Artistic Swimming – swimming teaching activities by stage

A specialist pathway after Learn to Swim Stage 7 introducing artistic swimming: body awareness, sculling, body positions, rotations, transitions, rhythm, working with a partner and simple sequences. Stage organisation is for navigation and resource discovery only – SwimShare is an independent community resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Swim England. Outcomes shown are SwimShare focus areas, not official award criteria.

• Artistic Swimming – Stage 8 – 31 activities. Getting started with artistic swimming: body awareness, balanced floating, standard and support sculls, basic body positions, controlled rolls and turns, and moving in time with a partner. Outcomes are SwimShare focus areas.
• Artistic Swimming – Stage 9 – 35 activities. Developing control: sculling in different positions, body positions with full extension, smooth transitions, controlled submersion and surfacing, rotations and moving to counts. Outcomes are SwimShare focus areas.
• Artistic Swimming – Stage 10 – 30 activities. Putting it together: linking positions and transitions into short sequences, swimming in patterns, synchronising with a partner or small group, surface presentation and introductory choreography. Outcomes are SwimShare focus areas.

SwimShare is an independent community resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Swim England.