Alternate of RMSC

[jordan31]

Hello ,
my kid is current RMSC swimmer but I dont like the way coaches teach in RMSC (cant mention specific location) but most of the coaches at her location don't correct the technique or stroke. Swimmers Just keep practicing their technique and keep doing repetition. there are few good swimmers who are always gets attention (most of them corrected stroke in swim Clinique or spend money outside RMSC ).

My question is how can Swimmer participate in different meets if they are not part of RMSC ?
what are the different ways to improve swimmers technique ? coaches even don't prefer to talk to parents .
is there any other option except RMSC in moco ?

after all these hype how many swimmers make it to the national swimming team.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

Lots of options of other clubs in MoCo: NCAP, ASA, sea Devils, and I think a team at Fairlands.

You have to compete with your team so kid would need to switch teams -x can’t pick and choose meets.

[Anonymous]

Making the national team is a big goal. It's an unlikely dream from any club in the area, but, PVS is a strong region. I think we have a handful of national team swimmers right now. RMSC has its pro and cons. There are a lot of threads about the various local clubs. Read through the threads. Ask other parents. Interview the coaches at these various clubs. Swimming is a club sport. The best kids are always going to get the most attention.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure you would necessarily be happier in another location. I'm not sure there is a team out there that provides what you expect. Changing technique is a slow process. If a coach could just tell a kid one time to stop crossing the midline, stop lifting your head so much on fly, put the outside edge of your hand in first on backstroke, etc., etc., etc., swimming would be a different sport.

Swimming is very technical. If you don't want to spend the money on clinics or private lessons where there is more opportunity for individualized feedback, then maybe watching swim technique videos will help your kid.

You and your kid may hate this suggestion, but talking to the coach before or after practice could help. Your kid could improve in dozens of ways. What is your kid actively working on in practice? When they do drills is he focused on technique and improving? Does he use that knowledge and implement it in the next practice? If your kid is in the pool just mindlessly swimming laps without thought of improving or technique then no coaching will help.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t RMSC cheaper than most other clubs? I’d suck it up for the cost alone. Then just get private coaching for a bit.

[Anonymous]

We did PAC at Fairland and were happy with it. They don’t work on stroke techniques either though, it’s more endurance.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the situation. Our junior's coach was horrible, to put it nicely, but the senior's coaches are fantastic (except that one junior coach sometimes helps out). It was worth sticking it out for the senior coaches.

[Anonymous]

jordan31 wrote:Hello ,
my kid is current RMSC swimmer but I dont like the way coaches teach in RMSC (cant mention specific location) but most of the coaches at her location don't correct the technique or stroke. Swimmers Just keep practicing their technique and keep doing repetition. there are few good swimmers who are always gets attention (most of them corrected stroke in swim Clinique or spend money outside RMSC ).

My question is how can Swimmer participate in different meets if they are not part of RMSC ?
what are the different ways to improve swimmers technique ? coaches even don't prefer to talk to parents .
is there any other option except RMSC in moco ?

after all these hype how many swimmers make it to the national swimming team.

Thank you

Are you a swimmer? what age is your swimmer? Have you emailed the coach specific questions about your child's stroke? Coaches don't usually speak to parents after all of the practices. It is not clear to me what you are complaining about. When the kids are young, sometimes a few private lessons help with stroke and form.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jordan31 wrote:Hello ,
my kid is current RMSC swimmer but I dont like the way coaches teach in RMSC (cant mention specific location) but most of the coaches at her location don't correct the technique or stroke. Swimmers Just keep practicing their technique and keep doing repetition. there are few good swimmers who are always gets attention (most of them corrected stroke in swim Clinique or spend money outside RMSC ).

My question is how can Swimmer participate in different meets if they are not part of RMSC ?
what are the different ways to improve swimmers technique ? coaches even don't prefer to talk to parents .
is there any other option except RMSC in moco ?

after all these hype how many swimmers make it to the national swimming team.

Thank you

Are you a swimmer? what age is your swimmer? Have you emailed the coach specific questions about your child's stroke? Coaches don't usually speak to parents after all of the practices. It is not clear to me what you are complaining about. When the kids are young, sometimes a few private lessons help with stroke and form.

