/refine all prior strokes
• Breaststroke, 50 yards
• Sidestroke, 50 yards
• Back crawl, 50 yards
• Elementary backstroke, 50 yards
• Crawl stroke, 100 yards
• Inverted scissors kick
• Sculling – snail and canoe
• Open turns – front, side, back
• Dolphin kick, 25 yards
• Butterfly arm strokes, head tucked
• Coordinated butterfly stroke, four beat stroke okay
• Surface dives – pike and tuck
• Feet – first surface dives
• Long shallow dive
• Stride jump
• Survival stroke, 5 minutes clothed
• Underwater swim, 25 yards
• 15 minute swim
• Review all prior safety skills, demonstration of CPR, disrobe and utilize clothing

 LEVEL VI and VII – ADV. SWIMMER

This class is designed for swimmers who have passed the Level V/Swimmer class or who already have those skills.

• Improve/refine butterfly stroke, two beat, 25-50 yards
• Improve/refine all prior strokes, 100 yards each
• Overarm sidestroke, 50 yards
• Inverted breaststroke, 50 yards
• Trudgen stroke, 50 yards
• 30 minute swim
• Survival float, 10 minutes clothed
• Running front dive
• Review/improve all open turns
• Review/improve all dives
• Introduce front flip turn
• Introduce competitive breaststroke speed turn, 2 hand touch, 1 underwater stroke, etc
• Treading water, 3 minutes using a different kick each minute
• Review all prior safety skills, spinal injury safety, assist lifeguard w/ back boarding, practice w/ all rescue equipment