Basic Goals for your Child to Become a Good Swimmer

• Be able to swim 500yd. or more
• Be able to tread water 15+ minutes
• Know two self-rescue strokes
• Know how to use swimming as a lifetime fitness and self-rescue tool

At Macher Swim School we teach for these goals with every student!

Youth Lessons: Course Content

Tots

• Accompanied by at least one parent
• Water adjustment skills
• Body position and balance in water
• Back floats
• Swimming on front
• Jump from side and swim and more

Beginners

• Water Adjustment: breath control, horizontal posture/balance, standing/ walking in water, face in water to ears
• Kicking with board, proper body position, and propulsive kick
• Front crawl: glide, kick, and pull to 15’ unassisted
• Back float and introduction of elementary backstroke
• Jump into and climb out of pool
• Sitting and kneeling dives into pool

Advancing Beginners

• Front glide and balance refinement
• Breathing to the side with kickboard
• Unassisted front crawl with above-surface arm recovery 25’ or more
• Breathing to the side during front crawl
• Unassisted back float, minimum 4 seconds
• Elementary backstroke 10’ or more
• Jump from side, swim back to wall
• Introduction of sitting, kneeling, and standing dives

Junior Swimmers (formerly Advanced Beginners)

• Improve body balance and streamlining in front crawl and elementary backstroke
• Improve breathing to the side in front crawl
• Front crawl 50’ or more with regular breathing pattern
• Elementary backstroke 30’ or longer
• Introduction of back crawl and breaststroke
• Back float 10 seconds or longer
• Tread water 10 seconds or longer
• Refine kneeling and standing dive technique

Low Intermediates

• Front crawl 100’ or more, bilateral breathing
• Side-stroke introduction as self-rescue skill
• Back crawl and breaststroke 50’ or more
• Surface dive to 5’ and retrieve object
• Additional safety skills

Intermediates

• Front crawl 100yd or more, bilateral breathing
• Back crawl, breaststroke, and sidestroke 50yd or more
• Introduction of butterfly, swim up to 25’
• Introduction of freestyle and backstroke flip turns
• Introduction of racing start from blocks
• Tread w/ egg beater kick 1m or more

Swim Squad

• Improve stroke technique in freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly
• Learn how to use swimming as a fitness tool with training equipment and techniques:  pace clock, pull buoys, hand paddles, loop swimming, heart rate, and more.
• Learn how to swim a legal individual medley
• Refine competitive techniques such as racing starts, flip turns, underwater travel, and more.