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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kids never did swim team before I think that’s fine.

Just focus on personal bests for them - if they get a personal best what more can you ask?  :)
It’s possible that once they’re even more used to it, it will click & they’ll knock even more time off.

My 7 y/o went from 34 to 27 in fly last night. It was a new stroke for him this season and I think it just kind of clicked for him last night. At our pool he doesn’t swim A meets this summer - thought he probably will next summer when he’s 8. 
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PP here again, so I am laughing because he actually made it to divisionals as a “wildcard” entry now. So here’s my plan for during the year - I think he and his older sibling are going to do our summer pool’s weekly winter swim program and only that. We do know one guy we like who does private lessons and I think from time to time if there’s a week winter swim is canceled or we can’t make it, I’ll have them go to the other guy for a lesson from time to time for a little extra technical practice.  And, I’m really resolving to really try to get them to a rec center pool from time to time for some more free play / swim this winter.  They may not be the world’s greatest swimmers but they also do other sports and I don’t want to press too hard right now that they stop having fun. It’s a real fine line to walk - because you know they also have fun when they’re doing well.

I am also laughing because for B meets, our pool lets the parents pick what events the kid swims (unless they’re not close to legal or they swam that stroke at an A meet).  Anyway I let my kids pick what they wanted me to sign them up for, and every B meet the 7 y/o picked free and fly and I kept saying he should do back at least one more time after time trials but he refused because he didn’t want to hit his head and he didn’t want to hear about counting strokes after the flags. I begrudgingly let him pick what he wanted, so I guess he showed me, lol.

But also with respect to the other recent post, of course this is the obvious reason why B meet judges have to be true to the stroke and turn rules. [/quote]

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