What's the name of the class to look into to teach a child how to do starts properly and where would I find these classes? Is it just diving? |
"Starts and turns" clinics are what you are looking for. You can also take lessons with a coach at your pool and work on these things, too. |
Who offers these clinics? |
If you’re a member of a summer pool, do the coaches offer lessons? My long time swimming kids do this (coaching & lessons). Most experienced teens at summer pools offer this.
Where are you located? |
Fitter and Faster, SwimLabs, Navy, I think sometimes FINS, likely many, many others. MoCo also has Stroke and Turn clinics during the regular school year, although they don't do a huge amount of work on starts (you'd have to ask how much). But like PPs said, private lessons can do great work on this as well. |
Fitter and faster is not good at all. Way too many kids of varying abilities & the instructors give very little indiv feedback to your child bc there are so many kids there. Navy camps arw over I think and are for older kids, aren’t they? |
Navy is over for the year but generally enrolls super early. I don't know how young they go but I know 10yos who went. |
If you are looking for your kid to work on them this season ask one of the coaches or one of the yr round swimming teens for a lesson or two that’s what we did for both starts and flip turns. |