Otter Diving 1
(Backstroke)
- Perform three dolphin dives
- Perform a handstand
- Perform a handstand then fall forward into a somersault. (Can wear a nose clip)
- Somersault with a nose clip and teacher assistance
- Somersault twice without stopping, with a nose clip and teacher assistance
- Somersault once unaided, successfully blocking water from entering the nose.
- Push and glide on front, hold streamline position for 5 seconds
- Perform 3 jumps into the pool, to include blind jump and an attempt at a straddle, all in the deep section
- Perform a kneeling dive (with teacher support )
Otter Diving 3
(Breaststroke)
- Submerge to crouch on the pool floor, spring upwards into a glide on the surface in the streamline position
- Spring forwards into glide, pike and then into a handstand; hold in a stable upright position for 3 seconds
- In the deep end: head first surface dive, pike at the hips and glide to pool floor, tuck and place both feet on the floor to spring back up
- Demonstrate a back somersault with assistance and clip if needed
- Perform a push dive, knees bent.
- Perform a push dive over a woggle
- Tuck jump, showing shins grabbed during flight
- Perform 5 jumps into the pool, including a straddle, all in the deep section
Otter Diving 2
(Front Crawl)
- Push and glide on the surface, pike at hips into a handstand
- Demonstrate correct head and arms position for a dive during a penguin
- Perform a kneeling dive from two stacked floats
- Push and glide into a somersault
- Perform a push and glide on back with arms extending over head in the water – hold for three seconds
- Perform a stiff leg standing dive with teacher assistance
- Perform a stiff leg standing dive unaided
- Perform 4 jumps into the pool, to include blind jump and a straddle – legs spread, arms slapping water, all in the deep section
Otter Diving 4
(Butterfly and beyond)
- Demonstrate a back somersault
- Recover an object from the bottom of the pool using both hands, tuck, place feet on the pool bottom and jump up
- Perform a push dive over a woggle from the diving block
- Perform a racing dive with transition into front crawl
- Perform a racing dive from the starting block
- Show a tuck jump, using the block. Hands start and finish grabbed. Arms and legs start and finish straight.
- Execute a successful straddle jump.
- Demonstrate a correct hands grabbed diving entry
- Show a forward and backward roll into the pool
- Perform a straddle jump, keeping the head from submerging