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(Please quote our promo code TS001.) *Only on ANTI Block with TrackStart Orders with promotional code quoted (07) 3812 2283 (07) 3812 1187 [email protected] Or Dive Into Our New Look Website - www.antiwave.com.au 40 SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA ascta Journal [DEC 2011] V1.indd 40 30/11/2011 12:17:32 PM Will it take a sub 49 Seconds to make the 100m Freestyle final in Adelaide? by Ian Hanson The 2012 Olympic Trials in Adelaide are Melbourne for the first time since the 2006 under 47.20 at the Trials, which is certainly emerging as the greatest showdown meet Commonwealth Games Trials. letting his rivals know that if they want to in the sport’s recent history as swimming’s beat him, that’s how fast they’ll have to biggest names gear up for those coveted swim. NSW in February is without doubt the key places on the team for London – especially lead up meet, placed just over a month out Never in his wildest dreams did Magnussen in the men’s 100m freestyle. from the Trials – a meet coaches get a real believe he may one day be racing alongside gauge of where their charges are placed. his heroes for a place on the Olympic team. There will be no second chances in a winner take all meet which can have as And while much of the talk on recent times When Magnussen started to progress much heartache and heartbreak as joy and has been about the comebacks waiting for through the age group ranks Thorpe and jubilation. the golden oldies will be the next generation Klim were well and truly entrenched in of 100m freestyle sprinters led by reigning retirement. It is a simple formula: Finish first or second world champion James Magnussen and and swim under the A qualifying time and former world record holder and Olympic “The 4x100m freestyle relay at the Sydney you book your seat on the plane. silver medallist Eamon Sullivan. Olympics was my first memory of swimming at an elite level…. well it was the first race Finish first and under the B qualifying time Throw a host of powerful young sprinters that I can remember watching,” recalled and also book your place or finish in the first like Matt Targett, Matt Abood, James Magnussen. six in the freestyle relay events and put your Roberts, Kyle Richardson and boom Gold self in the discretionary frame. 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Olympics but it always seems such a distant Klim will target the 50 and 100m freestyle thing and possibly at times an unrealistic and the 100m butterfly, where he will meet (07) 3812 1187 Magnussen’s 47.49 is the where the bar is goal but now to have it so close and have it old rival Geoff Huegill, whose name first sitting at the moment – but he aims to lower just around the corner it’s a pretty exciting emerged on the world record list in the 50m that and quick smart. time.” [email protected] butterfly in 2000. He has certainly put himself out there saying And time will tell whether Thorpie will join Or Dive Into Our New Look Website - www.antiwave.com.au The Victorian State Championships will see he has set his sights on Cesar Cielo’s 46.91 Magnussen on the world’s greatest sporting Ian Thorpe, the Olympic bronze medallist “suit assisted mark” in London and a time of stage.• over 100m in Athens, race long course in SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA 41 ascta Journal [DEC 2011] V1.indd 41 30/11/2011 12:17:34 PM COACHING THE Uncoachables By Wayne Goldsmith When it comes down to it, the day to day of equipment to measure them. But, their You can train someone to coach the coaching of swimming is not that difficult. impact on performance is immeasurable. coachables: i.e. the physical, mental, Get the physiology right. Teach the basics Their role in success unparalleled. Their technical and tactical aspects of swimming well. Work hard on achieving technical place in excellence unmatched. Their effect relatively easily. A well designed coaching excellence. Focus on mastering swimming on winning unsurpassed. course, some intelligent assessment skills (dives, starts, turns and finishes). processes, some ongoing professional Teach swimmers how to race and how to The Un-coachables are: development and continuous improvement and bang! We have ourselves a swimming use effective competition strategies. It's not coach who can coach all the things in rocket science. • Desire swimming which are coachable. • Desperation However, these things are not coaching. And, with the amazing resources of the • Hunger for success They are merely teaching the mechanics of Internet, anyone can find out anything, the swimming: they are more about learning • Determination anytime, anywhere and for free so than leadership, more about information • Resilience increasingly anybody from parents to presidents can learn the coachable things in than innovation and more about instruction • Passion than inspiration. swimming just by turning on a computer or • Motivation smart-phone. • Unbreakable self-confidence And, these are not the things that determine success: these are not the things that mean But does that mean the coach, or more the difference between winning and losing. So, now you have to ask.....if these un- importantly the coach's swimmers will be coachables are critical for swimming successful? No. Because the things that The things that do determine success and success, and I am a coach, and I want my really matter are the un-coachables. the things that do mean the difference swimmers to succeed, how can I coach between winning and losing are much things that can't be coached? harder to find and even harder to measure. So how do you Coach the Un-coachables? The short answer is, you don't. Great question. Here's how. They are the un-coachables: those You don't include coaching the un- intangible, elusive factors which make Coaching the Un-coachables is what coachables in your coaching process and champions champions and swimmers Coaching is really all about your learned coaching methodologies.