Getting the job done on race day with your rowing
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In this video, Olympic gold-medal winning coach Rhett Ayliffe takes us through how coaches and athletes need to think about getting the job done when it matters most.
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Video Transcript
This is more for coaches and about what
people need to get the job done. So Jodi
Henry missed out on the Sydney Olympics by
0.07 of a second so obviously she didn't
quite make the relay team she was 16
years of age she said in hindsight that
was a blessing in disguise her coach and
her identified that her nerves were a
problem so she used to vomit herself
silly in the pre-race you know and they
just see the TV and they'll sitting
around she'll be just vomiting just
constantly vomiting prior to race as a
16 year old. So her coach then addressed
said well what are you going to do to
try and overcome this issue okay
They raced everywhere they could against
all the best people in the world to get
her to actually handle her nerves she's
telling this story yesterday to get her
to handle her nerves. So she makes the
Olympic team fast I think she was
probably the fastest in the country but
she's a first time
Olympian and the story goes that not
very many first-time Olympians can win a
medal or in a gold medal. Usually you
need to go and experience it learn what
it's actually about and then you do it
second time. And the crew that I had had
that had that experience there are there
are exceptions but that's the general
rule. She goes in a semi-final and she
swims the world record that night and
everyone says oh she's peaked a day
early right she's got to race her final
the next day and she's a day early but
do you really lose form in a day I
wouldn't have thought so
but the expectation goes up you're
supposed to win your now gold medalist
you just swam the world record you should win this
race so she got out of the pool and said
to her coach at the time one more day
didn't think about the world record
didn't think about then the next day they
had a plan she wasn't going to go to the
pool at the competition venue
she was going to swim in the village
pool and she told us the story that
she's in the village pool and there's
people with big blow up dolls and it's just like a
playpen and she's just dodging people
and just doing her thing just relaxed
not stressed not meeting up with other
people they're gonna talk to her about
how good she's going just doing her thing
she goes to her warm up, set warm-up, set
routine she does 25 meter pace laps
which they time and those laps 0.15
seconds in that 25 meters slower
than what she swam in the semi the day
before so she's stressing out that she's
going to be 0.6 seconds slower which
could take her from first to fifth or
six and this is where coaching becomes
important so she goes to the side of the
pool and she thinks something's not
right here this is I'm not swimming fast
enough it's not good and her coach says
it's not about the time now you just have
to win the race and she goes oh goes
back and just finishes her warm-up so the
coach said the right thing at the right
time to allow her to be comfortable and
confident about her performance. You guys
can get in athletes' ways. I can get
in the athlete's way because my
expectation sometimes it's not the
athletes expectation positive or
negative and the same thing happens with you
guys. You limit your athletes or you over
overestimate your athletes just let your
athletes be athletes and say the right
things at the right time to allow them
to perform their best whatever that
happens to be whether it's a master
racing at champion Lakes in the
thousand or whether it's your novice
quad racing at the club regatta it
doesn't matter they just go out there
and I can execute to the best of their
ability what can you say that
contributes to that. So the rest is
history she goes on and wins three gold
medals as a first-time Olympian but if
that coach had a panic with her yeah
that's way too slow don't do some more
we'll get it right that's a problem for
her. Thanks for watching our video if you
found it useful please give it a like
and subscribe to our channel as it
really helps us get our name out there
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people need to get the job done. So Jodi
Henry missed out on the Sydney Olympics by
0.07 of a second so obviously she didn't
quite make the relay team she was 16
years of age she said in hindsight that
was a blessing in disguise her coach and
her identified that her nerves were a
problem so she used to vomit herself
silly in the pre-race you know and they
just see the TV and they'll sitting
around she'll be just vomiting just
constantly vomiting prior to race as a
16 year old. So her coach then addressed
said well what are you going to do to
try and overcome this issue okay
They raced everywhere they could against
all the best people in the world to get
her to actually handle her nerves she's
telling this story yesterday to get her
to handle her nerves. So she makes the
Olympic team fast I think she was
probably the fastest in the country but
she's a first time
Olympian and the story goes that not
very many first-time Olympians can win a
medal or in a gold medal. Usually you
need to go and experience it learn what
it's actually about and then you do it
second time. And the crew that I had had
that had that experience there are there
are exceptions but that's the general
rule. She goes in a semi-final and she
swims the world record that night and
everyone says oh she's peaked a day
early right she's got to race her final
the next day and she's a day early but
do you really lose form in a day I
wouldn't have thought so
but the expectation goes up you're
supposed to win your now gold medalist
you just swam the world record you should win this
race so she got out of the pool and said
to her coach at the time one more day
didn't think about the world record
didn't think about then the next day they
had a plan she wasn't going to go to the
pool at the competition venue
she was going to swim in the village
pool and she told us the story that
she's in the village pool and there's
people with big blow up dolls and it's just like a
playpen and she's just dodging people
and just doing her thing just relaxed
not stressed not meeting up with other
people they're gonna talk to her about
how good she's going just doing her thing
she goes to her warm up, set warm-up, set
routine she does 25 meter pace laps
which they time and those laps 0.15
seconds in that 25 meters slower
than what she swam in the semi the day
before so she's stressing out that she's
going to be 0.6 seconds slower which
could take her from first to fifth or
six and this is where coaching becomes
important so she goes to the side of the
pool and she thinks something's not
right here this is I'm not swimming fast
enough it's not good and her coach says
it's not about the time now you just have
to win the race and she goes oh goes
back and just finishes her warm-up so the
coach said the right thing at the right
time to allow her to be comfortable and
confident about her performance. You guys
can get in athletes' ways. I can get
in the athlete's way because my
expectation sometimes it's not the
athletes expectation positive or
negative and the same thing happens with you
guys. You limit your athletes or you over
overestimate your athletes just let your
athletes be athletes and say the right
things at the right time to allow them
to perform their best whatever that
happens to be whether it's a master
racing at champion Lakes in the
thousand or whether it's your novice
quad racing at the club regatta it
doesn't matter they just go out there
and I can execute to the best of their
ability what can you say that
contributes to that. So the rest is
history she goes on and wins three gold
medals as a first-time Olympian but if
that coach had a panic with her yeah
that's way too slow don't do some more
we'll get it right that's a problem for
her. Thanks for watching our video if you
found it useful please give it a like
and subscribe to our channel as it
really helps us get our name out there
if you want our best rowing
information though we save it for our
email list it's free to sign up if you
head
to our website put your email in
instantly you'll get twenty one of our
best rowing videos including beginner and
advanced rowing videos we also have a
couple of training programs and a
training piece so if you want to head
over you can sign up and see what it's
all about