:) Do/Can most Australians swim?

Yeah that's something I wonder about. :afraid: But at Beijing a large number of our swim team girls were ones who'd been coached by him.... Well I have little doubt about it. I'm a triathlon coach that has never done one single race. For me, it's the same principle as what leads a blind person to live a normal life. They compensate somewhere else. I just wonder if he ever coached at lower levels though. For sure, if you coach at a high level, it ain't a bad thing not knowing how to swim. He probably compensates with a lot of video sessions. I'm surprised that nowadays, I never see any swim coach (around where I swim) with a small camera nearby. Damn. I had to go through the pain of operating VHS with huge monitor back then. Now all they have to have is a small camera. I bet that he uses a lot of video feed back. If the swimmer sees himself and that you can discuss whilst running the clip slowmo, that does the trick perfectly.

Yeah that's something I wonder about. :afraid: But at Beijing a large number of our swim team girls were ones who'd been coached by him.... Well I have little doubt about it. I'm a triathlon coach that has never done one single race. For me, it's the same principle as what leads a blind person to live a normal life. They compensate somewhere else. I just wonder if he ever coached at lower levels though. For sure, if you coach at a high level, it ain't a bad thing not knowing how to swim. He probably compensates with a lot of video sessions. I'm surprised that nowadays, I never see any swim coach (around where I swim) with a small camera nearby. Damn. I had to go through the pain of operating VHS with huge monitor back then. Now all they have to have is a small camera. I bet that he uses a lot of video feed back. If the swimmer sees himself and that you can discuss whilst running the clip slowmo, that does the trick perfectly.