by Lester Mekan Baha, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on September 3, 2012, Monday

KOTAS SWIMMERS: Kotass coach Jeffery Ho (right) poses with, from left Angela Chieng, Annie Chieng and Welson Sim.

KUCHING: Kota Samarahan Amateur Swimming Association (Kotas) swimmers have expressed their desire to train under Kuching Amateur Swimming Association (Kasa) swimming coach.

Kotas swimmers Angela Chieng, Annie Chieng and Welson Sim who collected a total of five gold, three silver and four bronze medals during the last Sukma in Pahang have intended to train with their former coach Ren Xiao Shun who is currently coaching Kasas swimmers.

The assistant coach from Kotas Jeffery Ho said that the former coach, Ren had greatly improved their swimmers basic swimming styles.

As soon as he was assigned to Kotas he quickly required all the swimmers to revert practicing the basic styles of swimming, whose actions initially drew some complain from the swimmers parents as time wasting because they have gone through the sessions earlier in training, Jeffery commented to The Borneo Post yesterday.

Jeffery recalled that Kotas swimmers were required to practice the backstroke basic techniques-floating on their back and keeping horizontal as they propelled their body through the water.

And the former coach will continues to take days to practice the butterfly stroke, by introducing the dolphin-style kick, the breaststroke uses a frog-style kick and the sidestroke which holds importance for swimmers because you can use it to rescue someone, since it only requires one arm, he informed.

In another development Jeffery revealed that at the moment they are 28 young swimmers under Kotas Elite Development Programme with the newly MSNS appointed Chinese coach Li Guo Bing.

And in the programme he added, Kotas always adopt coaching strategies of balancing coaching to win and coaching for learning as a developmental issue for their young swimmers.

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