By Julia Cunningham, Swimming World College Intern
The other day I received a phone call. A fellow coach from the team I work with on campus wanted a few tips about how to teach butterfly. This coach, a former swimmer and a man much older than myself, hoped to learn something from my few years as a swimmer and even fewer years of coaching. At the same time I realized this- that swimming has been a constant learning process through the years. Learning technique, learning new technique, learning how to communicate with coaches -maybe most of the time I wasn’t even aware I was learning, but it happened.
Rewind several years to one of my first ever sleep-away camps. It was a technique clinic at the University of Michigan, back when Michael Phelps was still swimming there. I remember sitting in the over air-conditioned room watching slow motion videos of Phelps swimming fly. “This is Phelps’ stroke, which has changed over the years as he has had to work with his coach to figure out the technique best for him,†our instructor said (or something along those lines). I remember sitting there thinking, “What could Michael Phelps possibly need a coach for? Hasn’t he learned everything he needs to know by now?â€
Throughout your first 20 odd years of life you sit in classes with the sole purpose of learning. It is quite obvious that the point of sitting through daily lectures is for your brain to absorb knowledge. Once you enter “real life†you continue learning, but in a much more subtle fashion. You pick up little tidbits of knowledge here and there, some that may sink in and some that may not. Swimming is the same way, but you never truly leave the classroom. While you no longer require the strict, hand-holding guidance of your eight and under years, you still show up to the pool every day to receive a two-hour lecture on stroke mechanics, intervals and really solidifying those lyrics to that song you were listening to four days ago.
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