Helga Schuhmann is a swimming instructor and head of Department of the Post SV Weilheim. Several generations it has trained. Recently, she has become 80 years old, but at the end of their time at the edge of the basin is not yet in sight.
Weilheim –kids jumping from the edge of the pool, two girls to hold the nose and jump together into the cold water. The Brave dare to jump of the tower and show all the jumps. Suddenly, a shrill whistle sounds. Everything is silent, and immediately order. The swim training begins under the direction of Helga Schuhmann.
“The pool is my second home. I’ll open the door, and everything stays outside,“ says Schuhmann. She is a swimming instructor and head of Department of the Post SV Weilheim. These are her official titles, but there is much more. The swimmers will appreciate the atmosphere, which has a built in Shoe man at the Post SV. “We are like a big family here,” she says.
she was Born in Halle on the Saale. She spent a few years with her grandma in the GDR, before they came up with almost eleven years of upper Bavaria. “In the beginning, I understood no one here,” she says. Swim has learned in their new home – in a gravel pit.
especially their four children were crazy water, tells the 80-Year-old. The family Shoe man spent a lot of time on Dietl Hofer lake. Later, several families banded together and left for Dießen, where they moved in the swimming pool of the Augustinums their tracks. While the adults swam, the kids just on the edge of the pool. Shoe man took the Betvole Little and made games with them – the beginning of a now 50-year coaching career.
After that, everything went very quickly. Shoe man made a practice head training in sports. The swimming Department of the Post SV was founded, and in 1972 opened the indoor pool in the County town. “I didn’t want to dance at many weddings at the same time,” says Schuhmann their focus on the Swim. Although you have stated it from the Swim “no idea”. “In the beginning, I have had books from the GDR chic”, tells the Huglfingerin. Today, you will stay through training and courses on the current state of the training. The young swimmer is not trained on you, the children of the boomers in 2007/08. Meanwhile, several generations went by, the school, Shoe merchant, has completed a commercial training. Children of former students are today a team of trainers.
recently, the Shoe man was 80 years old. As a gift, it gave her students a great Collage in a gilded picture frames with images from different decades. Including from your time as a swimming instructor at a high school. Around glued the heart and the participating children, adolescents and mothers had signed. “I didn’t expect it,” she says. It was one of those moments, where you get back more than you have given to the children. “When I see the children to practice something again and again and finally a beam in the face, if it works then, is the Year old enough reward for all the time invested,” says the 80 -.
on Mondays and Wednesdays she is in Training for around three hours on the edge of the pool. Many hours of preparation she has already. “A whole life among young people,” be a fountain, and is also young, she says. But there is more than Swimming: To turn Off playing the Shoe man basketball. “I’ll do it for me,” she says.
About their parting, she thought and calmed down, a team of expert trainers. “To me it’s fun,” says Schuhmann. It is only when the children begin to ask: What wants to Olle?’ it’s over.“ But this is still not an issue.
Phillip Plesch
