Winter swimming question
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Anonymous
Tollefson. They are required to take a weekly stroke class in addition to team practice. |
Anonymous
Which level or which coach? That hasn't been our experience. |
Anonymous
| Toll is very focused on technique. |
Anonymous
You can also just take a weekly class at Tollefsen and continue with your current team. |
Anonymous
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who is complaining, you or the kid? Often times it is the parent who gets the complaining from the other swim moms and dads who think they should be in some sort of swim lab focusing on strokes instead of swimming.
Want that sort of swimming pony up big bucks for private coaching, otherwise, all of them spend very little time on technique most like 90% of the kids in the winter swim program will not swim past high school. the talk of Olympic swimming, college scholarships is all hope and at the end of the day, it is the parents wanting that, not the kids, same for all sports, step back, let the kids work how they want, if they want to be good they will be. |
Anonymous
| What about UMAC at U of MD? |
Anonymous
The kids are complaining (we have a car pool so I am hearing about it from the kids in the car pool). |
Anonymous
That is a good idea. |
Anonymous
I disagree with this. Kids who swim with poor technique end up with injuries or they lose interest because they don't see improvement. I think the OP is right to look for a program with technique. |
Anonymous
This is a great idea! Just be careful - if $$ is a concern, it adds up fast. It's $450 per session (fall, winter, spring) for a weekly stroke class at Tollefson. So you're looking at an extra $1350/yr. Personally, I think Tollefson is worth it (they're instructors are awesome). Just mentioning that it isn't necessarily cheap. |
Anonymous
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RMSC does focus on skill/tech, this is done through drills. Sometimes coaches do single out some swimmers and correct them.
My son joined RMSC/KSAC in April 2016 with no prior any team or swimming class except "home schooling". He improves his skill/endurance dramatically. His 500Y FR and 100Y FL are in "A" cut off range. We don't take any other swimming class BUT -- spend a lot time watching videos (including the Summer Olympic Games). One tip that I can offer is to video tape your child's practice -- and let him/her to see himself/herself swimming --then compare with others who do much better. Only thing I don't like RMSC, in particular Junior team, they have so many swimmers per lane (as many as 13 !), plus there are wide range swimmers of physical sizes, skills and endurance. It is impossible to do endurance training. I heard NCAP/GP Jr team has only 5-6 swimmers /per lane. |
Anonymous
I'm not sure how much focus there is on technique but my DCs sure love it! They are 7 and 9 so maybe it is age dependent? |
Anonymous
| We see this problem too. It's a huge issue for continuing with swimming and I don't know why swim clubs don't address it because they lose a lot of swimmers who don't see improvement after a couple of years. Competition Swim Clinic used to have a great technique program focusing on only one stroke at a time and really refining it until the kids could do it correctly, but Lou Sharpe, the owner, died this summer and now it's closed. It was a very popular program for technique. They would even give you cards sometimes with specific technique issues to practice fixing before the next class to improve technique. And they would have each child do a pre and post race to gauge improvement. If there's another program out there like this, I would love to find it. |
Anonymous
It must depend on the site. I have watched many practices at MLK and never once saw them do drills. |
Anonymous
Yes do that. Every child wants a parent/coach. |