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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly, and btw I agree that 13 year olds don’t need to specialize and should have a variety of training.

I am arguing that as you get older, there needs to be more training options for kids who want to become 100 type sprinters.[/quote]
They don’t have specific training groups based on stroke, distance, etc. The kids are getting a little bit of everything in practice. For the HS age kids that are looking to swim in college, it’s not enough to be a sprinter unless you are a freestyler. If you’re primarily a specialty stroke swimmer you need to be good in both the 100 and the 200.[/quote]

I would counter this to say that the 100s of stroke and even the 200s of stroke in short course yards are basically long sprints at this point, at least at the college level.  Long course meters is a different animal, but in terms of training to be an ncaa level swimmer, a more sprint based training program could absolutely be beneficial[/quote]
Of course the 100s are the sprints of the non-freestyle strokes, there are no 50s outside of freestyle in club swimming once you turn 13. Are people still not understanding this? No one is training to do sprint 50s at that age. A 200 fly and a 200 breast are also definitely not sprint events, even in SCY. [/quote]

I don’t think a single poster on this thread has argued that sprint 50s are a thing in club, esp after age 12. We all understand that 100s (and maybe 200 free) are sprints. Yet you keep self-righteously posting that we don’t get it, despite no one misunderstanding it. Please focus on the question at hand instead of using this as an opportunity to assert your competitive swim superiority. [/quote]

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