Brief Course Content

Life-saving Training Course (Bronze Medallion Course content)

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes basic lifesaving skill, such as chin-carry, cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and basic first aid knowledge.

Progressive Swimming Course Front Crawl Training Course (Level I)

This course is designed for beginners. It covers water safety and basic front crawl skills, as well as breath control, floating with or without a floating board, kicks, arm movements, integration of breathing with front crawl, etc. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 20 metres in proper front crawl.

Front Crawl Training Course (Level II)

This course is designed for participants who have completed the Front Crawl Training Course (Level I) or equivalent. It aims at enhancing participants’ front crawl skills, including the stroke and endurance, and correcting any improper movements. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 50 metres in proper front crawl.

Front Crawl Training Course (Level III)

This course is designed for participants who have completed the Front Crawl Training Course (Level II) or equivalent. It aims at strengthening participants’ mastery of front crawl, including the stroke and endurance, and covers basic skills of treading water, turns, starts, etc., as well as safety tips and conduct for deep water swimming. The aim of the course is to enable participants to grasp the skills of swimming for longer distances. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 100 metres in proper front crawl.

Breaststroke Training Course (Level I)

This course is designed for beginners. It covers water safety and basic breaststroke skills, as well as breath control, floating, floating face-down using a floating board, kicks, arm movements, integration of breathing with breaststroke, etc. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 20 metres in proper breaststroke.

Breaststroke Training Course (Level II)

This course is designed for participants who have completed the Breaststroke Training Course (Level I) or equivalent. It aims at enhancing participants’ breaststroke skills, including the stroke and endurance, and correcting any improper movements. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 50 metres in proper breaststroke.

Breaststroke Training Course (Level III)

This course is designed for participants who have completed the Breaststroke Training Course (Level II) or equivalent. It aims at strengthening participants’ mastery of breaststroke, including the stroke and endurance, and covers basic skills of treading water, turns, starts, etc., as well as safety tips and conduct for deep water swimming. The aim of the course is to enable participants to grasp the skills of swimming for longer distances. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 100 metres in proper breaststroke.

Backstroke Swimming Training Course

This course is designed for participants with basic knowledge of front crawl/breaststroke. It covers basic skills of backstroke arm movements and kicks, integration of breathing with backstroke, etc. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 100 metres in backstroke.

Butterfly Stroke Swimming Training Course

This course is designed for participants with basic knowledge of front crawl/breaststroke. It covers basic skills of butterfly strokes and kicks, integration of breathing with butterfly stroke, etc. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 50 metres in butterfly stroke.

Swimming Training Course for Older Person (Level I)

This course is designed for beginners. It covers basic breaststroke skills and survival training, as well as breath control, floating, floating with or without a floating board, kicks, arm movements, integration of breathing with breaststroke, etc. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 20 metres in proper breaststroke.

Swimming Training Course for Older Persons (Level II)

This course is designed for participants who have completed the Swimming Training Course for the Elderly (Level I) or equivalent. It aims at enhancing participants’ breaststroke skills, including the stroke and endurance, and correcting any improper movements. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 50 metres in proper breaststroke.

Swimming Training Course for Older Persons (III)

This course is designed for participants who have completed the Swimming Training Course for the Elderly (Level II) or equivalent. It aims at strengthening participants’ mastery of breaststroke, including the stroke and endurance, and covers basic skills of treading water, turns, starts, etc., as well as safety tips and conduct for deep water swimming. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to swim for 100 metres in proper breaststroke.

Water Safety Course for Baby

This course is designed for babies. It covers poolside diving, breath-holding under water and kicks. It aims at building participants’ confidence and alleviating their fear of water through water play.

Aerobic Dance Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes static stretching exercises, dance movements and floor exercises.

Baduanjin Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content focuses on the teaching of all movements of Baduanjin.

Children Dance Training Course

This course is designed for children. Course content includes basic training on dancing and group dancing to foster coordination among children.

Chinese Dance Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes different Chinese dance techniques and dancing steps.

Multi-gym Fitness Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes demonstrations of the correct use of various equipment, explanations of their functions and correction of players' postures when they operate the equipment.

Fitness Exercise for Children

The course is designed for children. It fosters participants to do physical exercises regularly and actively take part in sports activities through games.

General Gymnastic Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes fundamental dance steps, competitive gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, technical gymnastics.

Hydro Fitness Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes introducing various hydro exercises for toning muscles and strengthening joints and explaining their benefits to the body.

Jazz Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes teaching basic techniques of Jazz dance in different music and rhythm.

Judo Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes explanation, demonstration and practices of throwing techniques, hold-down techniques, defence techniques and combination of different techniques. Participants will also be briefed on the rules of competition and judo terminology.

Modern Dance Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes teaching various modern dances so that participants may learn how to use and control the body muscles and the coordination of motor skills, time and rhythm.

