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Forbes Carlile (3 June 1921 – 2 August 2016): A Personal Tribute From Shane Gould
- Updated: August 2, 2016
Forbes Carlile (3 June 1921 – 2 August 2016)
The end of life is so final, I’m so glad I went to see Forbes as often as I did in his later life and see Milt [Nelms] and he engaged in swim talk.
What a man, curmudgeonly, insightful, fervid, and the ultimate swimming geek ! Forbes was the right coach for me, he gave me what I needed, his knowledge, structure, feedback and generalised numerical data. I didn’t need inspirational slogans, bullying, minutae diagnostics.
He gave me challenge, diversity and respected my own intuitive bodily movement. He left me to work out my own legs to swim with, after trying to get me to “kick’ more. I just went slower and slower while trying to “kick’ like others.
He was about business, getting things done and so was I. He didn’t throw work or volume at me, he created variation, challenge, appropriate rest intervals and helped me to find gears to swim 100 to 1500 and do all the other strokes too.
He loved technology and always had the latest film or video technology and playback decks. He was excited about his new stuff and …
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