JasoninHalifax wrote:
Fishbum wrote:
Have you watched his video were he is breaking down Lionel's swim....Is he really the person to be doing this???? Is this what people trust on utube?
Yeah, I saw that.
I'm prefacing this by saying that overall, I like Taren's channel, even if I don't care about all of the content he generates. I'll pick and choose what I want to watch (anything that has to do with "here's the morning shake you should drink" or the like I'll skip past, but a lot of his content I do like. I enjoyed his stuff from 70.3 worlds, for example.
That said, he is really not the guy to be giving swim analysis. He knows some, but unfortunately he knows enough to be dangerous. He doesn't know what he doesn't know.
And that in a nutshell is coaching in this sport.
As for the content he definitely doesn't aim to please everyone in every single video. But he goes with Casey Niestats model of producing something every single day. Not easy task to do 365 days a year, so he will definitely "fetch" some topics much to many of our dismay.
I go back and forth on him a lot. But with a sport that isn't really growing and doesn't really have any exposure, having triathlete that produces video content every single day is an opportunity to get more involved, grow the sport, etc.
I think it comes up to the viewer to use discretion on what to take and pass on. Unfortunately, Taren does not do a great job (IMO) of positioning himself as who he is. He should be blunt that he is NOT a coach or has experience coaching athletes 1-1 face-to-face.