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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you stop nagging them about it.  They will either want to develop or not.  The more you nag, stand at the side of the pool screaming, the more you try to fit in with the cool swim parents they won't try. [/quote]
I promise I'm not nagging.  I'm not a swimmer and so I have very little to say about what happens in practice.  But I was frustrated to arrive at summer swim with a kid who has spent two years in AAC development groups (minis) and Norman Swim who spent zero time on starts, turns or butterfly.  I expected those skills to be covered (at least to a basic level) for an 8-10 yo kid who is already legal in all four strokes.  Kid seems to have done lots of endurance work with mediocre form and no actual instruction re form or skills.  [/quote]

Same. DC did a year of stroke & turn with a club clinic where they spent very little time on the breast & fly. I just saw them do endless laps of freestyle. Endurance is good. DC is still not fully legal in the latter two and that seems to be holding them up from making a team, so very frustrating. [/quote]

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