Validia Swimming Pool

Nordenskiöldinkatu 18 B, 00250 Helsinki

Classes for kids

  • Beginner– Water Confidence & Basic Skills

    At this level, children become familiar with the water and learn to feel safe and comfortable in the pool. Through simple and playful exercises, they develop basic floating, breathing, kicking, and body-position skills.

    • Water confidence and body awareness
    • Floating and maintaining balance
    • Basic body position
    • Breathing control and underwater skills
    • Kicking with and without a kickboard
    • Introduction to basic freestyle and backstroke movements

  • Intermediate – Stroke Development

    Swimmers at this level should already be able to swim freestyle (front crawl) and backstroke confidently. Lessons focus on improving technique, coordination, breathing, and endurance while introducing breaststroke and butterfly.

    • Improve freestyle and backstroke technique
    • Develop breathing, body position, and coordination
    • Swim longer distances with control
    • Learn breaststroke kick and arm movements
    • Introduction to butterfly kick and body movement
    • Combine the movements to develop complete strokes

  • Advanced – Technique, Starts & Turns

    Swimmers at this level should already know the four swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Lessons focus on refining technique and learning competitive skills through short, age-appropriate training sets.

    • Refine technique in all four strokes
    • Improve speed, endurance, and efficiency
    • Learn starts and underwater transitions
    • Practice flip turns and open turns
    • Improve streamlining and finishes
    • Complete short swimming training sets

Prices & Schedule

Our swimming lessons are tailored to your needs and experience.

We teach breathing techniques, body position, paces and rhythm for endurance, and coordination rules for swimming styles of competition.