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Learn-to-Swim: Sailor 1

Aquatics / Learn-to-Swim -
Winter/Spring 2026

Your swimmer will learn to fully submerge their head, float with assistance and start to use their feet and hands to swim! This is designed to be a child’s first swim class experience without a parent in the water. For inexperienced and/or cautious swimmers, with a focus on becoming more comfortable and safe in the water.

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Level Prerequisites Learnings
Sailor 1 For inexperienced and/or cautious swimmers, with a focus on becoming more comfortable and safe in the water. Recommended for a swimmer's first class without parents in the water.  Swimmers will learn to be in class with an instructor, fully submerge their head, front float, back float, and demonstrate forward movement with assistance
Sailor 2 For swimmers who can voluntarily submerge their head, front float, back float and demonstrate forward movement with little assistance. Swimmers will learn to front float unassisted, back float unassisted, swim unassisted with their face in the water for 5 yards and understand the basics of backstroke.
Sailor 3 For swimmers who can front float unassisted, back float unassisted, swim unassisted with their face in the water for 5 yards and understand the basics of backstroke. Swimmers will learn to swim freestyle with rotary breathing for 5 yards, swim backstroke for 5 yards and perform a streamline glide off the wall.

After passing Sailor 3, swimmers ages 5+ can move up to Skipper 2.

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Minnetonka Middle School West
6421 Hazeltine Blvd
Excelsior, MN 55331

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56-202-S-S1T
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