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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tennis anyone? [/quote]

I responded with tennis a few pages ago. We encouraged tennis because of the whole life-long sport aspect but DC is fed up with the whole scene, with hyper-competitive jerky kids and strict coaches who are constantly yelling and putting enormous pressure on everyone. Child still enjoys the game but doesn't want to play competitively at all anymore. I wish we had stuck to the group classes at the rec center and the summer league at the pool and avoided the indoor racquet clubs completely. Very expensive mistake.[/quote]

I'm the PP above you and rec classes is the way we went.
I had been involved competitively in tennis when I was young and disliked the atmosphere even then. I knew my kids would hate it. Right now, they have good skills but would never make any of our high school teams. DH and I regularly play with them and it's just been fun now that they have gotten better. It works for us. Can't put it on a college app, but that's fine with us.
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