Play Leadership Scheme

This course is designed for children. Through small-group games, participants receive training on leadership, eye-hand coordination, body balance and creativity development.

Quali-walk Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes introducing and teaching different types of walking exercises (stroll, normal walk and brisk walk) and their techniques in a bid to strengthen cardiopulmonary function.

Social Dance Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Basic steps of social dances including Cha Cha, Waltz and Jive will be taught.

Stress Management and Physical Relaxation Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes stress management and relaxation techniques so that participants can learn about how to achieve physical fitness by relaxing their muscles and reducing stress level.

Tai Chi Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes explaining the advantages of practising Tai Chi Chuan and teaching the movements of Tai Chi Chuan.

Tai Chi Sword Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes explaining the advantages of practising Tai Chi Sword and teaching the movements of Tai Chi Sword.

Western Folk Dance Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes introducing types of folk dances, teaching the basic steps of western folk dances and practising the folk dances of various countries.

Wushu Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes fundamental Wushu (stepping position, hand position and foot position) and its routines.

Yoga Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes the various Yoga postures and breathing techniques.

American Pool Training Course - Level I

This course provides basic training for those who are interested in playing American Pool. Course content includes explaining the use of American Pool products and equipment, the rules and basics of the game and the way of practice.

American Pool Training Course - Level II

This course is designed for those who have a basic knowledge of American Pool. Course content includes explaining combination, kick and carom shots as well as competition techniques.

Badminton Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes grip, serving skills, forehand drive, forehand and backhand lob, net shot control, footwork, competition rules and scoring method.

Seminar on Contract Bridge

This seminar introduces to novices the basic rules of Easy Bridge and Contract Bridge.

Workshop on Contract Bridge - Level I

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes the origin of Contract Bridge, basic rules, scoring, declaring skills and logic of bidding.

Workshop on Contract Bridge - Level II

This course is designed for those who know the basic rules of Contract Bridge. Course content includes the logic and system of bidding, advanced playing skills, defending skills and competition formats.

Fencing Training Course - Level I

This course introduces foil to beginners. Course content includes sword gripping, fencing postures, safety rules, movements as well as rules of attack and defence.

Fencing Training Course - Level II

This course is designed for those who have a basic knowledge of fencing. It is also focused on foil and teaches the basic techniques of fencing and the application of different combat tactics.

Go Training Course - Level I

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes the basic concept of Go, rules, basic techniques, dead and alive stones, true eye and false eye.

Go Training Course - Level II

This course is designed for those who can differentiate between "dead" and "alive" stones. Course content includes the basic technique to capture stones, learning about the basic pattern of dead and alive stones and the incomplete patterns.

Go Training Course - Level III

This course is designed for those who know the basic way to capture stones. Course content includes learning how a "capturing race" is formed, "capturing race" and "dual life", calculation of "liberties" in capturing race, basic theories of arranging the stones, and knowing "end-game".

Indoor Golf Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes introduction of equipment, putting, short shot, baff, golf terms and etiquette, game format, scoring method, half swing, full swing, etc. Participants attending three lessons or above will be granted the LCSD Practice Green User Card.

Mini Tennis Training Course

This course is designed for children. Course content includes grip, forehand and backhand drive, volley, overhead smash and serving skills. Practice through games will also be added to the course content, making the training more interesting.

Squash Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes forehand and backhand drive, volley, shot and clear, serving at the left and right boxes, rules and regulations, scoring method, basic tactics, serving tactics, etc.

Table Tennis Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes grips, forehand attack, backhand block and drive, playing of strokes, forehand and backhand service, returning a service, footwork, etc.

Tennis Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes grip, forehand and backhand flat, topspin, slice, net volley, smash, serving skills, competition rules and scoring method.

Basketball Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes passing the ball, dribble, jump shot, layup shot, free throw, rebound, attack and defence tactics and competition rules, etc.

Football Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes dribble, shooting, short and long pass, control of ball, headwork, techniques related to assists, etc.

Gateball Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes introduction of equipment, postures commonly adopted by Japanese, Hong Kong and Mainland players, game formats in the three places, hitting exercise, aiming techniques, sparking and competition rules, etc.

Handball Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes pass, ball catching, defence formation, shooting techniques, attack and competition rules, etc.

Volleyball Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes footwork, overhand and underhand service, pass and toss, ball catching, spike, block, attack and defence formation and basic rules, etc.

Orienteering Training Course

This course is designed for beginners incorporating theory and practice. Course content includes map reading, use of compass, basic skills of orienteering, international clue symbols, competition rules and orienteering competition, etc.

Sport Climbing Training Course

This course is designed for beginners. Course content includes introduction of climbing walls, equipment and proper sportswear, basic skills of sports climbing, protection devices and skills, knot tying and safety measures, etc.