The Aquatots Sea Dragons has been developed for children that have completed their learn to swim but wish to continue swimming for fitness or competitive reasons. Our Sea Dragon swim squads will work on fitness levels, advanced life saving skills and racing techniques.
A squad training session is 1 hour duration and children can attend more than one session per week if they wish.
Once a term Aquatots offers an in-house carnival for the children to practice their racing skills. There is the option to join the Sea Dragon comp squad. The comp squad also competes at events outside of the Aquatots programs.
With the Aqautots method of learn to swim we have many children moving up through the program that get to a squad level of swimming at a very young age. The idea around our Sea Dragon squad is to keep the kids enjoying the sport of swimming until they are at an age where they make the decision to take their swimming career further. This method avoids an early burn out in our swimmers and has created some unbelievable swimmers that get great results but also have a great passion for the sport.
Our coaches are all fully qualified and passionate about coaching the children. They work on getting the technique right to ensure a fast and effective stroke when racing and build on skills that may one day save their life or someone else's.
The Transition Squad is for children 5 to 7 years of age that can perform all four strokes technically correct. The training session for the Micros is 1 hour and they attend one session per week. The focus for these sessions is on strength, technique and enjoying the sport of swimming while also gaining racing skills and knowledge on advanced life saving skills.
Once a child can demonstrate they are able to swim distance with all four strokes with little to no resistance they will be ready for the Junior Squad
The Swim Fit program is for children 12 years or older. In this group children can swim distance with little to no resistance. They are working on their fitness levels, strength and bringing their lap times down. Some children in the Senior Squad a serious competitors others are doing the training for fitness and or to gain results in school carnivals. The Swim Fit will also be working towards gaining advanced life saving awards.