I have watched and followed the part of swimming competition on TV recently. There were two Hong Kong swimmers that I admire including SZE Hang Yue 施幸余 and Siobhan Bernadette Haughey 何詩蓓. Both of them have succeed in a very young age. They broke a lot of the Hong Kong's record in swimming events when they were primary students. All of the success people pay a lot, but it is harsh to handle their swimming career and studies. Diocesan Girls' School 拔萃女書院 has the best girls swimming school team which won the group championship in Hong Kong for over ten years. One of my friends who studied in DGS told me that students who school's team members would train in the morning before 8AM and train for another session after school. However, those training sessions do not include their classes within swimming clubs, which means that they have extra training in the night instead of only train inside the school.
Youth Success?!
I admire all the young elite swimmers when they spend their whole school life to success. But this is also what I worry about. In fact, Hong Kong team does not have good performance in most of the international swimming competitions. Although they can perform well and win the game in some international youth games, such as Youth Olympic Games. It is sad to say that "just youth games". This reflects an extreme status of swimming development in Hong Kong. When they are always better than the same-aged swimmers of other countries, they are always worse than others in Olympic Games. Hong Kong's swimming development is happened at a younger age. People learn swimming at baby stage, train swimming at child stage, and success at youth stage. On the other side, American swimmers start their training from youth age. And that's why Michael Phelps or other swimmers can have good performance for several years. It's because they train in the right position as they train after the growth age of a human. Therefore, they will have better body composition to train for the best performance.
It is upset to look at this situation in Hong Kong. At the same time, we should think of the reasons. Maybe the mentality of quick a step than others???
Youth Success?!
I admire all the young elite swimmers when they spend their whole school life to success. But this is also what I worry about. In fact, Hong Kong team does not have good performance in most of the international swimming competitions. Although they can perform well and win the game in some international youth games, such as Youth Olympic Games. It is sad to say that "just youth games". This reflects an extreme status of swimming development in Hong Kong. When they are always better than the same-aged swimmers of other countries, they are always worse than others in Olympic Games. Hong Kong's swimming development is happened at a younger age. People learn swimming at baby stage, train swimming at child stage, and success at youth stage. On the other side, American swimmers start their training from youth age. And that's why Michael Phelps or other swimmers can have good performance for several years. It's because they train in the right position as they train after the growth age of a human. Therefore, they will have better body composition to train for the best performance.
It is upset to look at this situation in Hong Kong. At the same time, we should think of the reasons. Maybe the mentality of quick a step than others???