Swimming levels - what is "bronze"?

[AChickenCalledKorma]

Please can someone that understands the ASA swimming awards explain what my daughter is doing?!

She has been working her way fairly rapidly up the classes at our local swim school. The last badge she got was about a year ago and was Stage 4.

I was thinking about registering her for a summer holiday course (for which I'd need to know her level) so asked her teacher today what level she was on. He says that her class is preparing for Bronze which equates to a 400m distance.

I've gathered that she has skipped a few levels, but his explanation didn't make total sense and I'm still not sure how it would relate to our local leisure centre summer classes. They appear to go up to Stage 7.

Help!

You do bronze at about level 6 so she's probably at level 5 and working on level 6 I'd guestimate. Once they get to level 7 they can keep working on technique and distance up to level 10 and speed/silver/gold awards

Ooh, mine did their Bronze, Silver & Gold. They are ASA awards normally:

ASA AWARDS SCHEME TEST CONDITIONS
BRONZE CHALLENGE
Section A and B may be competed on two separate occasions, but each Section must be completed without pause and in the order listed.
This group of skills tests the pupil?s ability: -
Section A

1. To jump into water of at least full reach depth.
2. To swim 10 metres followed by a surface dive into water of at least full reach

depth and under water swim for a distance of 5 metres.

1. To tread water in a vertical position for 3 minutes.
2. To scull head-first on back position for 15 metres, with the feet at, or near the

surface throughout. Section B

1. To swim 400 metres using two strokes. A minimum of 100 metres is to be

swum on each stroke.

1. To climb out at the deep end without assistance.

At the lessons my DC go to you go through stages 1-7 and then do bronze, silver, gold (if you want to obv!)

So if she's gone from stage 4 to bronze then that's pretty good. How old is she?

How far can she swim and what are her strokes like? Ds2 is at stage 5 now, working on 6 and bronze. He's swum 400m and his strokes look ok but not technically great, esp butterfly which they are still working on, and he doesn't coordinate breathing well. To give an example of a level 5

Does the leisure centre do the lifesaver awards? There's a junior one that might be fun and a bit different

How far can she swim and what are her strokes like? Ds2 is at stage 5 now, working on 6 and bronze. He's swum 400m and his strokes look ok but not technically great, esp butterfly which they are still working on, and he doesn't coordinate breathing well. To give an example of a level 5

Does the leisure centre do the lifesaver awards? There's a junior one that might be fun and a bit different

Thanks all.

She's 9 (will be 10 next week). Her technique is really good, which has taken us all by surprise because we are not a family that is remotely into swimming! Swimming teacher keeps using her as an example of how to do the strokes. She's done 200m and I reckon could now do 400m. So it sounds to me like she's skipped levels 5/6. They've been doing some of the things Milliways lists so that all makes sense.

Lifesaver awards is a good thought. She'd enjoy that. (And it might come in handy with her little sister who is pants at swimming LOL!)

My DD passed her Gold aged 9, then went to Rookie lifesavers classes, but because she was small she had to keep playing "the body" for everyone to rescue!

LOL Milliways That will be my DD. She'll be 10 next week, but could easily pass for a 7yo, much to her disgust.

Here they do stages 1-7 and if they pass 7 they can do bronze, silver and gold (which are stages 8-10) and also join the competitive swimming team.

They can't do the life saving until they are 10 years old. In life saving it takes a school year to do the life saving bronze and then a year for silver and a year for gold, each one has 3 parts that take a term each. When they are 13 and have passed all nine parts then they go to the senior life saving instead of rookies.

My DS is just starting stage 8 and is joining the swimming team after the holidays.

www.busheyasc.org/badge_syllabus/Challenge%20Bronze-Honours.pdf

i was wondering if someone can help me.... my son has been swimming for a while now and is up to his 800m and has been working to his bronze for over a year now....
Do they have to swim breaststroke for the bronze award?? as this is the only reason they say he's not ready.
ive heard from some people u swim any 2 strokes is this correct or do you have to swim breaststroke???

It probably depends on the establishment i.e. the swimming venue you are using whether they can be made to conform to the National Standards who knows?