What You’ll Learn at YMCA Swimming Lessons
The YMCA of Corry offers swim lessons for all ages and stages. Our progressive swim lessons teach swimming skills, stroke technique and water safety while encouraging a lifelong love of the water. Registration is categorized as Parent Child (age 6 months to 3 years) Preschool (age 3-5) and Youth Lessons (age 6 and up)- each child will be tested and placed in the correct stage by our trained instructors. Below are the stages of swim lessons offered.
Swim Lessons - Adult
Swim Lessons - Adult Beginning
For individuals who have never had swim lessons, or are uncomfortable around water.
Swim Starters - Parent/Child Lessons
Accompanied by a parent, infants and toddlers learn to be comfortable in the water and develop swim readiness skills through fun and confidence-building experiences, while parents learn about water safety, drowning prevention and the importance of supervision. Swim starters helps our youngest participants build a foundation for learning how to swim.
Stage A / Water Discovery
Parents accompany children in stage A, which introduces infants and toddlers to the aquatic environment through exploration and encourages them to enjoy themselves while learning about the water.
Stage B / Water Exploration
In stage B, parents work with their children to explore body positions, floating, blowing bubbles, and fundamental safety and aquatic skills.
Swim Basics - Preschool & School Age Lessons
Students learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two benchmark skills:
- Swim, float, swim—sequencing front glide, roll, back float, roll, front glide, and exit
- Jump, push, turn, grab
The three levels within Swim Basics include:
Stage 1 / Water Acclimation
Students develop comfort with underwater exploration and learn to safely exit in the event of falling into a body of water. This stage lays the foundation that allows for a student’s future progress in learning to swimming.
Stage 2 / Water Movement
In stage 2, students focus on body position and control, directional change, and forward movement in the water while also continuing to practice how to safely exit in the event of falling into a body of water.
Stage 3 / Water Stamina
In stage 3, students learn how to swim to safety from a longer distance than in previous stages in the event of falling into a body of water. This stage also introduces rhythmic breathing and integrated arm and leg action.
Swim Strokes - School Age Lessons
Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke techniques, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity.
Stage 4 / Stroke Introduction:
Students in stage 4 develop swim stroke techniques in front crawl and back crawl and learn the breaststroke kick and butterfly kick. Water safety is reinforced through treading water and elementary backstroke.
Stage 5 / Stroke Development:
Students in stage 5 work on stroke technique and learn all major competitive strokes. The emphasis on water safety continues through treading water and sidestroke.
Stage 6 / Stroke Mechanics:
In stage 6, students refine their stroke technique on all major competitive strokes, learn about competitive swimming, and discover how to incorporate swimming into a healthy lifestyle.
Swim Lessons - Private
Private
Private swim lessons.
Swim Lessons - Teen
Teen Advanced
For individuals who can swim up to 25 yards unassisted and show endurance in the water with different stroke combinations.
Teen Beginning
For individuals who have never had swim lessons, or are uncomfortable around water.
Teen Intermediate
For individuals who are comfortable in the water, and able to swim and float unassisted for up to 15 feet.
Teen
Teen beginning: For individuals who have never had swim lessons, or are uncomfortable around water.
Swim Lessons - Youth
Stage 1 / Water Acclimation
For school age children who have never had swim lessons without a parent or guardian, or are afraid of the water.
Stage 2 / Water Movement
For school age children who are comfortable in the water and able to swim and float assisted for 10 feet.
Stage 3 / Water Stamina
For school age children who can swim 15 yards unassisted with face in the water and without a flotation device.
Stage 4 / Stroke Introduction
For school age children who can swim 15 yards unassisted.
Stage 5 / Stroke Development
For school age children who can swim 25 yards unassisted and show endurance in the water with any stroke or combination of strokes.
Stage 6 / Stroke Mechanics
For school age children who can swim 50 yards unassisted and show endurance in the water with any stroke or combination of strokes.
Want to take swimming lessons at the Y, but aren’t sure which stage to enroll in? Contact our Aquatics Coordinator Danielle Wood to schedule a free assessment. A YMCA membership is not required to participate in swimming lessons. Private and semi-private lessons are also available.