SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA – January-February 2004 CONTENTS ASCTA, PO Box 824, Mailing Address From the Desk of Leigh Nugent .........................1 Lavington NSW 2641 Obituary – ‘Doc’ Counsilman (Cecil M. Colwin) ...2 Email [email protected] Olympic Qualifications Procedures – Swimming12 Web Site www.ascta.com New Anti-Doping Policy (John Priestly).............14 Membership Phone: 02 6041 6077 Breaking the Magic Minute Barrier (Phillip Enquiries Fax: 02 6041 4282 ASCTA Insurance Whitten)...........................................................15 1300 300 511 Nutritional Requirements for Optimum Brokers Swimming Performance (Karen Inge)................17 Understanding Efficient Technique (Dick SWIMMING in AUSTRALIA is published six times Hannula & Bruce Mason) .................................19 annually. Racing Starts (Dick Hannula) ...........................22 Racing Turns (Dick Hannula) ...........................24 Copy Deadline th Great Start – Fast Turn – Top Finish (Dick January-February 15 January th Hannula Bruce Mason)....................................26 March-April 15 March th The Essentials of Great Breaststroke (Michael May-June 15 May th Piper)...............................................................28 July-August 15 July September-October 15th September Breaststroke (Dick Hannula) ............................31 th Kicking Phenomenon (John Lohn) ....................32 November-December 15 November Standing Tall (Ed Odeven) ...............................35 Butterfly & Weightless Hands (Kerry O’Brien) ..39 The Lowdown on Hypoxic Training (Kevin Milak)41 Advertising Rates (inc. GST) Sports Psychology (Scott Boyle)........................43 1 Issue 3 Issues 6 Issues Health Waves ..................................................45 $ $ $ What’s Cookin’? (Bill Volckening)......................46 Full Page 600 1,300 1,850 LEARN TO SWIM.............................................46 ¾ Page 500 1,100 1,500 Building the Foundation (Johnny Johnson)........... 46 ½ Page 300 750 1,200 What are you made of? (Phillip Whitten) ...........48 ¼ Page 200 500 900 Look Professional (Carolynn Burt) ....................49 Banner 4cm x 1col 55 A Speedster before her time.............................50 Get into the Swim ...........................................51 FINA Aquatics World .......................................51 NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS A Gift from Santa Claus – Finland has a new hero … Hanna-Maria Seppala (Pedro Adrega ................ 51 All copy is subject to acceptance by the publisher. 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Providing safe environments for children (Queensland Government Department of Families)..........................................................58 COPYRIGHT ISSUE FROM THE PUBLISHER Ugly Parent Syndrome (The AusSport Post) ......63 Ursula’s Annual Update (Ursula Carlile)...........70 As more and more articles with invaluable technical Swimming Fastest in Review (Ernie Maglischo).79 and research data have and will be published WSCA Newsletter.............................................83 through our Magazine for our Members to read and 2003 State-of-the-Sport Report (Chuck Wielgus) ... 83 use, it is timely to mention Copyright infringements. A few thoughts on why Coaches get fired (Guy Edson) ................................................................. 89 The ASCTA Magazine (SWIMMING in AUSTRALIA) Application of Training Physiology (Bill Publisher strongly advises all concerned that any Sweetenham) ....................................................... 91 attempts to reprint articles or excerpts from contents Application of Biomechanics to Training/Racing is prohibited without the written permission of the (Bill Sweetenham)................................................. 92 Professionalising the Coaching of Swimming (John publisher and author. Any infringements of copyright Leonard)............................................................... 93 will be dealt with accordingly. How Sweetenham got Britain to swim against the tide (Peta Bee) ...................................................... 94 Views expressed in articles are those of the Emotional Intelligence (Karen Peterson) ................ 