Short track. 20.000 fans holding their breath... Silence before take off. Four skaters are ready to give it all. Helmet on, skates sharpened. Years of training both physically and mentally. Who can take the pressure and will make the step to eternal glory? Short track is a beautiful sport. A top sport.

At the edge of the track are four coaches. They have been guiding their skaters for years to prepare them for this moment. Everything should come together for this ultimate moment. Every hour of physical and mental training, every hour on the bench of the physiotherapist, every component has to lead to an excellent performance during the coming minutes. When the starting gun goes off, the crowd explodes. Coaches shout hints to their athletes. Does my athlete hear me? Yes! He is in the flow. When we hear the bell for the last round, they are close together. And then the speaker announces my ice skater has won. His hands are already high in the sky. Mine follow.

This is the short track race of my dreams; once as a skater myself, and now as a coach. This is what I visualize. And it isn’t always easy. Everybody around the athlete has to work together. It is like making music with a team of athletes and experts to excel. A false note is not alowed. As a short tracker I worked with several coaches. Each coach tried to help me to reach eternal glory, but not every coach was able to make music with his athletes. Now I am a coach myself. How can we help athletes to realize their dream? How can we make music together? ...

Music has to be composed. To learn to make compositions, I went to the Johan Cruyff Institute to study the Master in Coaching (MIC). I am a coach myself based in the area of South Holland. Following the master we have begun to bring together the orchestra to start composing. We are high on ambitions and low on budgets.

Will one of our ice skaters ever make it? We are not a 100% sure of course. But it all starts with commitment. And we are commited! Unknown names might be well known within a few years. On our way to perfection (and false notes still can’t be excluded), but the sweet sound of my composition goes already through my head. It is only a matter of time. Give me a few years, and you will hear the song as well.