Super Sport System’s coaches on all continents produced solid summer performances!

 

It’s become customary for us to report the successes of our users, and there are a number of very good reasons for doing this. To begin with… the fact that 3S coaches can achieve consistent and appreciable improvement with 3S speaks for the quality of our service. (And those results can’t be denied or explained away as the “magic touch” of a few special coaches, since coaches all over the world report the same things.) But perhaps even more importantly, is our desire to share with you the rate of individual progress that our coaches have been able to achieve with our tools. 

 

Those results have established new guidelines for results progression and individual adaptation boundaries, which will not only benefit 3S coaches but coaches everywhere. Tracking these results is part of an ongoing global research effort that will open new horizons in coaching for generations to come.

 

By their efforts ALL 3S users (newbies and veterans alike) contribute to the way we create today’s champions. To me, this IS the biggest value 3S can offer to its users.

 

Following this line of thinking, we need to note and compare the results different coaches have been able to achieve. And since this is an Olympic year, it offers us a unique opportunity to benchmark Olympic time requirements.

 

To this end we have selected three coaches at random. Their different stories of exceptional success while using 3S testifies to our belief that ANY coach anywhere in the World can achieve comparable results using our tools.

 

1.             Coach Victor Pedro Reveles Castillo, Mexico

 

I met Victor last year at a World Aquatic Clinic in Leon, Mexico where I was delivering a seminar to swim coaches on contemporary training methodology. Victor came up to me and asked if I could help him prepare his son, Said, for the 2011 National Championship with 3S. That was the beginning of our relationship, which then quickly grew into a professional partnership. Working with Victor was a delight. He constantly asked questions, experimented with different strategies, and explored all of our tools and training components. In short he was an ideal 3S user.

 

      Said Reveles, Sergei Beliaev, Victor Reveles

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is the outcome of that relationship…

 

STROKE

DIST       (50 LCM)

July-August 2010

July-August 2011

% Improv.

Breast

50

31.17

29.97

3.85%

 

100

1:10.62

1:06.65

5.62%

Free

50

25.37

24.6

3.04%

 

100

59.17

54.4

8.06%

Back

50

32.97

27.92

15.32%

 

100

1:07.00

1:03

5.97%

Fly

50

27.28

26.33

3.48%

 

100

1:02.75

1:00

4.38%

 

 

Said’s results improved an average of 3.18% on 50 m distances, and 6.01% on 100 m events.  (I did not include his enormous 15% improvement in backstroke, since that result was out of range and would have skewed the mean). While progress like this is most certainly within the range of results we would expect with 3S, it was also more than enough to garner recognition in the national arena.  Needless to say that we are very proud of Coach Reveles’s success, and wish him even greater ones in the 2012 Olympic year!

 

2.  Coach Stefan Swanepol, New Zealand just reported these results.

 

We had a great Nationals last week!

v            Gold in 800 m Freestyle

v            Silver in 400 m Freestyle

v            Bronze in 200 m Freestyle!

 

Stefan only started using 3S last spring, and initially he had a lot of concerns about our approach. But with results like this, he’s a believer now. Way to go, Stefan!

 

3. Coach Thomas Orlie Johnson (University of Wyoming)

 

Coach Johnson is a regular 3S user now, even though his first season with us did not go as smoothly as he would have liked. Despite that disappointment, Tom was determined to use us and put additional effort into learning the system. And now his Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls repeatedly shine at conference and NCAA’s finals. These are the summer results of just 3 of his swimmers…

 

v            Kelsey Conci: went from 1:04.7 to 1:01.7 in the 100 m Back, and also qualified in 50 m FR (a 4.64% improvement)

v            Morgan Hartigan: swam a 1:11 in the 100 m Breast (from 1:13), dropped 10 secs. off her 200 m Breast and 200 IM, and just missed 200 IM trials cut by .2 sec.

v            Brandon Fischer: swimming in the 200 IM, 100 and 200 Breast went from 2:10 to 2:06 in 200 IM and 2:21-2:16 in 200 Breast this summer (a 5.71% improvement)

 

So what is the common denominator between coaches Reveles, Swanepol, and Johnson?  Clearly, the rate of improvement they reached is very comparable regardless the high level of their athletes. But what made them successful was their desire to learn and explore new training methods, and then have the courage to implement them in daily training.

 

At 3S we are very proud of these coaches who have chosen our tools to drive their athletes to success. They succeeded with us, and we know you can too!