SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA – March-April 2004 CONTENTS Learn from the Olympians — Michael Phelps’ Head Position (Cecil Colwin).............................67 Taking the next Coach – Confidence & Loyalty Preparing for Athens — Training Pieter van den in Swimming (Brad Cooper) ...............................1 Hoogenband (Oene Rusticus)............................70 Developing Young Distance Swimmers in A Golden Opportunity (Phillip Whitten).............74 Australia — Bill Sweetenham (Laura Matuzak) ..6 The Resilience of a Champion – Amanda Beard Enabling & Disenabling: (Stephanie Smith) ........7 (Tito Morales) ...................................................75 Physiological Considerations in preparation for Phelps vs. Spitz: Who is the Greatest? (John Sprint Events (Leigh Nugent)..............................8 Craig) ..............................................................79 Contracts with Kids — Child’s Play? (Roland WSCA Newsletter.............................................81 The Leader of the Future (William C. Taylor).......... 81 Davies) ..............................................................9 A Student’s View — Distance Swimming (Courtney LEARN-TO-SWIM ............................................11 Beyer) .................................................................. 85 From Wiggle-Butts to Butterfly (Liesl Taner & Anya Recruiting & Retaining Minority Athletes (Lee Kolbisen) .............................................................. 11 Willing)................................................................. 90 Your Best Friend at the Pool (Jeff Grace)............... 12 Factors Affecting Performance (Greg Cronauer)...... 92 Security Alert ..................................................13 How to become employed — stay employed — not Butterfly Drills (Ugur Taner).............................14 get fired (John Leonard) ........................................ 95 Warning Signs — unnecessary or a sign of the Don’t neglect the Immune System (Matt Fitzgerald)96 times? (Michelle Wilde).....................................16 1-2-3 … come Rhythmic Breathe with me! (Evelyn FINA Aquatics World .......................................17 Streett) ................................................................. 98 Review 2003 – It was a very good year .................. 17 ASCTA, PO Box 824, Lavington 2003-2004 World Cup — Klochkova, superstar .... 20 Mailing Address 2003-2004 World Cup — Jones & Phelps, sublime21 NSW 2641 Development of Masters in Oceania — Continuous Email [email protected] Progress............................................................... 22 Web Site www.ascta.com Concussion in aquatic sports: Brain — Sensitive Membership Phone: 02 6041 6077 Point.................................................................... 24 Enquiries Fax: 02 6041 4282 ASCTA Insurance Doping News........................................................ 26 1300 300 511 7th FINA World Championships — Presentation of Brokers the Mascot ........................................................... 26 SWIMMING in AUSTRALIA is published six times annually. 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Building a Senior Program — Dick Jochums The ASCTA Magazine (SWIMMING in AUSTRALIA) Publisher (Laura Matuzak) ..............................................60 strongly advises all concerned that any attempts to reprint Training Technique — ALL THE TIME (Phillip articles or excerpts from contents is prohibited without the written permission of the publisher and author. Any Whitten)...........................................................61 infringements of copyright will be dealt with accordingly. A Medicine Ball Training Program (Mike Views expressed in articles are those of the authors and Barrowman) ....................................................62 do not necessarily reflect those of the Editor or the Board Tower of Ten (Dr. Doug Hankes).......................65 of ASCTA. SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA – March-April 2004 TAKING THE NEXT COACH frustrating years weathering all sorts of situations. Coaches also become ill or distracted CONFIDENCE & LOYALTY IN SWIMMING by personal issues, which may pique an By Brad Cooper impatient or unsympathetic competitor. Others 1972 Olympic Champion – 400m Freestyle might inexplicably lose the knack of sustaining For journalists covering athlete/coach a keen training environment, or have it done for relationships, the dog-bites-man story is the them by a multiple retirement of top swimmers feature article about hard won success and ... or relocation of venue. Swimmers, for their loyalty, while the more coveted man-bites-dog part, might agonise over switching following piece is about break-ups. Front page treatment chronic poor form, health or attitude. Others, for the Thorpe-Frost separation and Leyton less genuine, can be swayed by a charismatic Hewitt’s last switch showed nothing changes. peer, speculating that such a positive athlete GETTING ON & GETTING OUT... must have a positive coach. One suspect motive Aleksandre Popov’s and Gennadi Touretski’s is the complaint that a coach relies too much on partnership is often held up as an ideal. In their hard work and not enough on technique. This case, public deference to the other’s abilities may be taken as code for it must be easier has been an art form. Their regular avowals of somewhere else and signals a decline in the confidence, as well as being a wise public motivational ethic. relations expedient, also indicate a deep Some simply resent the public primacy of the personal responsibility for performance ... coach, and migrate to shake off a demeaning (another great career move!). While some may perception of conquering puppet. (Don Talbot wish to replicate this teamwork in their own was under no illusions about swimmer self- backyards, the real power in such relationships centredness on this issue, reassuring suspects seems to lay more in unilateral commitments to he could only be successful with likely winners the whole than in mutual synchronising of the anyway). Another dubious motive asserts that a halves ... making prescriptive duplication rare. swimmer has outgrown his squad. But In fact for many athletes, the self-serving complaints of having nobody to chase can be imperative of sport tempts cyclical positions of an insincere rationale to bask in the prestige of expectation, doubt and frustration, relieved – a more prominent venue. Grant Hackett has but not dispelled – by occasional satisfaction gone from success to success chasing nobody and celebration. If worse comes to worst in for much of the last decade. And it seems only terms of confidence, separation can be fair that swimmers who benefit from chasing contemplated. While this is an option of last leaders must also expect one day to pay their resort for the coach (being hostage to entwined dues by leading themselves. And finally, in very interests of swimmer, squad, and career), rare instances, coaches have been known to swimmers may act more capriciously. Age- breach trust to a degree that not only destroys groupers might follow parental advice, but those one relationship, but jeopardises whole careers. old enough to leave home will be old enough to WHY DOES “SWIMMER SECURITY” leave a coach for any reason they like. At the MATTER? bottom line, they might vigorously defend a Some coaches get off to flying career starts change by citing the customer’s prerogative