color of belts in swimming

Couroboros, I think I will need to add some metrics in it to make it rationalistic. Time and/or distance could be in. Thanks for your comments. Ande, I will certainly embed your input in my article.They are great. Lindsay, the link you posted is really interesting.There are certainly some very good descriptions I will use. Thank you all, any more comments are more than welcome, it will be a great article:bliss:

don't some belt systems work up to Black belts then go up from there to a white belt for the highest level masters. plus when you swim often your belt will fade like a bleached worn out swim suit you might want to follow swim faster faster Tip 13 Unconscious Mastery Swim Faster Faster: Tip 13 Unconscious Mastery The path to mastering swimming skills 1. Unconscious Incompetence 2. Conscious Incompetence 3. Conscious Competence 4. Unconscious Competence 5. Unconscious Mastery 1. Unconscious Incompetence When we begin swimming, we're unskilled and we don't know what we need to do to become skilled. We're unaware that we're unskilled. 2. Conscious Incompetence Next we're still unskilled, but at least now we're aware that we are and making efforts to improve. 3. Conscious Competence We're improving our skills and we do them correctly when we concentrate on it. 4. Unconscious Competence We've practiced our correct skills so much the've become a habit and we can do it with out thinking about it. 5. Unconscious Mastery The athlete's skills are developed to the highest level, perfection. He swims with grace speed and power without even thinking about it. I encourage you to strive towards Unconscious Mastery of your swimming skills, and as you get closer, you will swim faster faster. Ande I want to write an article about the hypothetical grades in swimming. There will be 6 grades: white-yellow-green-blue-red-black (like in karate:)) Would you help me to describe each grade? For example, if a person knowing nothing about swimming started a course to learn it, he/she has white belt. When this person is able to do what, he/she will be yellow belt? Same goes for other belts. learn to breath into the water balanced body position in the water able to adjust the pace to swim 15 minutes non-stop training with pace clock etc. Waiting for your interesting comments.

The Red Cross used to have a color system back when I learned to swim, now they've got a numeric system. Although it has a lot of water safety mixed in I'm sure a lot of thought and experience went into it and you might find their progression useful for the early colors in your progression: www.redcross.ca/article.asp Have you decided on the top end of your scale? I.e. is a black belt an Olympic swimmer or just reasonably competent? I like Ande's scale, I think I have achieved something approaching conscious competence in freestyle but am stuck at conscious incompetence with butterfly!