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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In general breast is a technical stroke and needs specific instruction to get legal. Some kids just ‘get it’ but those that don’t need a fair amount of individualized correction and it’s important to get that correction so bad habits don’t get engrained.   Fly is often just a matter of strength.   It’s not that they don’t understand what to do, it’s that they lack the strength to get all the way down the pool.    That’s why York cares more about breast.  They aren’t equipped (outside of swim school) to be fixing an individual kids breast.  They can work on strength for fly.  [/quote]

Yep exactly this. Breast is the most technical even if it looks easier. Many young kids scissor kick or pull their hands past their hips. You have to master the timing too.

My 8 and under swam for York last year and they worked on breast a lot. But there wasn’t a coach in the water. It worked well for my kid because they were already legal, just inefficient. The coach was teaching them how to position their hands and shoot forward, and lots of drills like breast pull with fly kick. They’ve been able to build on that foundation this summer and dropped a lot of time. But it would not have happened a year earlier when they just weren’t developmentally ready to understand the timing.[/quote]

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