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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can learn flip turns in an afternoon if you are pretty good in the water. I learned on my 1st day of swim team practice through the school (7th grade) and was consistently top 3-4 on my teams through HS. My area didn't have the summer pool clubs "swim teams" like they have here but they did have year rould clubs, which I eventually joined in HS and started doing summer swim through those clubs maybe in 8th- 9th grade.

I'm just saying that (not necessarily for OP but in general) that if you are decent in the water, you can catch up fast in swimming, the amount of time in the pool can really make a difference in the beginning.[/quote]

Ugh -- I am the PP that had the bad experience in swim team.  As I mentioned, I joined at age 9 and did it all summer for three straight years.  I must have done thousands of flip turns, and never did get it right.  I can't tell you home many times I hit my head, or came up in the wrong lane.  Once I even came up in the wrong pool (only exaggerating a little -- I was half way across the dive well when I came up for water.  I was a terrible swimmer so always in the last lane).  This thread is giving me PTSD just thinking about it.   The girls that were my peers on the swim team all ended up swimming in college, including one that swim for a Div 1 school that is famous for producing Olympic swimmers, so I really never did have a shot at being anything other than the worst one on the team.  I think swimming is one of those sports where, if you're bad, it's just so, so painful.  But I totally agree that everyone should learn how to swim.[/quote]

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