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Originally Posted by winnilakegirl
The only thing I remember about this was the summer my parents sent my brother there for two weeks. He hated it and was very home sick.
He had been waterskiing for years behind our boat but at the camp he didn't pass some test so he was not allowed to waterski. That was it for him -he wanted out. I must admit he was (and still is) an excellent water skier and loved to show all he could do. I only wish I could be half the water skier he was at that time.
He was so mad at the camp he refused ever to go again. He said that was the longest two weeks of his life.
winnilakegirl
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My guess would be that your brother might have been quite a good skiier but not such a hot swimmer. The test you refer to is a swim test to make sure a camper is proficient enough to swim on his own safely. Camp Belknap is a YMCA and therefore uses the swim test that has effectively worked for YMCAs for decades to test swimmers' abilities. I must admit, I too had been coming to the lake for a few years before heading to Belknap and some of their policies annoyed me at the time. I really wasn't to hyped about wearing a life jacket on the boat but looking back I realize that these policies help protect the camp in an overly litigated society.