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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing about this story makes sense.

Other kids who suck at basketball in his local rec league (you said he's running circles around them with no basketball experience, right?) are also bullying him to say swimming is lame and basketball is cool?   So kids are harassing him to play basketball with them, a sport they aren't good at and play at a low level?

I have a swimmer.  You can fit in a low key basketball rec league without super uptight attendance expectations no problem.  One practice a week and one game a weekend.  My son did it for years.  Our county provides the league through 12th grade.  Which is common.

And agree you calling it travel swim is weird.  No one ever calls it that.

#bullshit[/quote]

Thanks for chiming in, Columbo. I think the pressure against swimming is coming from boys at school and friends he plays the online video games with, not the basketball team. And basketball seems fun because he believes he's really good without really any practice. While swimming is tons of practices to become as good as he's become. But he's not good at basketball, he only THINKS he's good. He is exceptional at swimming because of the practices and his body type.[/quote]

Sorry I still don't buy that middle school boys give a shite if he swims or plays basketball.  I don't know if you are in DC area but around here summer swim is a huge deal and good swimmers do have some social capital.

Again though why does he have to choose?[/quote]

if he's doing club swim, then yes it's bit of a choice since practices/games/meets are both in the thick of winter season. If you have the flexibility of switching to morning practices for swim, then you could consider afternoons for basketball and just deal with the fact that you'll miss some meets/games here and there as winter/spring champs roll around, he'll just have to decide what's more important to him.

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You can dial down winter swim.  Really, you can.[/quote]

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