Fundamental Aquatics Skills
5 - 17 years

• Enter water by stepping or jumping from the side of the pool
• Exit water using ladder, steps, or side of the pool
• Fully submerge and hold breath
• Open eyes under water and retrieve submerged objects
• Font, jellyfish, and tuck floats, face down
• Front and back glides and back float
• Recover from a front and back float or glide to a vertical position
• Roll from front to back and back to front
• Tread water using arm and leg actions
• Combined arm and leg actions on front and back
• Finning arm action on back
• Staying safe around aquatics environments
• Rotary breathing

Prerequisite: Comfortable going underwater, can blow bubbles through their mouth and nose, and are able to float and glide independently.

Minimum: 3  Maximum: 7