ACADEMY 1

Sessions:

Criteria	Working Towards
50% attendance
Basic understanding of all four IM strokes	Understanding of all four competitive strokes
Be able to kick efficiently on all four strokes, including simultaneous breaststroke and butterfly legs	Able to maintain integrity of kick on all four strokes across 25m and when doing full stroke
Capable of side breathing in front crawl	Able to hold a decent integrity of stroke across 25m for Free, Breast, Back, 15m Fly
Work on developing a good body position in the water across all four strokes	Able to maintain a good body position in the water across all four strokes
Able to swim 25m of front crawl and backstroke, and 25m breaststroke kick	Be capable of swimming a continuous 100m using 2 or three different strokes
Basic understanding of starts and turns, including a sitting or standing dive from poolside	Understanding of competitive starts and turns, working towards being capable of performing a tumble turn at the wall and kneeling dive
Jump off poolside in a streamlined position	Jump off start blocks in a streamlined position
Introduction a forward somersault, tucked	Push from a wall into a front streamlined position underwater
	Push from a wall into a back streamlined position underwater
	Perform horizontal head first scull on back
	Basic understanding of the pace clock and how to use it
	Representation at club championships

*Subject to the discretion of the Head Coach