Level 4 — Advanced

Building Confidence for Life

Focus: Advanced Technique • All Four Strokes • Starts & Turns • Endurance • Fitness • Water Safety • Survival Skills • Independence

Level 4 Goals

Level 4 is our Advanced swimming stage.

At this level, swimmers build upon the technique developed in Level 3 and learn to maintain efficient swimming over greater distances.

Our aim is not simply to make swimmers swim further or faster.

We want to develop strong, technically capable, water-safe swimmers who understand their own swimming and can participate confidently in aquatic activities throughout life.

Throughout Level 4 we develop:

• Advanced freestyle

• Advanced backstroke

• Advanced breaststroke

• Butterfly

• Stroke efficiency

• Bilateral and controlled breathing

• Streamlining

• Starts

• Turns

• Increased endurance

• Swimming fitness

• Pace awareness

• Treading water

• Survival swimming

• Rescue awareness

• Fatigue awareness

• Self-correction

• Confidence and independence

Technique • Endurance • Safety • Confidence