Learning to swim, a guarantee of lifelong water fun.
Why is it important that you learn to swim? In the first place because it can save your life if you fall into the water. But especially because it is pleasant to move in the water and because it is a particularly healthy sport, for body with Lifeguard Course.
Learning to swim contributes to the motor development, safety and self-reliance of every child.
Swimming is best learned by taking enough time and working in several steps.
1. Water habituation
In the first place, the child has to get used to the water . Water habituation is the basis for a lifetime of fun in, on and around the water. In most clubs, water habituation is started from the age of 3.5 to 4 years.
2. Learning to survive and water safety
Once the child has become accustomed to water, it is taught the necessary skills for 'learning to survive' and being 'water-safe'. You will also find these terms on our swimming certificates . At the end of the trajectory, the child masters all so-called 'aquatic' basic skills: it can enter the water independently (and also come out), float (on the stomach and on the back), breathe rhythmically, come to balance, streamline, thrust with the legs and thrust with the arms. The child is now much less at risk of a drowning accident, but supervision remains necessary.
3. Learn to swim
From his 5th birthday, the water-resistant child is ready to learn to swim in an official swimming stroke. Unlike before, but based on scientific research, we start with backstroke as a basis. This is followed by crawl (5 to 6 years) and breaststroke (6 to 7 years).
Does your child want to continue swimming afterwards? Then sign up for a follow-up course in one of our clubs, where recreational and competitive swimming sports are practiced in a playful way. In this way, your child can continue to enjoy one of the healthiest sports that exist for a lifetime.
In competitive swimming, the distances and the swimming strokes differ. There are different categories for these competitions with Lifeguard Certification USA.
♦ Freestyle
♦ Butterfly Stroke
♦ Backstroke
♦ Breaststroke
The usual swimming distances are 50, 100 and 200 meters; but in the freestyle (where you can decide for yourself which stroke is being swum) you can also swim 400, 800 and 1500 meters.
It is also possible to swim in open water (competition). The distances are larger and can be 2 km, but are also possible in a marathon variant of more than 80 km.
WHERE CAN COMPETITIVE SWIMMING BE PRACTICED?
You can usually practice competitive swimming at a swimming club . These often have a fixed location and rent bathing water from the local swimming pool.
In a pool of 25 or 50 meters you will work under the guidance of an experienced swimming trainer to improve the swimming strokes, the turning points, handy tricks and swimming faster from a distance.
Competitive swimming is also a fun sport for adults to practice. This sport is suitable for all ages and can be done at a high level, but also at a recreational level. Ask an association in your area about the possibilities.