COACHING QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1934, Page 20

COACHING QUESTION

The suggestion has boon 'made that if £100 were taken from the overseas fund of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic1 Association and devoted to the establishment of the moving pic hue for coaching purposes it would provide t.lie best value that athletes in (ho DominioTi could possibly get. for thoir money. It in of 'interest to note that, among the features of the training .school, opening at Waltaki Hoys' Jlifih School on Janufiiy.l. will he the exhibition flf slow-motion ni«-t iiros of rumous Hlhlfiles in action. There are lilins of the Olympic finals in the di«seii<s, hniumer llirowing, hop, step, and jump, and long jump. There- will nlho be f-oiiie films of outstanding championship and intprnationnl'Cvents, which should be of absorbing interest to all interested in the track and field activities. The film?, taken in slow motion, should be, of definite practicar value to students of style, as it is possible to watch every detail-of the action in a manner which, would be-iim-.possible by merely seeing the man himself in nctioii under ordinary : conditions.

When he was in ,Aucklnml recently on his way to Australia, Eddie, Tolan, former world's amateur sprint champion, was sounded on the subject of coaching', and he said he would seriously consider an offer to coach in the Dominion after his races in Melbourne.