Synchro Training Skill 5 - Supporting Others
Synchro is competitive. You need drive, determination, and resilience to succeed.
However, even with the skills you may have as an individual, you can't do it alone. One of the fundamental skills to training and the sport itself is supporting others.
The obvious training sessions for this are during routine and choreography training, where you move as one through the water and rely on the support of those around you to make your routine work.
Another moment during synchro that supporting others is important is when your club is competing. Hearing the rest of your club cheering you on from the gallery reminds you that you've got a whole load of people behind you.
But the moment when a team truly needs to be there for one another is when there's challenge, disappointment or failure. When your team mate doesn't make the squad, when they don't get something right, when they are struggling with a figure or their land training and no matter how hard they work, it just isn't going well. When they are the one who doesn't pass their grade, or they are injured and left watching everyone else from poolside.
That's when you need to support others. To show that no matter what happens in the water, you're still a team and part of the club.
