Fundamental Aquatic Skills

Gives participants success with fundamental skills.

• Enter water by stepping or jumping from the side
• Exit water using ladder, steps, or side
• Fully submerge and hold breath
• Bobbing
• Open eyes underwater and retrieve submerged objects
• Front, jellyfish, and tuck floats
• 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
• Change direction of travel while swimming on front or back
• Tread water using arm and leg actions
• Combined arm and leg actions on front and back
• Finning arm action on back
• Staying safe around aquatic environments
• Don’t just pack it, wear your jacket
• Recognizing an emergency
• How to call for help
• Too much sun is no fun
• Look before you leap
• Think so you don’t sink
• Reach or throw, don’t go
• Think so you don’t sink
• Think twice before going near cold water or ice
• Wave, tide or ride, follow the guide

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