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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, and a comment about the starting early crowd with swim.

I am currently watching a crop of early swimmers that had immense success now having a LOT of issues. They are no longer experience the huge time drops of younger kids and all of these new swimmers that started at 11 that were not much in the way of competition then are now catching up and surpassing in times at the 13-14 age group.

They have been overtraining for years and are frustrated.  I now see why kids burn out.[/quote]

It’s just really sad that every sport is so competitive. There is nothing that the kids can do for fun. It’s always about winning, being the fastest etc. Sucks for these kids. My kid wants to swim for fun and I am having a hard time finding a place where he can swim 2x a week without any meets or competition.[/quote]
If you are in Maryland there are at least 2 options for that: FINS and JFD. JFD was once a competitive team but is not this year. [/quote]

I checked FINS, the marlins group (which would be for my kid based on age) requires that they know all 4 strokes pretty well. He only knows 3. Why does he need to know all 4 if he has no intention of competing in a swim meet? Why can’t free style, back and breast be enough to just swim for fun and endurance?[/quote]
I mean you could just take your kid to the pool twice a week for fun and endurance then? You said there were no options, there are in fact options that have been provided to you. You certainly can call FINS and explain that your son age wise fits in Marlins but doesn’t really know fly. It’s not a competitive program, I’m sure they would still be willing to take him. But maybe really all you want to do is complain. [/quote]

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