Pups: Lesson Transition (ages 5-8)
This developmental program is designed to introduce athletes to the sport of swimming and to provide a transition to the sport from swimming lessons. It is expected that swimmers will be able to swim proper freestyle and backstroke. The focus of this program will be improving stroke technique introduction of breaststroke and butterfly, proper starts and turns, and swim practice etiquette.
The competition focus is on YMCA dual meets and Yankee Clusters.
Prerequisites:
- Continuous 25-yard swim using freestyle or breaststroke
- Continuous 25-yard swim using backstroke
- Willing to jump into the pool
Required Equipment:
- Kickboard
- Pull Buoy
All swimmers are required to wear goggles. Female swimmers will be strongly encouraged to wear a cap- the cap must be latex or silicone. Males will not be required to wear caps unless their hair is longer than shoulder length (although there will be mandatory cap days because all swimmers must wear a WFYD cap at meets).
A reminder that females must wear one-piece bathing suits that are meant for training (please do not have your swimmers wear suits that have tassels/beads/etc. on them as they will fall off!). Males must wear jammers (no swim trunks that you would wear to the beach, for instance).
