The beginning is a very delicate time.
Karl started swimming when he was 6, but we had no luck finding a proper pool. Naïveté of his parents almost discouraged him from swimming as it turned out that municipal swimming pools in Madrid did not teach proper technique. Someone mentioned that if you want to get quality, you need to go private and pay. We tried M-86, but they didn’t like what they saw and we went to Real Canoe where he started the worst of the group and finished the first and got invitation to the team. Currently Karl is catching up to his potential while balancing with other important things in life: friends, school, football, chess, fencing and video games. The philosophy is to balance and cross train focusing on the technique and modern training approach drawing from the soviet training school.