The North Clackamas Aquatic Park offers private 1 on 1 swim lessons for swimmers interested in receiving more in-depth training from an instructor.  Our private lessons program give you individualized attention to help improve swimming skills.  Private swim lessons include four-30 minute sessions.  

Pre Req: Any participants who have not taken lessons before or participants who are switching from Seals Intro or Seals because of age. Entry level swimming lesson. Introduces students to basic swimming and water safety skills.

Pre Req: Front Glide - 2 Yards, Back Glide - 2 Yards. Builds on basic swimming and water safety skills while focusing on front crawl, breath control, endurance and introduces students to back crawl.

Pre Req: Back Glide - 3 Yards, Front Crawl - 5 Yards. Begins refinement of front crawl with a focus on rotary breathing. Continues to familiarize students with back crawl, while introducing finning and elementary backstroke.

Pre Req: Front Crawl with Rotary Breathing - 15 Yards, Back Crawl - 5 Yards. Develops student's ability to swim front crawl for increased distances with a mastery of rotary breathing, while continuing improvement in back crawl and elementary backstroke.

Pre Req: Front Crawl with Rotary Breathing - 15 Yards, Back Crawl - 15 Yards, Elementary Backstroke - 15 Yards. Introduces breaststroke, dolphin kick and treading water. Promotes swimming endurance while establishing student's ability to demonstrate front crawl, back crawl and elementary backstroke for greater distances.

Pre Req: Front Crawl with Rotary Breathing - 25 Yards, Back Crawl - 25 Yards, Elementary Backstroke - 25 Yards, Treading without Finning - 1 Minute. Increases swimming endurance in front crawl, back crawl and elementary backstroke, as well as, improves breaststroke and treading water for 1 minute 30 seconds and introduces sidestroke.

Pre Req: Front Crawl with Rotary Breathing - 50 Yards, Back Crawl - 50 Yards, Breaststroke - 25 Yards, Treading without Finning - 1 Minute 30 Seconds. Explores circle swimming, workout equipment, stretching, body alignment and diving from the side and board. Continues to use and improve previously learned strokes.

Pre Req: Unassisted Front & Back Glide - 2 yards, Front Crawl with Magic Stick - 2 Yards. Students will be familiarized with back crawl, while finning and elementary backstroke are introduced. Front crawl and rotary breathing refinement will be continued.

Pre Req: Assisted Front and Back Floats, 3 independent bobs with blowing bubbles. Builds on basic swimming and water safety skills while focusing on independent swimming, glides and comfort underwater.