Anonymous wrote:I've never heard good things about the rec center programs. We tried the butterfly/breaststroke class twice and had different, equally terrible instructors. The most frustrating thing was the frequent cancellations.

Thanks for the info. I emailed the Vera Tsunami one for an eval. That one looks like it would be a good fit for us based on the description.

I've never heard good things about the rec center programs. We tried the butterfly/breaststroke class twice and had different, equally terrible instructors. The most frustrating thing was the frequent cancellations.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The goal is to improve before next summer swim.

Does your summer team do a winter program? My kids swim on an NVSL team. Most of the teams around us do a Sunday night winter swim program with our head coach and several of our swim coaches. It's at our local rec center. Our team usually announces it at the end of the summer season so our new families might not know about it but if they ask the team reps, they probably have already worked out the details.

No I wished they did. I will look into some of the ones that have been suggested and rec centers.

York, Norman and Jo Vera at Tsunami have stroke clinics.

Jo Vera is a more traditional ‘stroke technique ’ program, but also does training.

Norman swimming is not competitive (no meets) but keeps kids ‘in shape’ for summer swim and also focuses on strokes.

York swim is competitive (includes meets) but I think also has a developmental program.

For us, we progressed from Jo (stroke technique), to Matt Norman (swimming to keep in shape/build stamina) to York (Competitive winter swim).

Ultimately, choose what works with your schedule….

I am not sure about York now, but about 5 years ago, they also had a separate program to teach strokes.

Ultimately,

Anonymous wrote:The goal is to improve before next summer swim.

Does your summer team do a winter program? My kids swim on an NVSL team. Most of the teams around us do a Sunday night winter swim program with our head coach and several of our swim coaches. It's at our local rec center. Our team usually announces it at the end of the summer season so our new families might not know about it but if they ask the team reps, they probably have already worked out the details.

The goal is to improve before next summer swim.

With what goal? Are you looking for the travel sport equivalent of winter swim or do you just want them in a pool?

Anonymous wrote:Please suggest some fall or winter swim classes or programs for a 10 year old that is legal so far in 2 strokes.

If they are doing summer swim, their goal should be to get legal in all 4 by summer's end. That will open more doors for what they could avail themselves of over the winter as well as accelerate their development over this time period.

Anonymous wrote:Any idea if the stroke mechanics class covers diving in and flip turns?

It does- but they should be able to swim all four strokes at least minimally before signing up for stroke mechanics.

A kid who is doing only free and back should sign up for Swimming for Children IV.

Try the Jewish Community Center in Annandale.

Any idea if the stroke mechanics class covers diving in and flip turns?

Sorry, botched the link. Here it is again: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/reccenter/swimming

Swim classes at the local Fairfax County Rec center really helped my kiddos when they were just getting started. The first made a lot of progress over 6-8 months and then joined a club team the following year. The second benefitted as well but is content to just do summer swim.
trhttps://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/reccenter/swimming

Forgot to mention in Fairfax county but could also possibly do Loudoun, sterling area.

Please suggest some fall or winter swim classes or programs for a 10 year old that is legal so far in 2 strokes.