At
the US Open in August we saw this brilliant T-Shirt on a man from Texas (UT)…
THE MAIN THING
IS TO KEEP THE
MAIN THING
THE MAIN THING
Whoever
put that together should win a medal. The first person who sends me a shirt (I
wear extra-large – Don 36 Montego Key, Novato, CA 94949) I’ll send you a $100
bill.
It
got us to thinking about simplicity. We have a youngster on our team, an 8th
grader named Sydney B, who has some pop in her game. We asked her the other day
if she knew she had some skill in our sport. She smiled sheepishly and nodded
her head “affirmatively”. We then asked her if she had any “will”.
We
said SKILL+WILL = WHAT YOU WANT. In our attempt to keep it simple we reaffirmed
that skill is acquired through repetition of correct swimming. The will part
comes from each person/swimmer deciding that they want something they don’t
have.
This
is called a goal…again keeping it simple.
We
had a girl this weekend who swam an awesome 500 free. She has tons of skill and
is working on the will component. We asked her how come Katie Ledecky swims so
fast; there are many skilled swimmers. We asked her to consider Ledecky’s
“will” component.
Would
really love that T-Shirt J
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