Students in our Sea Otter classes show very strong signs of independence and confidence while meeting our skill requirements. Student’s will be swimming full length laps to increase mental/physical strength and endurance. Dolphin kicks, rhythmic breathing, and intermediate stroke/kick development is practiced. Understanding this, safety is still taught as instructors challenge students to hold their breath longer, swim further, kick harder, and have fun! At this age, terminology is expected to be learned and used. Students will learn how to set and obtain short and long term goals, patience, perseverance, confidence, and listening skills. Our goal is a safe, fun, nurturing environment where little ones can develop sound, positive feelings about themselves and learning.

We use an incremental progression-based curriculum. This allows our students to be comfortably and safely eased into intermediate swimming strokes, techniques, and terminology through skills. Skills are activities designed to help students gradually become more comfortable in the water while learning how to swim at a higher level. This level works to develop a foundation for all 4 competitive strokes with rhythmic breathing.