How much of the accomplishments of high level cross-vik games athletes can be attributed to the coach and how much of it is virtuosity on the part of the athlete.

I don't know. I have no one knows. That's like, I don't know.

You don't have a percentage for us.

So I guess maybe the question is, do coaches have a major influence in the performance of athletes?

Yeah, sure. It depends on the coach and depends on the athlete.

If you have a really knowledgeable, really good coach with a really humble, really coachable athlete, of course.

But it's not the sport across it's specific. It's not even athletics.

It's like any coach, it's only meant to our mentee relationship.

And then the opposite is also true. If you have a crappy coach and a person that things they already figured out,

that's not going to move the needle probably at all.

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