Aquatics

Mid-Minnesota Community Aquatics provides parents and children with important and useful information about strokes, skills and water safety. We help teach people to swim, be safe on and around the water, and what to do in the event of an emergency. Our caring and dedicated instructors will help your child enjoy swimming and water safety skills in our positive learning environment.

This class will teach you the basic approaches to diving.  Learn tricks as well as keeping yourself centered and focused on the skill of diving.

Safety topics include pool rules, recognizing lifeguards, and safe water entry.

Skills: Enter and exit the water, blowing bubbles, picking up objects underwater, front/back float, front/back blast off, flip flop (roling from front to back), flutter kick on the wall, treading water motions.

Safety topics include being able to recall parent/guardians names.

Skills: Jump into chest deep water and return to the edge of the pool, bob underwater and hold breath, front/back float, flip flip (rolling from front to back and back to front), flutter kicks with kick board, treading water, front/back crawl, breaststroke kick.

Safety topics include helping yourself in an emergency.

Skills: Jump into deep water and return to wall, front/back float in deep end, flutter kick on front/back with kick board, tread water in deep end, front crawl and rhythmic breathing, elementary backstroke, breaststroke kick and arm motion.

Safety topics include basic first aid, and assisting others.

Skills: Feet first surface dive in the deep end, somersault, open turn: front/back crawl, treading water, flutter kick on front/back with kick board, breaststroke kick with kick board, front/back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and dolphin kick. 

Skills: Feet-first surface dive to 7th. and pick up an object, flip turn: front and back, treading water, somersault underwater, underwater swimming, tread water, flutter kick on front and back, whip kick on front and back, dolphin kick, front crawl with rhythmic breathing, back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke and standing dive.

Skills: Must be able to complete all skills from prior levels, tuck or pike surface dive in deep water and pick-up object, front crawl flip turn, back crawl flip turn, underwater swimming, tread water using both whip kick and scissor kick, flutter kick on front and back, whip kick on front and back, dolphin kick, front crawl with flip turn, back crawl with flip turn, elementary backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.