Learn to Swim

The Learn to Swim program offers swim lessons to children and adults of all abilities beginning as young as six months of age. This program is headed by two of Ventura County's best Swim Instructors Cecilio and Edward Murillo, with a combined 20 years of swim instruction experience and a long list of success stories.

All classes are taught according to the American Red Cross standards, with all swim instructors certified as American Red Cross Water Safety Instructors as well as CPR and First Aid certified.

Levels

Participants will begin their instruction with basic skills,
floating and kicking, to more advanced skills, competitive
swim strokes to survival swimming readiness.

The levels are as follows:

Level 1 – Beginner

Objectives:

• Submerging under water for at least five seconds
• Demonstrate floating on stomach and back
• Kicking with assistance on stomach and back
• Pushing off the wall with assistance using a streamline technique
• Demonstrate front crawl and back crawl technique with assistance

Level 2 – Advanced Beginner

Objectives:

• Submerging under water for at least 10 seconds
• Demonstrate turning over from stomach to back, vice versa
• Kicking without assistance on stomach and back, 10 yards
• Pushing off the wall without assistance using a streamline technique, five yards
• Demonstrate front crawl and back crawl technique without assistance, 10 yards
• Demonstrate elementary backstroke with a breaststroke kick, five yards

Level 3 – Intermediate

Objectives:

• Swim under water, 10 yards
• Kicking without assistance on stomach and back, 20 yards
• Demonstrate front crawl and back crawl technique without assistance, 20 yards
• Demonstrate elementary backstroke with a breaststroke kick, 15 yards
• Demonstrate breaststroke, 10 yards
• Demonstrate butterfly, 10 yards
• Demonstrate effective water treading technique, two minutes

Level 4 – Swim Team Readiness

Objectives:

• Swim under water, 10 yards
• Kicking without assistance on stomach and back, 100 yards
• Demonstrate front crawl and back crawl technique without assistance, 100 yards
• Demonstrate elementary backstroke with a breaststroke kick, 25 yards
• Demonstrate breaststroke, 20 yards
• Demonstrate butterfly, 20 yards
• Demonstrate effective water treading technique, five minutes
• Demonstrate open turns and flip turns for quick wall transitions

Special Needs

As part of our Learn to Swim program, we have also developed a program to help children and adults with special needs including:

• Autism
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Cerebral Palsy
• Down Syndrome
• And any other type of developmental, sensory or physical delay

The program is designed for the participant to work one-on-one with a certified and trained instructor to teach the child or adult how to use muscles and coordinate arm, leg and body motions to excel in water-based activities. Our goals in this program are unique for every participant and the class is designed to increase their success level with patience and versatility. Our intent for the participants range from having participants become water safe to developing advanced swimming techniques.

Limited scholarships are available.

Pricing

All of our lessons are 30-minutes long and offered in both group and private lessons.

Group lessons – Four week session

2 x per week - $63.00
1 x per week - $32.00

Private lessons – Four week session

2 x per week - $155.00
1 x per week - $78.00

Semi-Private lessons – Four week session (maximum of two children per class)

2 x per week - $105.00 per child
1 x per week - $53.00 per child

How To Get Started

Email or call to get started. Lessons are available year round thanks to our indoor warm water facility. Once we have decided on group or private lessons and assessed what level the participant will be placed in, all we need is the Registration Form and the day and time in which you would like to participate.