Making wild animals chase your children to run/swim faster

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/1335730/Q-How-do-you-train-a-young-Australian-to-swim-faster-A-Put-a-crocodile-in-the-pool.html

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c5_1189338094

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9810/09/fringe/australia.crocs/

1/2 a decade ago I read about this story and I've always wondered if the training methods really works, to let a wild animal chase children so they could swim/run faster and maybe someday be the best in the world.Theorically I think that the endorphins and adrenaline from the thought of dying if you don't perform your best could possibly enhance performance.

has anyone researched this kind of training method or participate/witness 1 themself?

I don't think this is revolutionary.

I'd FEAR a hungry, take-no-prisoners, "burned with every mistake that he'll never again repeat" chess player WAY more than an equally rated player who is better booked up but doesn't have any fire in his belly.

The story does reminds me of a Stephen King short story called Quitters Inc. where a man pays a mob-like organization to help him quit smoking ... they monitor him silently, operatives following him around each day and if he dares to smoke, they send goons to hurt his little kid or electrocute his wife.

 That's motivational :)

if someone is scared enough they can die of shock. this can happen if somebody has a lot of cramps and can't swim, suddenly they can't swim away. They see the crododile and get really scared.

I am nearly sure that in denmark the teacher would be expelled for this method.

I've only heard of that happening to old people, the australian coach was training children with this method to push them to the max but I guess it's quite possible something goes wrong and the fat kid loses some body parts (lol)

I think the risk might be worth it if the training method does dramatically improve the children's performance but there doesn't seem to be a detailed research on this

Lmao then w h y did you bump it, that's 12 yrs ago created thread?

So why bumping such old threads? Your just spending lol some search time on old threads to bump, lmao yet to be lol Sunday, as woolly would say, naughty lol boy, woolly going to post you needing obviously some claws. 🤣