{"id":249,"date":"2019-04-03T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/?page_id=249"},"modified":"2021-03-22T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:40:40","slug":"aquatics-academy-ability-levels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/facilities\/national-50m-swimming-pool\/aquatics-academy-ability-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquatics Academy Ability Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:60px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"font-size:33.3px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;font-size:1em;color:#000000;\">National 50M Swimming Pool<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-clearfix\" style=\"float:left;margin-top:10px;width:100%;max-width:100px;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#00b140;border-top-width:3px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"font-size:25px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;font-size:1em;\">AQUATICS ACADEMY ABILITY LEVELS<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Water Confidence:<\/strong> For children aged 3 to 6 years of age, swim teachers go into the water. Each teacher has a group of max 5 children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beginner 1:<\/strong> For children aged 6 upwards who cannot swim. Children must be able to stand comfortably in at least 3 feet of water. The aim is to get children swimming without floats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beginners 2:<\/strong>\u00a0For children who can swim a little, without floats. The aim of this class is to get children swimming on their front and back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Older Beginners:<\/strong> For children with basic front crawl and back crawl mechanics. The aim is to work on front and back crawl and introduce breast stroke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improvers 1:<\/strong>\u00a0For children who can swim\u00a0front crawl, back crawl\u00a0&amp; Breast stroke. The aim is to\u00a0progress technical skills in these three styles\u00a0and introduce children to deep end swimming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improvers 2:<\/strong>\u00a0For children who have completed Improvers 1. Here we continue to work on technical proficiency, with added time building confidence and strength in deep water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improvers Deep:<\/strong> For children who have completed Improvers 2, Class takes place in deep water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improver Advanced:<\/strong>\u00a0In this deep water class, children will be proficient in front crawl, back crawl and breast stroke. Butterfly technique is introduced at this stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advanced:<\/strong>\u00a0Children must be able to swim 100m Front Crawl, Back Crawl, Breast stroke and Butterfly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advanced Lane level 1, 2, 3:\u00a0<\/strong>Children in level 2 and 3 attend\u00a0two nights a week<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lane Level 1 (25m):\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Able to swim 25m of front crawl, back crawl &amp; breaststroke. Must be able to swim butterfly over short distance. Must be able to do standing dive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lane Level 1 (50m):\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Able to swim 25m of butterfly. Must be able tumble turn. Must be comfortable swimming longer distances.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nTo move to Level\u00a02 Lanes\u00a0(Must attend two nights a week):\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Able to push off &amp; dive with good streamline underwater fly kick. 200m front crawl with tumble turn &amp; proper technique. 100m back crawl with correct turn. 100m breaststroke with correct turn. 25m fly with good technique and 50m with fins. 100m individual medley. 50m front\u00a0crawl kick in under 1:40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To move to Level 3 Lanes (Must attend two nights a week):<\/strong><br \/>\n400m front crawl technique and turns. 200m back crawl and breaststroke with correct turns. 50m fly. 200m individual medley. 50m front crawl kick in under 1:25<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Level 1\u00a0<\/u>(<u>To move into lanes level 1 (25m)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Must be able to swim 25m front crawl, back crawl, and breaststroke<br \/>\nMust be able to swim butterfly over short distance<br \/>\nMust be able to do a standing dive<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>To move to level 2 lanes (recommended attend 2 nights)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Must be able to push off &amp; dive with good streamline underwater fly kick<br \/>\n200m front Crawl with tumble turns &amp; proper technique<br \/>\n100m Back crawl with correct turn<br \/>\n100m Breaststroke with correct turn<br \/>\n25m fly with good technique and 50m with fins<br \/>\n100m individual medley<br \/>\n50m front crawl kick in under 1.40<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>To move from level 2 to SWIM FIT ( recommend 2 nights)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">500m Front crawl technique and turns<br \/>\n400m back crawl and breaststroke with correct turns etc<br \/>\n100m fly<br \/>\n200m individual medley<br \/>\n50m front crawl kick in under 1.25<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":143,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10706,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions\/10706"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulsport.ie\/ularena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}