Honiton Leisure Centre - ASA Swim School

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Swimming is not only an essential life skill, but is an enjoyable and hugely effective way of keeping fit. Honiton Leisure Centre offers swimming lessons for all ages and abilities to help the swimmer build confidence, increase fitness, and have fun along the way.

The ASA Teaching Plan enables swimmers - young and old - to develop a wide range of skills in the recognised swimming strokes. The emphasis on developing a feeling of ‘being at home in the water’ and of experimenting with a variety of movement patterns , ays a solid foundation for developing a skillful swimmer.

The Stages

DUCKLINGS: Water Activities for adults and pre-school children. Providing the accompanying adult with the knowledge and skills required to help the child gain confidence, competence and independence in the water.

STAGE ONE: Developing basic safety awareness, basic movement skills, and water confidence skills. Swimmers may use aids, e.g. arm bands, floats, etc.

STAGE TWO: Developing safe entries to the water, including jumping in, basic floating, travel front and back (up to a distance of 5 metres), plus rotation to regain upright positions. Swimmers may use aids, e.g. arm bands, floats, etc.

STAGE THREE: Developing safe entries including submersion, travel (up to 10 metres on the front and back), progress rotation skills, and water safety knowledge. At this stage, the swimmer will be assessed without the use of aids or support.

STAGE FOUR: Developing the understanding of buoyancy through a range of skills, refining kicking technique for all strokes, and swimming 10 metres to a given standard as directed by the ASA.

STAGE FIVE: Developing ‘watermanship’ through sculling and treading water skills and complete rotation. Also performing all strokes for a distance of 10 metres to the given standard, as provided by the ASA within the NPTS resources.

STAGE SIX: Developing effective swimming skills including coordinated breathing across all strokes, plus swimming a distance of 25 metres using a stroke of the swimmers choice, developing the water safety aspects, and understanding of preparation for exercise.

STAGE SEVEN: Developing quality stroke technique up to 100 metres, incorporating skills learnt and combining them to develop a linked routine and complete successfully an obstacle course that combines a variety of skills accomplished throughout stages 1 to 7.

STAGES 8-10: Once the swimmer has developed the core range of skills required to be confident, competent and safe in the water through stages 1 to 7, the swimmer may then have the choice to take part in different aquatic disciplines.

FUNDAMENTAL SPORT SKILLS, STAGES 8 - 10 of the NPTS are available in Competitive Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Rookie Lifesaving. Dependent on each leisure facility, all or some of these opportunities may be available.

Stages 8, 9 and 10 of the NPTS are discipline specific and have synergy with the grass roots programmes developed by the disciplines to support their individual sport. These are as follows:

• Rookie Lifeguarding
• AquaFun = Synchronised Swimming
• Water Polo

ADULT BEGINNERS: Structured lessons for ages 18 and over to acquire the basic swimming strokes and build water confidence.

ADULT IMPROVERS: Building on skills and encouraging more efficient use of strokes to allow smoother and more effective movement in the water.

Why not take that step and enrol yourself or your child in lessons to gain water confidence and fitness.

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