There are a few really nasty coaches that are really nasty to the kids and shouldn't be coaching. At KSAC, there is one and lots of families have left because of them.

[jordan31]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure you would necessarily be happier in another location. I'm not sure there is a team out there that provides what you expect. Changing technique is a slow process. If a coach could just tell a kid one time to stop crossing the midline, stop lifting your head so much on fly, put the outside edge of your hand in first on backstroke, etc., etc., etc., swimming would be a different sport.

Swimming is very technical. If you don't want to spend the money on clinics or private lessons where there is more opportunity for individualized feedback, then maybe watching swim technique videos will help your kid.

You and your kid may hate this suggestion, but talking to the coach before or after practice could help. Your kid could improve in dozens of ways. What is your kid actively working on in practice? When they do drills is he focused on technique and improving? Does he use that knowledge and implement it in the next practice? If your kid is in the pool just mindlessly swimming laps without thought of improving or technique then no coaching will help.

The problem which I am seeing is universal across many kids. When kids are doing wrong coaches don’t stop them and correct them. Average each coach has 4-5 kids not a big things to pay attention and ask them to improve. Second they are not interested in talking to parents . Many kids have wrong technique , bad start turn . Sometimes when I look at them just feels like why they are wasting time.. I seen rarely coaches talk abt technique .. drills they do is horrible..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jordan31 wrote:Hello ,
my kid is current RMSC swimmer but I dont like the way coaches teach in RMSC (cant mention specific location) but most of the coaches at her location don't correct the technique or stroke. Swimmers Just keep practicing their technique and keep doing repetition. there are few good swimmers who are always gets attention (most of them corrected stroke in swim Clinique or spend money outside RMSC ).

My question is how can Swimmer participate in different meets if they are not part of RMSC ?
what are the different ways to improve swimmers technique ? coaches even don't prefer to talk to parents .
is there any other option except RMSC in moco ?

after all these hype how many swimmers make it to the national swimming team.

Thank you

Are you a swimmer? what age is your swimmer? Have you emailed the coach specific questions about your child's stroke? Coaches don't usually speak to parents after all of the practices. It is not clear to me what you are complaining about. When the kids are young, sometimes a few private lessons help with stroke and form.

There are a few really nasty coaches that are really nasty to the kids and shouldn't be coaching. At KSAC, there is one and lots of families have left because of them.

There is one a Rockville also. What can you do. Nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jordan31 wrote:Hello ,
my kid is current RMSC swimmer but I dont like the way coaches teach in RMSC (cant mention specific location) but most of the coaches at her location don't correct the technique or stroke. Swimmers Just keep practicing their technique and keep doing repetition. there are few good swimmers who are always gets attention (most of them corrected stroke in swim Clinique or spend money outside RMSC ).

My question is how can Swimmer participate in different meets if they are not part of RMSC ?
what are the different ways to improve swimmers technique ? coaches even don't prefer to talk to parents .
is there any other option except RMSC in moco ?

after all these hype how many swimmers make it to the national swimming team.

Thank you

Are you a swimmer? what age is your swimmer? Have you emailed the coach specific questions about your child's stroke? Coaches don't usually speak to parents after all of the practices. It is not clear to me what you are complaining about. When the kids are young, sometimes a few private lessons help with stroke and form.

There are a few really nasty coaches that are really nasty to the kids and shouldn't be coaching. At KSAC, there is one and lots of families have left because of them.

There is one a Rockville also. What can you do. Nothing.

Nothing, RMSC knows and doesn't care. Other coaches don't like working with them either.

[Anonymous]

Would highly recommend All Star Aquatics. There were a number of RMSC swimmers who transferred over this season.

[Anonymous]

We had one kid in RMSC and the other in Tibu (bc she didn’t make RMSC). Two seasons in Tibu and she joined a high level RMSC group and really excelled, I think bc of the time they spent on technique. Tibu was less conditioning than RMSC but really improved her strokes.

[Anonymous]

Can you share more info about Tibu? Is this their site:
https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/pvtibu/page/home