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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our nvsl B meet is Monday night. Swimmers need coach’s approve to swim in a certain stoke, if it’s not legal during time trial. I would get private lesson to help child get one stroke legal each summer, so he/she won’t lost confidence. [/quote]

Do not, for the love of god, just sign your kid up for private lessons if the goal is simply to get your child legal to swim in B meets.  Waste of money.

If s/he mentions frustration with a stroke, you could ask the child if s/he would like some extra practice with the coach and go from there.  
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No coach is going to give extra practice to a specific child struggling in strokes, outside group practice time. Mine couldn’t get a certain stroke legal after summer swim and even entire year of club swim. But private lesson did.[/quote]

This depends on your team. We have stroke work clinics one day a week that are coach invite-only. Typically they are used to help borderline kids get legal in certain strokes (especially for fast kids at risk of DQing in an A-meet). For any kid, if you talk to the coach they can give a little more instruction in practice or make recommendations for a private lesson if that’s what they think is needed.

To answer the original question though - at 6, your kid is still really young! As others have said, they’ll likely start out swimming just free, or free and back, at B meets - and maybe add more as the season progresses. On our team at least, it’s also okay if they choose not to swim any meets. Some 6 year olds, even fast ones, get overwhelmed and it’s better just to take things at their own pace. My youngest insisted in doing pre-team at 6 even though he was a great swimmer (though the coach convinced him to move up and swim the last B meet - which he crushed, coming in first in fly). At the time we were all stressed about convincing him to practice with the team, swim meets, et. but in retrospect there was absolutely no reason to not just take things at his own pace. Summer swim is one of my kids favorite things but it can be overwhelming for the little ones! It’s totally okay to start out slow, just swim free, etc.[/quote]

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