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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD (7) is doing club swim for the second year. The first year she did the stroke development focused group for under 8s. They placed her in the 7 and up group this year. They are supposed to be working on technique but my observation is that they are really focused on conditioning and doing laps without a ton of feedback on their strokes.

Is this something I need to be getting for her in private lessons or is it worth talking to the coach about whether she is in the right group? She is keeping up and wants to be in this group (with a friend) [b]but I feel like the practice is a lot for a little kid to begin with.[/b] [/quote]

OP - focus on this part (and agree with the other comments) how many days and how long is your kid in the water?  At 7, two days a week for 60 to 75 minutes is the appropriate amount.  More than that, I would say way too much.  Since you kid is keeping up, it is not too much.

You will see parents at clubs push to move swimmers up to harder groups (huge mistake 98% of the time).  They think that upper level groups will make their kid better, but since their swimmer is not ready it is bad.  Our club got sick of pushy parents and sometimes will let the swimmer "try out" for the upper group for a week or two.  They ask the parents to watch the practices.  You always know when this is happening because the poor kid is way behind and still swimming while the swim group is talking about the next set. Most parents can see that the group is too much.[/quote]

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