95 authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Dealing with Disappointment (Misty Hyman) ...96 the Editor or the Board of ASCTA. Swim for Fitness (Scott Rabalais) .....................98 SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA – January-February 2004 The Melbourne World Cup displayed evidence of this characteristic and it was reflected in the high standard of swimming performances; it may result in what will possibly be the fastest world cup meet of the series. From the Desk of Apart from a handful of internationals LEIGH NUGENT it was largely Australians setting that Acting High Performance Director standard. Australian Swimming Following the World Cup was the highly successful national event camp on the Gold Coast. Again swimmers and coaches were demonstrating that they were trying harder. Swimmers were displaying a greater competitiveness at workouts as well as a willingness to learn and improve their skills; a characteristic I haven’t witnessed in past, recent years. Since December 2003 I have been appointed to the role of Acting High I am spending my time now developing Performance Director of Australian the plan that is already in place for the Swimming. Athens Olympics. Much has already been done but there is still a lot of detail to be I will be performing the duties of the attended to, with particular attention High Performance Director through to the being focused on getting in place the World Short Course Championships, special requests that we have asked for in which are being conducted in October regard to upgrading the staging camp 2004 in the USA. venue at Sindelfingen. A visit is planned for Sindelfingen and the Olympic site in I am currently touring the State Athens at an appropriate time in the near Championships and taking the future, to ensure that our preparation opportunity to talk to swimmers and runs as smoothly as possible. coaches about their plans in getting themselves ready for the Olympic Trials In any preparation it is vital that and, if successful, their longer term plans swimmers stay injury and illness free, for their preparation for the Olympics. because only in this state can you prepare 100% effectively. There have been some very encouraging performances at these championships so far; particularly considering that virtually all of the swimmers are in hard work whilst they are competing over this period. The preparation in the Olympic year is always different to the three long course preparations preceding it. Everyone tries harder. Page 1 SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA – January-February 2004 OBITUARY COACHING PHILOSOPHY JAMES EDWARD ‘DOC’ COUNSILMAN Doc’s coaching philosophy was influenced in Born Birmingham, Alabama, 28th December 1920 several ways by the late Ernst Vornbrock who Died 5.30am, 4th January, 2004, Bloomington, aimed to help swimmers achieve their full Indiana academic, athletic, and social potential. By Cecil M. Colwin “Maturity in coaching is important; not only should the coach be aware of one’s own basic Coach James Edward ‘Doc’ Counsilman of needs, but also of Indiana University, who passed those of the team, away in Bloomington, Indiana, on and when the two 4th January, 2004, after many years coincide, the coach of suffering the torments of usually has a very Parkinson’s disease, was recognised sound philosophy.” world-wide as one of the great coaches in swimming history and Doc warned about also as the pre-eminent visionary in getting caught in the the history of swimming. True, trap of seeking to others have made major discoveries, develop champions but taking the science of only. “You don’t have competitive swimming, from the to sacrifice the rest birth of the sport, to the time of of the team to Counsilman, what ‘Doc’ contributed develop the was much the better half. His life’s exceptional few”, he work will leave an indelible mark on often said. “Develop the sport. a state of mind that concerns itself with A list of swimmers who swam for everyone on the team. Then you will have more Doc reads like a who’s who of swimming greats; than your fair share of champions and fewer Mark Spitz, Jim Montgomery, Gary Hall, John champions will have a distorted idea of their Kinsella, Mike Troy, Charles Hickcox, Don own importance.” McKenzie, Chet Jastremski, Tom Stock, George Breen, Mike Stamm, Alan Somers, Ted Stickles, Doc readily admits that he learned a great Larry Schulhof, John Murphy, and many deal from the talented swimmers he coached. others. “For example, Mark Spitz taught me a lot”, he says. “Great swimmers usually have an innate Doc’s swimmers gloried in hard, intelligent sense of how they function. They seem to know work, and they attached a stigma to those who instinctively how hard they need to work, and didn’t pull their weight. Doc was a born master when they need to ease off. There’s no need for of group dynamics; he used positive thinking, the slave-driver approach to coaching. By ritual, ceremony, and tradition to bond respecting the swimmer’s