A great coach is hard to find and impossible to forget
If there was an attention deficit disorder in sports, I think I could serve as a prime example. Growing up, nobody in my family understood or encouraged sports, and in actuality, my parents put an effort to limit any kind of physical activity over mental pursuits. But because my heart was always in for the physical challenges and not the mental ones, from the moment I broke loose from home at the age of 19, I have been jumping around the elite sports arena for more than two decades. Spanning different sports in different countries and going through a variety of clubs and coaching systems, I have learned that evidently, there is no right or wrong method when it comes to ways of improving human performance in any sport. A lot comes into the athlete's physicality and mentality as a whole, and some scientific knowledge plays a role but the majority of success boils down to the coach's quality and skillset that can bring it all together. Generally speaking, it's easy to find one...