6TheMagic

Science can only take us so far. It has never and can never make that final leap.

It is the immeasurable factors, that, are the key and have proven to be the biggest aid to sports people.

You can buy the same paints and same brushes as Turner had. You can learn the same techniques. But, what makes Turner great is his magic, not the art lessons or the equipment.

This is what is missing in most coaches and teachers: insight, perspective and the minutiae of the variables.

A good coach or teacher, can see the athlete or pupil, and no amount of lab tests can be greater information than what a good coach or teacher sees.

Science, yes, but, magic is more effective than any science in improving performance. Lab tests are pretty irrelevant. The ‘good’ results don’t determine or make a great athlete, and the ‘bad’ results don’t either.

Coaching and teaching is easy - any idiot can do it, albeit badly.

Vorsprung is the magic, that, everyone else ignores.

There are far more aspects involved to make improvements. Vorsprung puts more into coaching and teaching. It is teaching, guiding, supporting, counselling, nurturing, advising, safe-guiding, protecting. It is not the method, that, makes the difference: it is the magic element. It is not the ‘efforts’ on the track, or the time in the gym, or the pounding the roads: it is the intricate details (the ‘weird stuff’), that, makes Vorsprung the magic element in coaching and teaching.

If form is the movement, that, happens when you are not in contact with the floor: then, Vorsprung is the space between those movements.

6. The Magic