Blessed!

What a meet...was I dreaming?  NO!

It is something to have a couple of great swims.  It is another to have a truck load.  I'm not shy about it.  I have been blessed with great student-athletes for the past 23 years of taper season coaching.  In 1999 Brian Bartalo and I came up with a 3 week taper.  How much yardage we needed to get done and then how to take it down.  The method to the madness.  The "madness" over the last 13 years has been designing the sets.  What works best.  What is the right thing to do with certain swimmers?  Ed Denny and I have worked at getting the "each season is special" perspective in motion.  No 2 teams, no 2 athletes are the same but the general idea stays the same.  Everything is different but you keep to your basics...what you know works to get the lightning in the bottle.  The basics seem to be get a great base of training during the season then decrease the yardage, increase the interval, believe it or not increase the enthusiasm and intensity.  Watching the kids go through it this season was a lot of fun.  They worked so hard and got the results.

It is faith and belief, the funny thing is about a taper is that it is 75% season long work and 25% PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) and confidence.

I told a coach on deck today "Funny things is...I never thought you could taper an 8 year old".  Well after watching an 8 year old pull off the perfect race plan and drop 9 seconds in the 100 free, I have to believe in "The Taper".

It is magical.

More details and thoughts tomorrow.

For now.....WOW....OMG....and just plain AMAZING.

Making dreams come true one swim at a time!

Coach Scott