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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When people use the word "brutal", why would you put your child in a sport where that's the experience?  Or is it hyperbole?  Is it just that kids are losing more often?  Because kids in other sports know how to handle that by 10.  [/quote]

All sports can be "brutal" at times. Travel teams and making the cut are rough. Kids being benched and not playing because other kids are better can be brutal.

Kids who swim know how to lose, most lose all the time as there is only 1 kid who can come in first and there is no team/other players to carry the weak link. With swimming so much of "winning or losing" are trying to make time cuts for big meets and drop time. In younger age groups the time cuts are somewhat easier and most kids who work hard can make some of them. Some kids can make them more easily due to physicals size. As kids, especially boys, get older the time cuts get more difficult/faster. This give an advantage to kids who hit puberty earlier as the times are based on the top % of kids in that age group and, as expected, kids who have hit puberty and put on more muscle will get faster. This makes it "brutal" for the late bloomers because they may still be working hard, but not seeing the same results as the other boys who now have the physique of men.

I do think that there challenging times weed kids out. The ones who really love the sports will keep pushing where the kids who don't may leave the sport when the going gets tough.

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