If you find you do not yet have the stamina to swim vigorously for a full pool length, try starting with swimming half-lengths or pool widths instead. Find items as low as $1.99 by checking out In The Swim’s Clearance section, and enjoy discounts on everything from pool chemicals to equipment and accessories. Whether you’re looking for swim lessons, swim teams, aquatic exercise classes or just enjoy swimming laps, you’ll find what you’re looking for at one of our pools! While a traditional swimming pool has been a popular choice for obvious reasons, many individuals are taking a look at some of the new options available, such as swim spas. Take a look at how our Awards fit together with this useful infographic. Also this year there were reruns of the BBC 2 series Look Around You and the BBC 3 series The Mighty Boosh, and of FOX`s King of the Hill. The Y introduced the country to group swimming lessons over 110 years ago in 1909. Now, as one of the largest community-based organizations in the country, we teach more than a million children, especially those most at-risk of drowning, invaluable water safety and swimming skills each year at our swimming centers.



















We had a woman in our group who had never snorkeled before. The venue was renovated in 2002 to 2003. Bentley Management Group was hired in 2006 to refurbish and install the Olympic Rings on the south side of the Swim Stadium. Fish with streamlined bodies and a stiff, crescent-shaped caudal fin or tail, tend to move rapidly through the water by swishing their tail from side to side. View all water exercise classes. View our Adapted Aquatics page for more information. Swim teams at the Y help both novice and more experienced swimmers improve their strokes and technique through regular practices. Swim Strokes introduces and refines stroke technique in older swimmers (school-age, teens and adults). If this is you, you’ll learn additional water safety skills and build your stroke technique. Deep water classes utilize buoyancy belts for a more supported experience. Our swim lessons are about more than just the techniques and skills. Our child, toddler, and infant swim lessons in Needham offer physical, emotional and intellectual benefits by introducing kids to important life skills in a fun, play-based environment.



















YMCA swim teams offer youth the chance to experience the enormous health benefits of swimming while enjoying the fun, excitement and character lessons that come with being a member of a competitive swim team. Becoming a member of a YMCA Swim Team means fun, fitness and teamwork. The YMCA swim team is a competitive swim program designed to challenge and grow swimmers both in and out of the water. Learn more about our Masters Swim program. There is no doubt that by wearing custom swim caps swimmers are able to attain more pleasant and safer swimming sessions. Swim Basics enables students of all ages to gain basic water safety and swimming skills. In this program, school-age kids learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two benchmark skills-swim, float, swim and jump, push, turn, grab. At swim meets, swimmers go from being program participants to teammates and friends AND compete for personal best`s in the pool! Jr Swim Instructor is a fun and challenging program for youth 11 to 15 years old. Here you’ll learn to be comfortable in the water and develop essential swimming skills through fun and confidence-building experiences. Swim Starters helps children ages six months to three years develop swim readiness skills through fun experiences that build confidence.



















They are about nurturing swimming skills, developing self-esteem and creating positive experiences that will last a lifetime. On June 14, Israel drowned on his second day of swimming lessons at a home in Burke County. Practice your triathlon exit at home so you get comfortable with unzipping and peeling it off. 5 ft, front float 10 seconds, back glide 5 ft, back float 10 second, water exit independently, roll back to front & front to back, tread water 10 seconds near wall & exit. 5 ft to wall with assistance, finis tempo front float with assistance for 10 seconds then recover, glide 5 ft to wall with assistance, back float with assistance for 10 seconds then recover, water exit independently, roll back to front & front to back with assistance. Qualifications: (1) able to float on front & back unassisted, (2) able to push off the wall on stomach with face submerged for 10 feet unassisted, (3) able to Swim-Float-Swim 15 feet unassisted, (4) able to jump into deep water and return to the wall unassisted.