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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]British Swim School is also terrible. These businesses have grown rapidly and they hire batshit crazy and inefficient instructors. [/quote]

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Agree - we did it one winter on groupon.  No way we'd pay full price.  We had multiple instructors and staff.  The turn over was huge.  They place your child at a much lower level and rapidly move them up insisting you buy a new swim cap each change.  I told them no as we only had a few weeks left and they kept calling to get our credit card number over the phone.  I finally offered to pay at the swim site and they refused.  Who gives a credit card to someone calling over the phone?

The worst part is how they teach to breathe is to turn all the way over on your side.  It completely screwed up my child for team and it took a good 9 month to get it corrected.  For survival its fine but for real swim skip it. [/quote]

I'm the pp with the positive review of British Swim School.  At what level were they teaching your child to lay over on their side?  At our lessons they've only had kids practice that in the lowest levels (minnow and turtle 1) as a what to do if you get tired while swimming.  After that they are very into swimming team form.[/quote]

They teach nothing like team.  Kids are only allowed to go short distances and do not get to go across the length of the pool.  Its very restricted.  They work a lot on strokes which is good but they teach safety stroke not real swim or swim team strokes for stronger kids.  It really messed up my child.  At the older levels you don't need to worry about getting tired if they worked on endurance.  There is no endurance training as you can't even go more than 1/3 the pool length.  We have done swim classes at multiple places and they were far worse than anywhere else.  Team had to completely reteach/fix which was a huge issue at first.[/quote]

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