ASA Awards Scheme

Contact us:

Phone: 01442 241 030

Mobile: 07930 424 731

 

E-mail: christine@swimmingforall.co.uk

We have now been running the recently revised ASA National Plan for Teaching Swimming (NPTS) since January 2009

 

It was introduced alongside the old scheme to enable swimmers to continue to improve and to allow a wider range of incentives especially at the lower levels.

 

The current scheme is heavily loaded on learning buoyancy skills, streamlining, and ALL FOUR of the competitive strokes from the beginning which means that it may take a little longer to achieve some of the new awards The first four Stages concentrate on buoyancy skills and body position skills. Leg kick is expected on all four strokes at stage 4 and should comply with current ASA law. It is really important to gain these skills as second nature before they learn the full strokes. Stages 5 - 7 would be the top end of learning to swim and should be a good grounding for entry to a local swimming club, so swimmers should know the basic rules of the sport too. Stages 8,9 & 10 should reflect the skills of a competitive swimmer and would benefit from swimming more that just one half hour session a week.

 

Distance badges will now be available from 5m in all four strokes although the older style distance award will be available until further notice.

 

If you want to read more about the scheme please visit

 http://www.awards.sportcentric.com/

 

NEW GROUPS 2009

Block Stage 1—Ducklings             Orange

Block Stage 2—Ducks                  Yellow

Block Stage 3—Pool Frogs            Green

Block Stage 4—Sea Horses           Pink/Indigo

Block Stage 5—StingRays            Blue

Block Stage 6—Sharks                 Red

Block Stage 7—Dolphins              Violet