Core Classes
Core Classes
Introduction to Core Swimming Skills
AGUA Swim Academy’s Core Classes are designed to elevate young swimmers’ foundational skills. Targeted for ages 5-16, these classes build upon essential swimming techniques, focusing on refining stroke mechanics, enhancing endurance, and increasing water confidence. With progressive instruction, our core levels guide students from beginner skills to advanced techniques, ensuring they master the fundamentals before moving on to more challenging strokes and distances.
Class Options
Core Level 1
Ages: 5-8, 9-12, 13-16 Years
Prerequisites: Students should have passed our Pre-School Level 3 class, or our Intro to Swimming class, or should be able to perform Freestyle and Dolphin kick with a kickboard, perform side-breathing for Freestyle, and perform Backstroke with straight-arm recovery.
Core Level 1 is designed for young swimmers to continue to refine their strokes and advance their skill sets for water safety, body awareness, and stroke mechanics for Backstroke and Freestyle, including bi-lateral breathing. Through advanced swimming instruction, our students will also continue to develop kicking and body mechanics for freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke kick as well as underwater streamline push-offs.
Core Level 2
Ages: 5-8, 9-12, 13-16 Years
Prerequisites: Students should have passed our Core Level 1 class or should be able to perform Freestyle, Backstroke, and Dolphin kick with and without a kickboard, perform the strokes for Freestyle and Backstroke, and understand basic motor patterns for Breaststroke and Butterfly.
Students in Core Level 2 will become more precise and well-rounded swimmers. Our instructors will continue to advance swimmers’ understanding of lane etiquette through exposure to circle swimming and more repetitions during each session. Students will review body movement and kicking skills for all four strokes and be taught drill progressions to help cement these skills. Students at this level will be asked to kick and swim with a combination of skill and speed.
Core Level 3
Ages: 5-8, 9-12, 13-16 Years
Prerequisites: Students should have passed our Core Level 2 class or should be able to perform kicking for Freestyle, Backstroke, Butterfly, and basic kick motions for Breaststroke with a kickboard and in streamline, and perform circle swimming for Freestyle and Backstroke.
Students in Core Level 3 will continue to refine and advance skills for all four strokes and kicks as well as develop competitive skills such as circle swimming, underwater streamline dolphin kicks, flip turns, and forward dives. These swimmers will elevate their kicking and swimming skills by advancing drill progressions as well as conditioning through quality repetitions with a mix of skill and speed.