Schooling and the Quahs are Proof No Need FT in Sports

[bushtucker]

swimming is not really expensive and not a rich man's sport. it is the professional training that costs a lot.

if our medal winning swimmers trained by themselves, they only need to pay $1 to the public swimming complex and swim the 50m pool the whole day.

but to reach gold standard, they need to pay for a pro coach to bring them up to standard.

 

[GoldenDragon]

They want to see instant results and believe in short cuts and cutting corners...like the former SMRT CEO..So on the sporting scenes, they go for cheap imports and third rated rejects from China.

The KTV and hang flower joints is quite similar to our ATBs in the sports arena. The high end tua kong ones remain in China. Only the so-so ones will come here.

Btw, where is the cb Li Jia Wei after making her millions?

 

[GoldenDragon]

The PAP wants prestige and gold medals - never mind how they are gotten or who won them. As for locals, they don't bother to spend effort cultivating the local pool, they just want to take the easy way out and buy FTs over. Truly deplorable and absolutely destroys the spirit of sportsmanship.

They will cheapen the country to make their own face look good. Bloody fuckers!

Precisely. I rather our boxers get silver medals than the ping pong golds.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Hope MINDEF allow Zheng Wen to defer his NS like Schooling. Lots of potential. Dont let NS destroy it.

 

[zhihau]

but to reach gold standard, they need to pay for a pro coach to bring them up to standard.

The tuition for swimming inside a classroom is no joke ok?

 

[yellowarse]

swimming is not really expensive and not a rich man's sport. it is the professional training that costs a lot.

You are wrong.

It's not just the coaching. Public pools can never give you the kind of dedicated lane access that all top young swimmers need many hours a day. I came from a school with a swimming pool (only one of two in S'pore those days), so I know. Our school swimmers trained twice a day every day, before and after school. Lane markers reserved at least 2 to 3 lanes for the swimmers; the water polo players trained in the remaining space. The more well-off ones trained during the weekends at their own private clubs.

Most top swimmers train from very young – swimming clubs for pre-schoolers, continuing their training in primary school pools, then on to secondary school and JC.

Take a look around you. How many schools in Singapore have swimming pools? How many primary schools have swimming pools? Who are the students that get into these schools? Who are the students whose parents can afford membership to Chinese Swimming Club or Singapore Swimming Club? Any wonder why one school produces most of the top swimmers in Singapore?

 

[yellowarse]

swimming is not really expensive and not a rich man's sport. it is the professional training that costs a lot.

You are wrong.

It's not just the coaching. Public pools can never give you the kind of dedicated lane access that all top young swimmers need many hours a day. I came from a school with a swimming pool (only one of two in S'pore those days), so I know. Our school swimmers trained twice a day every day, before and after school. Lane markers reserved at least 2 to 3 lanes for the swimmers; the water polo players trained in the remaining space. The more well-off ones trained during the weekends at their own private clubs.

Most top swimmers train from very young – swimming clubs for pre-schoolers, continuing their training in primary school pools, then on to secondary school and JC.

Take a look around you. How many schools in Singapore have swimming pools? How many primary schools have swimming pools? Who are the students that get into these schools? Who are the students whose parents can afford membership to Chinese Swimming Club or Singapore Swimming Club? Any wonder why one school produces most of the top swimmers in Singapore?