Safety Classes:

Preschool 1
Students learn the basic fundamentals with in-water teacher assistance; such as floating, blowing into the water through the mouth and nose as well as submerging their face and basic arm movements for the crawl stroke, 

Preschool 2/Youth 1
Students continue to reinforce and fine tune basic fundamentals with assistance.  They learn to float on their own and to push off the wall into streamline as well as learn the basics of front crawl stroke.

Preschool 3/Youth 2
Students learn to swim underwater as well and are introduced to elementary backstroke. They will learn to roll over independently and swim safely from the deep end of a pool and begin to learn the basic of treading.

Preschool 4/Youth 3
At this level they will be able to push and glide independently for 4 to 5 body lengths as well perform basic crawl for 3 body lengths. They will start treading in the deep end and learn the beginning elements to diving from the side.

Youth 4
Students work through a safe diving progression from a kneeling dive to a compact and stride dive. They will learn to tread water for 45 seconds and be able to swim longer distances, completing a freestyle and backstroke swim from the deep end to the shallow end without stopping or touching the bottom. Basic Dives will be covered.

Stroke Development:

SD 1
At this level, students continue to refine their freestyle and backstroke technique and are introduced to breaststroke and butterfly. At this stage, they should be comfortable with swimming 13 meters Freestyle non-stop. They will learn the basics of butterfly and refine their dives into long shallow dives.

SD 2
At this level, students continue to refine their freestyle and backstroke technique and put together the components of butterfly. They should be able to swim 15 meters of breaststroke with a proper glide.  At this level, students are swimming 25 meters of freestyle with bilateral breathing and 25 meters of backstroke with straight arms, thumb exit, pinky entry, and full body roll. They should be able to do a safety swim of 50 meters. Tread water for 2 minutes and are introduced to open turns.

SD 3
At this level, students will be able to swim 50 meters of freestyle with open turns. Breaststroke for 25 meters with a proper pullout. 25 meters of backstroke. Students should also be able to swin a 25-meter butterfly, breathing every stroke, and have strong, coordinated motion underwater. At this stage, it is ok if they need to do two kicks per pull, but they should breathe every stroke.  Flip turns are added with a streamline push-off, and treading is up to 3 min.

SD 4
Students will be able to swim 100-meter freestyle with flip turns and underwater streamline. 50 meter backstroke with filptun, breastoke should have a poper open turn and pull out and swim for 50 meters. Butterfly distance is also increased to 50 meters with breathing on the pull and kick motion. By the end of SD4, they should be swimming confidently and able swim 500 meters non-stop and tread water for 5 min.

Specialty Classes:

T1
Teen level one will offer basic fundamentals of water saftey such as floating, streamline off the wall, basics of crawlstroke, and treading.

T2
Teen level two will teach deep water swimming skills, swiming longer distances, and diving.

A1
 Adult level one will offer basic fundamentals of water saftey such as floating, streamline off the wall, basics of crawlstroke, and treading.

A2
 Adult level one will teach deep water swimming skills, swiming longer distances, and diving.

A3
Adult level 3 will be an introduction to stroke development. Students will refine their stroke techniques for crawl stroke, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly, learn turns, and swim longer distances.

A4
Adult level 4 will continue to refine stroke techniques as well as introduce structured lap swim workouts.

NEW!!!

Guard Prep

Ever wonder what it take to be a guard? This class will go over fundumentals to get you prepared to take a lifeguarding class here at yost or anywhere they are offered. We welcome teens 11 to 15 to particapate and learn what it take to be a guard. In this class you will work on treading and basic rescues.

Race Clinic

Our program offred in conjuntion with Penguins. The focus here is on key components of a swiming race the Starts, Turns, and pacing.