How many o you know what is paid to your coach/coaches for the season ?
Do you pay into a required fund for the team or a monthly pay or how does the team do it?
how much do you think the coach should make for the time & effort of practices -meets - meetings required to run the team?
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Former Member
Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!(...)
There are 3 categories of persons in life Lindsay:
1. Those who are in the parade
2. Those who are a aware that there's a parade. They work hard to someday be part of it
3. Those who aren't even aware that there's a parade.
Deciders, those who are part of the decision process in these swim clubs that are using the Masters program as a fund raiser for their AG program, mostly belong to the 3rd category. And they will probably remain there forever and a day.
As you know, I sometimes train with one of the rare structure that's fully dedicated to Masters, and even there, the level of coaching is so so.... to say the least.
People couldn't care less about Masters, that's the fact. Best way I guess to help changing this, is to continue to do what you've done so far, and that is initiating projects that are for all, and documenting other projects on our Canadian Masters Website.
Now people may be wondering, how can I know if the structure I am in care about Masters? Here's a simple clue:
If you're training for a full year without any stroke correction feed back provided with VIDEO SUPPORT, there's a clue right there!
Back in the days I was a full time coach, I would bring the darn big and heavy VHS system even for masters, on a steady basis. Did I have to? Course not. Why would I then? Cause those poor Master suffering from injuries well deserve this special treatment. That was back in early Ninties dammit!
Nowadays with the small portable cameras and stuff? If they don't even care showing you what you look like when you swim, and keep issuing a bunch of "do this, do that instead of this" with no real follow up no video support? To me, that's a clue!
Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!(...)
There are 3 categories of persons in life Lindsay:
1. Those who are in the parade
2. Those who are a aware that there's a parade. They work hard to someday be part of it
3. Those who aren't even aware that there's a parade.
Deciders, those who are part of the decision process in these swim clubs that are using the Masters program as a fund raiser for their AG program, mostly belong to the 3rd category. And they will probably remain there forever and a day.
As you know, I sometimes train with one of the rare structure that's fully dedicated to Masters, and even there, the level of coaching is so so.... to say the least.
People couldn't care less about Masters, that's the fact. Best way I guess to help changing this, is to continue to do what you've done so far, and that is initiating projects that are for all, and documenting other projects on our Canadian Masters Website.
Now people may be wondering, how can I know if the structure I am in care about Masters? Here's a simple clue:
If you're training for a full year without any stroke correction feed back provided with VIDEO SUPPORT, there's a clue right there!
Back in the days I was a full time coach, I would bring the darn big and heavy VHS system even for masters, on a steady basis. Did I have to? Course not. Why would I then? Cause those poor Master suffering from injuries well deserve this special treatment. That was back in early Ninties dammit!
Nowadays with the small portable cameras and stuff? If they don't even care showing you what you look like when you swim, and keep issuing a bunch of "do this, do that instead of this" with no real follow up no video support? To me, that's a clue!
