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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid is at the youth advanced level I would recommend a program like Fins. My kid did both Fins and the county program before they started swimming club and Fins was by far the better of the 2.[/quote]

Hmm, thanks.  Can you say more about the differences between what they do in FINS vs the county advanced lessons?

(FINS looks more logistically challenging for us but we might be able to swing it... but the beginner "Seahorses" level seems a little below her skills so I don't know if it would be challenging enough, but she's definitely not ready for the next level/intermediate because she doesn't know all 4 strokes.)[/quote]
My kid got frustrated with the county lessons because the ability level was very uneven. Parents would put their kids in a particular group despite their kids not being ready which impacts how the lesson is taught. It was a bad experience with a kid who clearly didn’t belong there and the whole lesson was wasted trying to cater to that kid. Fins was much better at dividing the kids appropriately by ability. When she joined she had a rudimentary understanding of all 4 strokes (maybe not quite legal in fly) so was above the seahorse level, and her ability to do all 4 strokes greatly improved. That said, if I had to do it over, I would bypass the county completely, do Fins to get the basics down, and then go to one of the club stroke schools for refinement. [/quote]

+1. This was our experience with Stroke and Turn, but this is at the Rockville location. The required 25 yard swim is a joke. They accept everyone. 2 kids were accepted to the program and can’t even swim 5 yards but they took up an entire lane. The rest of the 8 and under kids were in the second lane. I would not recommend this program.[/quote]

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