Asa swimming badges. What do you have to do for each badge? level 7 plus

[lexcat]

Dd 6 has just started doing 1:1 swimming lessons. Really just taking off suddenly getting the strokes with the breathing. Got her 100 metres badge today and is very keen to get her asa level 7 next. Does anyone know what they have do for this level so I can help dd with her skills out side of her lessons.

this site has all details of all levels

Thanks Starting to be quite a high level of swimming at level 8. Please to say don't think she far off from level 7. good at the head first skull but rubbish feet first. She's never done a somesault in the water so will work on them.

Level 7 is often hard for the ones that aren't breaststrokers. If you can't do the breaststroke kick you HAVE to be able to do all the others. A lot of kids find the sculling exercise quite tricky too.

swimming awards folder

If you buy the folder it tells you what they have to do for each award on the back. The folder has spaces for badges as well as certificates.

tbh if they're really good they just jump all those awards and go straight into a club - ds1 got a couple of distance badges when he was 6 or 7 then suddenly, next thing we knew he was swimming competitively

if she likes swimming, why not take her along to your local swimming club and see how she gets on and how close she is to the standard they need

mimsmum you have just said what i was thinking after reading the OP!
As a kid, i went to swimming clubs from 7yrs old, and swam for the county til university, then national comps. and yes, i went on to be a PE teacher
swimming clubs are fab (and in fact much cheaper than lessons) if she is learning so quickly she would love it, i think! My DS goes to one now, he's 6 like your DD, he enjoys it too.

I don't necessary think clubs are the right place. DS is good at breaststroke and went to a club for about 6 weeks when he was 9. Clubs are more just swimming up and down for an hour, but lessons especially as they get older focus more on skills such as skulling, getting bricks off the bottom, life saving skills. It might just depend on the club, but ds couldn't do badges at his.
If she has a competative nature and wants to do competition and you are prepared to got 2,3,4 nights a week, then a club is the right place, although
But if she wants just to swim for enjoyment then lessons are more fun

DS is going into life saving classes next term to work towards his bronze medallion.

We do badges at our club. They usually go up to level 8 or 9 before moving to a development squad where they can go on to get speed awards in the different strokes and their diving awards too.
The kids that stick with it mostly go on to do helpers courses at 14 and assistant teachers at 16 and often full teachers at 18. The 16 yos nearly all do the pool bronze medallion too but the club doesn't organise this (pool medallion is what you need for lifeguard job in pool and 16 is the youngest you can do it) Part time lifeguard jobs apparently pay quite well compared to their contempories jobs.

I agree Christy. DS1 is not a natural athlete, and despite being taken swimming regularly from being tiny and having lessons from an early age, he didn't actually swim - i.e. take his feet off the bottom! - until he was 6.5!

He had weekly lessons and worked all the way up through the ASA awards and distance awards.

I think 'competitive swimmers' pick it up a lot more quickly, and just 'know' instinctively what to do. DS1 needed to be taught very carefully.

Having said that he is now a fab swimmer. Just before his 10th birthday he did his 800m and passed Level 12 on ASA.

He has now joined the swimming club (as he's completed the top level of lessons), but just the 'training squad': for fun and fitness. He probably won't ever qualify for the competitive squads - but that's fine by me!

He's a far better swimmer than I ever was, despite not being in any sense 'a natural'.

well said snorkle - same for us