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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former swimmer myself I get irrationally angry when I see this type of stuff at my 9 yr old’s practices. The winter club team isn’t an issue, but it’s so bad in the summer and the summer team’s winter program. Bossy kids insist on being the lane leader when they are clearly not the fastest. Kids don’t get out of the way to let others finish all the way into the wall. Some don’t wait the full 5 sec before pushing off and then are on top of the kid in front of them. And yes the cheating like turning around before the wall and swimming during drills or kick sets. One kid in my child’s lane did all of this every week last winter and continued into the summer. Constantly swam on top of my child due to their cheating. Then started beating my child in races and bragging about it. I know this behavior catches up with them eventually but it’s hard to watch when your kid isn’t so assertive. I completely blame coaches for not handling this. All of the summer coaches are swimmers and know better. It’s one reason my child is only doing the winter club team and no more summer team winter program. I would absolutely say something to coaches if this stuff was happening at a club team. You are paying a lot more and the coaching should be a lot better.[/quote]

This is funny to me because I could have written the same thing. My only stressor at all related to my child's swimming is this. My 9 year old is pretty passive and in summer swim would often get much slower kids in his practice lane starting in front of him. He'd try to go around them but they'd move in front to block him so he'd end up crashing into their feet on most reps. This does nobody any good.

I don't care who is the fastest, it just works better for everyone when the kids are lined up in a proper order. And don't get me started on the "cheating" during drills, eg doing normal backstroke when they're only supposed to kick.

Thankfully it's not an issue for us during indoor swim, the coaches are much more on top of it and the kids are more respectful of the process.[/quote]

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