{"id":885,"date":"2019-05-25T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobartymca.org\/?p=885"},"modified":"2019-05-25T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T18:33:16","slug":"june-swim-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/2019\/05\/25\/june-swim-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"June Swim Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Don&#8217;t wait! June Swim Lessons Are Filling Up Fast!<\/h2>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/operations.daxko.com\/Online\/5183\/ProgramsV2\/Search.mvc?keywords=&amp;program_id=&amp;expanded=categories%2Clocations&amp;coming_soon=False&amp;category_ids=TAG13055&amp;category_ids=TAG9638&amp;all_categories=false&amp;location_ids=B531&amp;all_locations=false&amp;date_ranges%5B0%5D.start=&amp;date_ranges%5B0%5D.end=&amp;birth_dates=\">See all our available lessons here!\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"u5401-9\">Swim Lessons<\/h2>\n<p id=\"u5401-11\">The Y is \u201cAmerica\u2019s Swim Instructor\u201d and the most accessible community resource to prevent drowning and encourage a lifelong enjoyment of swimming. The Y introduced the country to the concept of group swim lessons more than 100 years ago, (1909), and each year, the Y teaches more than a million children invaluable water safety and swimming skills. As one of the largest community-based organizations in the country, the Y owns or manages over 2,000 pools. Thanks to its size and reach, the Y is in a unique position to help bridge the gap in the delivery of swim lessons and water safety education in the U.S.\u2014especially in underserved communities.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"u5401-14\">There are three general categories of Y Swim Lessons:<\/h2>\n<p id=\"u5401-18\"><span id=\"u5401-15\">\u2022\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"u5401-16\">Swim Starters\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"u5401-17\">develops water enrichment and aquatic readiness in children ages six months to three years. This category focuses on developing swim readiness skills through fun and confidence-building experiences. Parents also learn how to supervise children in the water, how to prevent accidents and how to plan for emergencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u5401-22\"><span id=\"u5401-19\">\u2022\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"u5401-20\">Swim Basics<\/span><span id=\"u5401-21\">\u00a0develops personal water safety and basic swimming skills in students of all ages. Swimmers develop a high level of comfort in the water by practicing safe water habits, engaging in underwater exploration, and learning how to swim to safety and exit if they fall into a body of water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u5401-26\"><span id=\"u5401-23\">\u2022\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"u5401-24\">Swim Strokes<\/span><span id=\"u5401-25\">\u00a0introduces and refines stroke technique in older students (school age, teens and adults). Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being and foster a lifetime of physical activity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t wait! June Swim Lessons Are Filling Up Fast! See all our available lessons here!\u00a0 Swim Lessons The Y is \u201cAmerica\u2019s Swim Instructor\u201d and the most accessible community resource to prevent drowning and encourage a lifelong enjoyment of swimming. The Y introduced the country to the concept of group swim lessons more than 100 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","category-y-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}