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Swim team is just practice, not instruction.

[b]Practice makes you very reliable at the moves you repeat.
If the moves are wrong, you will reliably do them wrong and it will take ten times longer to correct them than the time it took you to learn them wrong. A huge waste of time.
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Conclusion: serious swimmers never do swim team without private instruction, just like serious musicians never do orchestra without private lessons, or serious gymnasts do competitive team without private coaching... nothing can replace individual instruction in any discipline.

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I agree with you, but I don't think swim teams make this clear to the parents. They don't want to lose swimmers. It is reasonable for a person like OP who doesn't know much about swimming to think her children will be instructed on how to swim properly. When I sign my kid up for basketball, the coach shows him how to shoot and dribble. Etc. [/quote]

I agree that swim teams generally don’t make this clear to parents, but not out of fear of losing swimmers. There are a lot of things about swimming as a kids’ sport that are mysteries to parents or learned through experience, and this is one of them. There is a lot to learn for new swim parents, but not because information is deliberately withheld.

Another note- many kids on swim teams start in some sort of minis program/swim school where the basic strokes are taught. Then they move on to the swim team. New “older” swimmers joining a swim team for the first time won’t have the benefit of this foundation. [/quote]

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