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Utilize these progressions in your swim lessons! Buy the Premium Swimming Lesson plans here, and follow our guides and scripts to get your students to master complicated advanced swimming strokes.

Incremental progressions

How to use them in your swimming lessons

Front Glides

Stand close to the swimmer and let them hold you
Take one step back and make them jump to you, then support them
Take 2 steps back from next to swimmer, and then support when they get to you
Teach how to get to you without jumping UP in the air

Back glides

Head held on shoulder
Head held in hand
Head held by fingertips

Jumps from the side

Seated slide in the pool with help
Standing jump with help, not going underwater
Standing jump with help, face in, but not completely under
Standing jump with 1 hand held help, going underwater completely
Standing jump unassisted until after in the water
Standing jump no assistance, returning to wall.

How to use them in your swim team developmental group

Everything should be built on a foundation of streamline, or soldier position.

Examples:

Lazy Puppet to Streamline to Position 11

Do 10 Lazy Puppets to Soldier
Do 10 Soldiers to Streamline, slowly
Do 10 Streamlines to Position 11

Position 11 to swimming Progression

25 Position 11
25 Position 11 for 5 flutter kicks, then continue kicking and do 1 Freestyle armstroke, do 5more flutter kicks in position 11, then continue kicking and do the other arm 1 stroke of freestyle. Keep no swimming arm in position 11
5 Position 11 for 10 kicks, then do 3 strokes of freestyle, return to position 11, repeat
25 Swim Freestyle, remembering position 11 and returning to it with each stroke.

Suit, Flex, Circle, Squeeze

Sit on the edge, so butt almost falling in
Lean back, legs straight
Do 10x: From Straight to Suit (feet touching wall in water)
Do 10x From suit to flex: very little motion, just turning feet/toes out
Do 10x Now this is the difficult part, from Flex to Straight, but to get there do a circle.