SwimSafer Stage 5 Silver: Advanced Swimming and Life-Saving Skills
In Stage 5 Stage, well-designed lessons are provided to improve children’s swimming skills and underwater safety knowledge. The focus of this stage is not only to improve stroke movements, but also to enhance the endurance of continuous long-distance swimming. CondoSwimming.sg aims to help children cope with the underwater environment effectively and protect their safety.
What Your Child Will Learn
- Efficient strokes in in front crawl, breaststroke, and backstroke (50 meters each)
- Embracing backstroke and sidestroke survival techniques (25 meters each)
- Proper breathing techniques for long-distance swimming
- Confidence in 1 minute swimming continuously
- Learning a forward somersault in the water
- Developing rescue skills like throwing a life preserver & assisting others safely
- Improving water safety knowledge for both pool and open water situations
SwimSafer Stage 5 Silver Test Sequence
Swim (Use Crouching Dive Entry for FR, BR)
- Swimming using front crawl, breaststroke, and backstrokes for within 1:30, 1:50, 1:40 mins respectively (50 meters each)
- Swimming using sidestroke and survival backstrokes (25 meters each)
- Dolphin kick on front (10 meters)
Silver Sequence (Without Goggles and Dressed in Swimwear, Long Pants and T-shirt)
- Practice a straddle jump into deep water
- Perform a backward somersault submerge using feet first surface dive technique
- 3 meters swimming through hoops on bottom of pool and resurface
- Using front crawl to complete 45 meters swimming quickly
- Signal for help by waving and calling (rescuer to throw PFD)
- Retrieve a PFD in water and put it on while treading water
- Perform Heat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) for 30 sec
- 25 meters swimming with PFD and climb out of the water
SwimSafer Stage 4 Bronze | Improve Swimming Techniques
SwimSafer Stage 6 Gold | Master Long-Distance Swimming
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1. What makes SwimSafer Stage 5 more advanced than earlier stages?
The fifth stage focuses on endurance, speed and rescue techniques. Children will swim further (up to 200 meters in total), learn how to breathe correctly to enhance their endurance, and start rescue operations, such as wearing clothes and life jackets in the water.
2. Why does my child need to swim so many strokes and distances?
Mastering various swimming styles, such as front crawl, breaststroke, backstroke, sidestroke and dolphin kick, can help your child prepare for different situations and build up comprehensive swimming ability and underwater confidence.
3. What is the purpose of practicing the H.E.L.P. position?
H.E.L.P (Heat Escape Lessening Posture) helps to keep your body warm in cold water when wearing a life jacket. This is a key skill in real-life water emergencies, and it is also a part of a child’s survival toolkit.
4. Will my child be performing rescue activities too?
Yes, they will learn basic life-saving skills, such as throwing life jackets at people in need and remote safety assistance, which will help to build awareness and a sense of responsibility in the water.
5. Is Stage 5 too intense for younger kids?
Not at all! Our certified teachers ensure that the courses are age-appropriate, progressive and encouraging. Children are challenged in their own safety zone, and we build their strength and skills step by step.
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