The Astoria Sports Complex offers group swimming classes (Maximum 4 students a class) or Private one on one swimming classes for either an hour long session or a half hour session. Child, Adolescent, and Adult: Swimming Classes Teaches swimming classes and personal water safety skills in a logical progression. It consists of six levels. Participants in Beginner 1 are oriented to the aquatics environment and gain some basic skills in each category. Throughout the levels, participants build on the basic skills to learn various propulsive movements on the front, back and side. As the levels increase, participants learn to refine the different strokes and build endurance. Each level includes exit skills assessments that put together many of the skills learned in each level.

• Beginner 1

The objectives of beginner 1 are to learn basic personal water safety information and skills, to help participants feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water safely. In beginner 1, the participants learn elementary aquatics skills. At this level, the participants start developing positive attitudes, good swimming habits and safe practices in and around water.

• Beginner 2

The objective of beginner 2 is to five participants success with fundamental skills. Participants learn to float without support and to recover to a vertical position. This level marks the beginning of truth locomotion skills. Participants further develop simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back that lay the foundation for future strokes. As in all levels, the participant will learn additional safety skills and improve comprehension of previous knowledge.

• Medium 1

The objective of Medium 1 is to build on previously learned skills by providing additional guided practice. Participants will learn survival float, swim and practice in depth the front crawl and elementary backstroke. Participants will be introduced to the scissors kick and dolphin kick and build on the fundamentals of treading water. Participants will also learn rules for headfirst entries and begin to learn to enter the water headfirst from a seated position at poolside.

• Medium 2

The objectives of medium 2 are to develop participants’ confidence in the strokes learned thus far and to improve other swimming skills. In Medium 2 participants improve their skills and increase their endurance by swimming familiar strokes for greater distances. Participants add the arms to the scissors kick for sidestroke. Participants also continue developing the back crawl, breaststroke and butterfly and the basics of turning at a wall.

• Advance

The objective of this level is to develop coordination and refinement of strokes. Participants refine their performance of all the strokes (frontal crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke and sidestroke) and increase their distances. Flip turns on the front and back are also introduced