Saturday, May 9, 2015

An Overview Of Swim Team Coaching

By Joanna Walsh


Do you enjoy swimming and love the fun that comes with being deep inside the water? If your answer is yes, you have a starting point to make it in coaching swimmers. However, fantasy in swimming does not translate to being a good coach, hence you need to pay attention to the following lessons from a swim team coaching from the City of West Chester.

Coaching calls for you to be excellent if not an accomplished swimmer. Going back to class may not be an option for you, but it is worth it in order to put yourself up to date with swimming techniques. In any sport players believe they are as good as their coach so work on demonstrating this by acquiring the required skills. Practice makes perfect they say so if you have been out of swimming for a while some of the skills you possessed may have turned brunt by now. You should consider sharpening them by enrolling into a class.

Paying attention is one of the special gift you need to posses. By doing so you can identify players strengths as well as weaknesses and as the coach identify ways of improving on them. For example, how often do you spot a swimmer performing excellently in backstrokes? If you spot one take your time to encourage them to continue and improve on the same.

It is the desire of every team to carry home trophies after participating in competition. In some instances this is not always the case and this may have a detrimental effect on your team. As their leader you need to make it clear that failure in any venture is not fatal and success is neither final. You should exercise caution when exercising this crucial mantra to avoid tolerating substandard performance.

More often than not you may end up thinking of yourself as the best hence you better take caution as this may be the genesis of your downfall. To excel in this prominent and fulfilling career you need to heed to advices from fellow coaches. Ensure that you take enough lessons from your career to add up to your experience.

Just like the class work scenario swimming calls for a combination of both hand work and talent. It is not a must that the most hardworking students scope the top position in class similarly the most hardworking swimmers does not necessarily wins. By this I am not belittling the power of hard work, but am saying that it should be accompanied by a genuine talent.

It is common for coaches to separate themselves from the game. One way of doing this is by setting stringent level of discipline to be followed by the players and not the coaches. Rules are fundamental in instilling discipline in any setting, but these rules are better followed if those who enact them follow them as well. As their leader you need to possess the highest level of discipline possible.

Lastly, as the coach always remember that you are just an assistant to each and every swimmer. This calls for you to act as one and help the inner real coach within the swimmers to reveal themselves.




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