Swimming Coaching Coaches

The new movie Swimming Upstream is a reminder that truth, though not always stranger than fiction, often makes for better films. Based on his autobiography, this is the story of Anthony Fingleton, who survived a tough Brisbane childhood at the hands of a drunken, bullying father to become a champion swimmer in the early 1960s.
Speaking of champions czech out the coaching the coach for children program:
You have to teach every child to swim as if they're going to be an Olympian. Because if they're 80 years old (like Norman Mailer) and they're in a wheel chair you can chuck them in the pool and they can still swim like an Olympian but you can't run a marathon when you're 80.
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