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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Toll is overpriced and it's for mostly for kids who can't swim well but have a lot of money to get more individualized attention.

Emphasis on mostly. We know a couple of very fast kids on the team but it's rare. [/quote]

NP, but how are kids supposed to improve without individual attention? Swimming is a technical sport. I’m happy to pay for my kids to get good stroke coaching now so they can become faster later.

Or is swimming only worth it for the kids who naturally pick it up? :roll: [/quote]
I’m not the PP you’re responding to, but I think the point they are trying to make is that [b]Toll is better for kids that are still getting a grasp on the fundamentals like stroke technique, where some of the other programs are more designed for kids that already have a handle on technique.[/b] One of the benefits of this area is that there are multiple options for swimmers at all different levels, you don’t have to be a star to continue swimming.[/quote]

To the bolded - plenty of kids know the fundamentals of a given stroke, but still could benefit from more detailed technical feedback.  Anyone who thinks that most 10 year olds just need conditioning (along the lines of RMSC) doesn’t know much about swimming.  I mean, my kid can swim all four strokes legally.  That doesn’t mean she no longer needs stroke coaching.  Getting wound up about how fast your pre-puberty kid is swimming doesn’t make a ton of sense.
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Nowhere was it suggested that kids that know the fundamentals couldn’t benefit from additional technical instruction or feedback. But it is accurate to say that if you are over the age of 9 and still learning the fundamentals, clubs like RMSC, NCAP, etc. aren’t going to be a good fit because their training generally is based on the notion that their age group swimmers (I’m not talking about the young kids in stroke classes or developmental programs) already have a grasp of the fundamentals. [/quote]

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