AIDA Silver Dolphin Course: get your children experienced in the water!
The Silver Dolphin course is the second course of the AIDA youth program, the “freediving” path for young fellows, even though Freediving techniques and disciplines are not really introduced.
Fun, safety, relax, water-ship are the real corner stones of this program.
The classroom sessions will introduce the children to new skills compared to the Bronze program, such as buoyancy, diving on a line and equalizing
This course is created for intermediate swimmer.
Therefore the children will learn during this course:
- Submersion and Propulsion
- Breath Control
- Partnering
- Relaxation
- Mobility
- Buoyancy
- Equalisation
- Recovery Breathing
- Signalling for help
AIDA Silver Dolphin Course Details
The most important prerequisite of the whole AIDA youth program is that the Child’s own wish and intent to learn underwater skills are totally respected without any doubts.
For this intermediate swimmer kid course, the maximum time of submersion in underwater swimming and games depend on the age of the children applying to the program
- Price: 240 euro
- Certification, equipment, study material
- 3 lessons of 1 hour organized preferably in 3 days.
The required experience for children to join this course can be summarized as follows:
- being able to exhale into the water, hold their breath while submerged, and return to a stable position to inhale
- being able to demonstrate floating face down in deep water and returning to a vertical position
- being able to demonstrate entering and exiting deep water independently
- being able to swim with a mask and fins while keeping the face submerged
If you think your children are already more experienced in the water, you may consider the Gold Dolphin course, where children both pull and fin along a line, or – if they are older than 12 – the AIDA Junior Program.
PARENTS’ ROLE
The involvement and education of parents or guardians is another fundamental part of the youth program. Teaching proper adult supervision ensures that children become safer water users through these courses.
Therefore, the education of parents is considered just as important as the training of children in the water, since all water activities must always be supervised. After the course, children need appropriate safety measures in place to continue developing the skills they have learned. “Only informed adults can properly guide and advise children.”
