SwimSafer Stage 3

Personal & Stroke Development Skills

Objective:
Entry skills such as the stride jump will be taught. Skills include sculling, underwater skills and putting on a personal flotation device (PFD) whilst in water and swimming with it. One of the goals is to achieve 50 meters of continuous swimming.

Get ready

Equipments to Prepare

Shirt

Shorts

Stage 3 Practical Test Sequence

Swim: 50m continuously

  • Swim 25m backstroke, and 25m front crawl

Survival Sequence 3A: (w/o goggles)

  • Enter the water with stride/straddle entry (in deep water)
  • Swim 25m survival backstroke then, 25m breaststroke
  • Scull head-first on the back for 5m and recover
  • Scull, float or tread for another 50 seconds
  • Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 2m swim
  • Resurface and exit safely from pool

Survival Sequence 3B: (w/o goggles)
Dressed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt demonstrate:

  • Swim 25m using survival backstroke or survival breaststroke to a PFD (Face clear of water)
  • Correctly fit a PFD in water, swim 50m with PFD, then climb out of the water

Entries & Exits

  • Stride / straddle entry.

Sculling & Body Orientation

  • Scull headfirst on back, 5m.
  • Scull, float or tread for 50 secs (incorporated in Survival & Activity Skills).

Underwater Skills

  • Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 2m.

Movement/Swimming/Strokes

Swim 50m continuously:

  • 25m front crawl, and 25m backstroke.
  • Swim 25m Breaststroke and 25m Survival Backstroke.

Survival and Activity Skills

  • Scull, float or tread water for 50 sec.

Dressed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt demonstrate:

  • Swim 25m using survival backstroke or survival breaststroke to a PFD.
  • Correctly fit a PFD in water, swim 50m with PFD, then climb out of the water.

Rescue Skills

  • NIL

Knowledge

  • Principles of Personal Safety and Survival.
  • Environmental Awareness.
  • Health Awareness.
  • Emergency Situations and Survival Techniques.
  • Rescues.

Professional!

Coaches are very professional and ensures the kids are well taken care of! Glad to have enrolled with them!

Tang Sen / Google

Dedicated!

Sttitute is the to-go school for swimming classes. I’m immensely grateful to the fantastic coaches who coached my girl through the years and weathered the storms of high PSI and Covid. The swimming school is dedicated to bringing out the best in our kids with their quality teaching and administrative support.

Wei Ling / Google

Fun!

We are absolutely thrilled with our child’s fantastic achievements in the recent Stage 3 SwimSafer test! The progress has been exceptional, and we owe it all to the dedicated coaching team at Sttitude Swim School.

Chee Seng / Google

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