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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As our summer swim coach told us “ pick the one closest to your house with the practice times that work for your family” None of the year round clubs seem to work on strokes a whole lot, it’s mostly endurance. [/quote]

You can get lucky with good coaches, but I do think it is luck. The coaches come and go from all teams. 
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At 12, even the good ones are just tweaking strokes at practice. I can't think of teams that would really try to build up a 12 year old who needed major work on their strokes. They'd be happy to take your money and put the kid in a lane, but I wouldn't expect them to get that much attention from coaches [/quote]

Yes, it’s a common misconception that many parents have that swim team is somewhere around 50% technique instruction and 50% conditioning. Count me in that group. Most clubs are more like 25/75 or 20/80, and the technique instruction is often in the form of drills that teach kids the correct technique. If your kid doesn’t get the point of the drill, then it won’t help much. Younger kids get more technique instruction and learn the basics of how to race. By 11-12, there won’t be as much time spend on the fundamentals of starts and turns or basic stroke mechanics. By 13-14, kids will work on fine tuning their strokes, learning more difficult turns, dryland for power/strength, race strategy, and conditioning and more conditioning.

In our program, the kids who join at 11-13 have an adjustment period where they get used to all the language of interpreting a set and reading the clock, the logistics of swimming with other kids in a lane, and physically keeping up in practice. Then, they can put their focus on learning. These swimmers are put in lower age groups at first, but they move up fast![/quote]

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