| There is an image of the coach as some sort of dispenser of information - the man with the secret knowledge who will impart it at a price. Something like an old-fashioned schoolmaster complete with gown, standing in front of a blackboard.
Having been coached at quite a high level in another sport, I know that the relationship is not like that. Before any training, there is a personal relationship - it's almost like a marriage. The coach/athlete relationship has to work on several different levels in order to be successful.
Just because the relationship breaks down, and one coach gets replaced by another, doesn't mean that the first coach was no good. It just means that on at least one of the many levels of relationship, the paths of the coach and the athlewte diverged.
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