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[quote=Anonymous]I work out with a club for a sport like this.  Most of the kids work out 2+ hours a day with the club and travel frequently for competitions.  Based on my conversations with the parents of these kids, you need to be prepared to make the sport your life as a family for this to work.  Work schedules and vacation schedules for the whole family revolve around the club/competition schedule.  The parents spend the vast majority of their free time getting the kids to/from practice.  Some of the kids are home-schooled to accommodate competition schedules.  Others seem to do little except sport and schoolwork, even at the expense of sleep.

Is it worth it?  Hard to say.  The club is a really good group of kids with incredible discipline, work ethic, and camaraderie.  You could do a lot worse as far as peers for your kid. Also, several of the kids from our club have gone to the Olympics, and all of the kids who stick with it have an excellent hook for college.  But, kids do burn out and/or get injured, in which case they have missed out on a lot of their childhood for little payoff, and it may not work for your family build your life around your kid's sport.  [/quote]

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