The marketing on how to teach coaches triathlon
training is just that, marketing. The
subject of teaching is related to the environment; it is not the same to teach
in Afghanistan than in Norway. To know
the circumstances implies to know the level of understanding of the culture and
education of the people receiving the training.
Like other advisers, Fontana, who served in a combat unit in the
southern Afghan provinces of Zabul and Kandahar in 2011-12 as well as in Iraq,
speaks admiringly of the fighting spirit of Afghan soldiers.
But he said the army is dogged by persistent problems with
supplies, maintaining equipment and making sure units get proper support,
issues which for years have been an obstacle to creating Afghan forces capable
of standing on their own.
“They’re not scared of much, they will fight back fine, they’re
good shots. Some of their soldiers are pretty crack,” Fontana told Reuters.
“But it comes down to logistics and mission command.”
When dealing with this kind of education we
have to know that teaching the basics is the only thing to do to improve
training; it comes down to teaching logistics and mission command. Logistics and mission command are not
subjects to teach easily and they are not appealing for the ones receiving training;
they are not marketable or paid for.
Unfortunately, these two subjects are necessary to be taught if we are
on the task of creating champions in these cultures and countries.
We have another rude example of lack of
knowledge regarding the circumstances surrounding a specific population:
The quotation, first attributed to Marie
Antoinette in 1843, was claimed to have been uttered during one of the famines
that occurred in France during the reign of her husband, Louis XVI. Upon being told
that the people were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, the Queen is
said to have replied, "Then let them eat brioche."[4] Although this
anecdote was never cited by opponents of the monarchy at the time of the French Revolution, it did acquire
great symbolic importance in subsequent histories, when pro-revolutionary
historians sought to demonstrate the obliviousness and selfishness of the
French upper classes at that time.
As one biographer of the Queen notes, it was a particularly useful phrase to
cite because "the staple food of the French peasantry and the working
class was bread, absorbing 50 percent of their income, as opposed to 5 percent
on fuel; the whole topic of bread was therefore the result of obsessional
national interest."[5]
Our athletes become outliers because they receive this
basic education at early age, and even with this knowledge and actions we have
a high degree of failures.
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