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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not too late at all but the kid needs very frequent 1:1 lessons. 1x/week won’t do anything.[/quote] The biggest “bang for our buck” was to put the kids in lessons at our pool for 30 min/day, 5 days a week, for 2-4 weeks. You need daily instruction with the same teacher to make a breakthrough. 8&U on our NVSL is when kids are explicitly taught breaststroke and butterfly. 9-10s they are expected to be legal in all 4 strokes and the younger kids are taught flip turns because that age group swims 50m races. It’s not too late, but there will be a window of time, maybe age 8-11/12 where it might be hard to jump in when other kids have been doing it all along. I “walked on” to varsity swim team in HS having never swam competitively and I picked it up quickly - but I see 9-10yr olds at our pool come to swim team for the first time and not have fun because it’s hard to catch up. [/quote]
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