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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While camp might give swim lessons, you shouldn't be expecting them to teach her to swim. Swim team or swim lessons while at home is how she'd pass the test and how her friends are doing it. Camp for a few weeks for 4 years plus messing around in the pool won't teach her.[/quote]

This. Takes hundreds to thousands of hours swimming to become a good swimmer. [/quote]

You gotta be kidding.[/quote]

This seems true to me.  I’m sure that an older child or adult who spent most of their swim time focused on becoming a strong swimmer could do it faster.  But my kids probably spent at least 500 hours in the water before they could swim, and another 3-400 before they really became strong swimmers.
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Instructor. This is accurate. And there's also a big difference between a kid who can swim a length of decent freestyle, which is the point at which most parents bail out on lessons, versus a kid who is competent in the water and truly a strong swimmer. I'm adding things up and my kid probably had done 800-1000 hours between lessons, family swim time, summer swim team, and lake swimming before I stopped watching her all of the time in the lake or the pool. [/quote]

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