This is an excellent article giving matter of fact advise to parents of athletes. Hope you enjoy and heed the insights this person provides.

” I’ve spent the past three weekends at the pool for four different kids. If you’ve been to a swim meet, you know they can be torture. When they get to the higher levels, they are three to five days long and if you have kids in more than one age group, you could be spending up to 12 hours at the pool. It’s taken me a LONG time to be able to put all this in perspective and gain some valuable insight. I’ve observed so many good and bad things, and there are certain things you just shouldn’t do:

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But as for inline speed, you can take accredited ISA coaching classes. The Level 1 classes are generic. But Level 2 is speed specific and provides excellent preparation for speed coaches. The course was developed by the Begg family (Cheryl, Wayne, Nicole and me). It includes written material with illustrations on the theory of inline speed skating and practical demonstrations. with illustrations and explanations on the theory side and practical demonstrations.

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Ryan Shimabukuro is molding some of sport’s biggest names, and he’s also one of Hawaii’s heroes.

It was all laughs when Stephen Colbert interviewed him on “The Colbert Report” last year, but R

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yan Shimabukuro wasn’t joking.

How else does a kid from Kalihi end up at the Vancouver games? The youngest of four children Ryan fell in love with ice skating when he saw Eric Heiden win five individual gold medals in the 1980 Olympics.

“All I know is he was skating fast. I know he was wearing the gold suit and racing really fast. I thought it looked really cool, no pun intended” said Shimabukuro.

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Coaches: Prior to submitting your vote and feedback, please review GR21.00 (the entire rule can be viewed in the 2012 General Rules Book: “General Rules for Competitive Roller Sports.”).

The Speed Sport Committee is going to submit a request to the Board that they waive the requirement for program changes. In that request, the committee is going to ask the Board to consider approving the requested program changes at the fall Board meeting instead of the spring Board meeting. The reason that the committee is requesting this waiver is so that the division changes can be implemented for the 2013 season (instead of 2014).

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Olympic bronze medalist Lana Gehring, U.S. teammate Jessica Smith and seven other speedskaters signed a statement Tuesday claiming abuse allegations against their coach are “baseless” and a “false attack on his character.”

Gehring and Smith said they don’t believe allegations leveled against short track coach Jae Su Chun or assistant Jun Hyung Yeo. The charges were leveled recently by more than a dozen other athletes in complaints to the U.S. Olympic Committee and U.S. Speedskating.

“We have never seen any abuse take place — physical, sexual, verbal or emotional — and we know these men are not capable of abuse,” the statement reads.

The statement was emailed to select media outlets. It also is signed by U.S. Short Track National Racing Program skaters Kimberly Derrick, John-Henry Krueger, Tamara Frederick, Cole Krueger, Eduardo Alvarez, Chris Creveling and Keith Carroll Jr. Derrick and Gehring both won bronze medals at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Olympic bronze medalist Lana Gehring, U.S. teammate Jessica Smith and seven other speedskaters signed a statement Tuesday claiming abuse allegations against their coach are “baseless” and a “false attack on his character.”

Gehring and Smith said they don’t believe allegations leveled against short track coach Jae Su Chun or assistant Jun Hyung Yeo. The charges were leveled recently by more than a dozen other athletes in complaints to the U.S. Olympic Committee and U.S. Speedskating.

“We have never seen any abuse take place — physical, sexual, verbal or emotional — and we know these men are not capable of abuse,” the statement reads.

Continue reading: 2 top speedskaters back coach accused of abuse

‘Short-track speed skating coach Jae Su Chun, shown at a 2008 practice at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah’, photo from Jeffrey D. Allred for USA TODAY, caption from here