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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Think of swimming cost like you do Costco vs Safeway. If you only want to buy the bare minimum the price per unit is going to be drastically higher than if you were to buy in bulk![/quote]

This is what I have a problem with. We have a talented swimmer who can’t make 5 practices a week because they are heavily involved in another sport.  The kids that do swim five days a week get much more attention at meets and in practice, even though they aren’t any faster or paying any more.  How does this make any sense?  [b]Seems like a pyramid scheme.[/b][/quote]

I don't think you really know what that means.[/quote]

I know exactly what it means.  And it’s not dissimilar.

The “elite” swimmers get a huge discount (financial benefit) at the expense of the people who don’t buy into the cult and promote the insanity of one-sport specialization at a young age.  Seems like a pyramid to me. Recruit a bunch of tubes to subsidize the people that use all of the resources.[/quote]
You can have your kid join one of the clubs that doesn’t offer as many practices for age group swimmers, or has multiple training group options for age groupers based on the level of commitment you want to make to swimming. But I’m guessing you probably also want to benefit from the name brand of the club. [/quote]

No, I really don’t care about the “brand”.  What benefit does that give? I’m just stuck with what we have for the time being because it’s close to our house and we can’t get out money back for the year.  I would gladly leave at this point.[/quote]
Please, there are plenty of people in this area who just want to be able to say their kid is with RMSC/NCAP/Machine. Everything is a trade off. There are so many swimming clubs in the DMV that you have to do your due diligence to figure out what works best for your family and your swimmer. For some people the price point is king, for some it’s proximity to home, for some it’s access to high level training. If I had a multi sport athlete for whom swim was not their top sport, I probably wouldn’t go with one of the pricier clubs and would pay closer attention to things like practice requirement because I would know that my kid wouldn’t be able to make that type of commitment.[/quote]

Yes, but what I’m saying is that we chose a practice group that only requires 2 days a week, and we pay much more per practice than parents that have kids in higher level practice groups with 6 practices per week.  Even the 3 day a week group costs the same as the 6x per week groups.

That is something I didn’t realize when we signed up.  If I had seen that, it would have been a red flag—but I just wasn’t looking at the cost this way.  Now I am and I realize that it doesn’t make sense to pay the price we are paying for what we are getting.  Consider this my PSA to the DCUM community I guess.  Next year we will make a different decision.[/quote]

This is true of many sports - sometimes you pay more for less practice time. Sometimes you pay more for lower quality instruction. Sometimes both. Club soccer C team is a prime example. Consider it a fixed cost plus a rate instead of just a rate. That is how the business is run anyway. [/quote]

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