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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't agree with "don't play club until 7th or 8th grade". Most good players start playing club in 5th grade at the latest. You want your kid to play with and against them. If you stay with rec or lame travel teams, your kid won't get better. You also want better coaching sooner.[/quote] This is correct - kids get much better playing w kids w good stick skills and hopefully preventing or fixing bad habits.[/quote]

Have the "stick with rec league" people ever seen a rec league game?  Get good coaching early.[/quote]

Fifth or 6th grade is plenty early. Only rec through most of elementary is just fine.  There is no need to start in second or third grade the way many of the clubs are pushing now.  Wait until you can tell whether your kid has any real athletic ability and real interest other than just bragging rights.  My DD did not start on a club team until 6th grade and now plays for one of the top 1-2 clubs in the DMV.  Meanwhile most of the girls she played with on her middle school club team who started on club younger did not turn out to be the athletes everyone thought they were as 11-12 year olds and a couple quit who were very good because of burn-out.  [/quote]

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