{"id":22467,"date":"2009-10-27T13:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2009\/10\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\/"},"modified":"2014-07-27T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T06:58:40","slug":"cant-we-all-just-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t We All Just Get Along?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Excerpt by Chris DeSantis, originally published on <a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.tv\/blogs\/2009\/10\/27\/cant-we-all-just-get-along.html target=_blank>SwimmingWorld.TV<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA, Georgia, October 27. IN my personal pantheon of coaching heroes, Doc Counsilman stands alone. I first knew of him only incidentally &#8211; his son had been the head coach of my club team when I started swimming. It wasn&#39;t until the summer of 2004 that I would truly discover the wisdom of Doc.<\/p>\n<p>That summer I was charged with what was at first an overwhelming task: to look through 20 years of ASCA speeches and publications and pull them into one coherent document. I was to make a manual for introducing novice coaches to the sport. The reason I had been given the task was two-fold. My boss knew that despite the warnings of my elders, I truly wanted to be a swim coach. He thought I would learn a lot by putting it together, and that it would help those that came after me.<\/p>\n<p>As I poured over the speeches and essays, I quickly found ways to disqualify certain items. Many were incredibly dated &#8211; coaches spinning yarns about who they were training at the time and how fast they were. But above all others, there was one guy who wrote prolifically and timelessly: James Edward &quot;Doc&quot; Counsilman.<\/p>\n<p>Doc had concrete advice on how to coach. He covered wide ranges of topics, suggested sets, referenced sports psychology. He had the whole package. He was a swim coaching renaissance man. I never finished the manual that I set out to put together in the first place, but I certainly learned a lot in the process.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of Doc last week when I picked up an ASCA magazine from 2008. Inside was an incredibly fascinating reprint of an article entitled &quot;All That Yardage.&quot; I had never read it. It was essentially a rambling rebuke of the theories put forth by a young coach who Doc admitted had smarts but was certainly wrong. The name of the young coach? David Salo. Salo had just published an article entitled &quot;The Distance Myth&quot; where he had set out to disprove that everyone needed 10,000-20,000 yards a day.<\/p>\n<p><b>To read the rest of the story, head over to <a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.tv\/blogs\/2009\/10\/27\/cant-we-all-just-get-along.html target=_blank>SwimmingWorld.TV<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt by Chris DeSantis, originally published on SwimmingWorld.TV ATLANTA, Georgia, October 27. IN my personal pantheon of coaching heroes, Doc Counsilman stands alone. 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