Water competency is a way of improving water safety for yourself and those around you through avoiding common dangers, developing fundamental water safety skills to make you safer in and around the water, and knowing how to prevent and respond to drowning emergencies.

What Does It Mean to Be Water Competent? Water competency is a way of improving water safety for yourself and those around you through avoiding common dangers, developing fundamental water safety skills to make you safer in and around the water, and knowing how to prevent and respond to drowning emergencies.

Becoming a Proficient Swimmer ing to the USA Olympic Swim Team's Swim America program, a safe swimmer is one who can swim using these strokes for 300 yards nonstop. This is an admirable point for any swimmer to reach in their learning progression.

Beginner Hints for how to Become Swim Teachers Be ENTHUSIASTIC. PLAN the lesson. DEMONSTRATE skills and drills. Teach ONE skill at a time. Identify children by NAME. Involve ALL children in an activity. Keep instructions SIMPLE. Maintain eye CONTACT.

This sequence of critical water safety skills, also known as "water competency," are the ability to: Step or jump into the water over your head. Return to the surface and float or tread water for one minute. Turn around in a full circle and find an exit.

ing to the American Red Cross, to be water competent, one must know more than just how to swim. A water competent swimmer has water smarts, swimming skills, and the ability to help others while engaging in water activities in, on, or around any body of water.

SWIMMING SKILLS: Essential swimming skills include being able to enter the water and resurface, controlling breathing, floating, turning, and moving to safety in the water and exiting.