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Video Recording |
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Bruce Kidd Interview 2009 |
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Bruce Kidd interview, 13 March 2009. Digitized MP4 from Sony 40 Advanced ME DVCAM. Two videos with a total viewing time of 00:52:08. 1 of 2; 01:00Life lesson: learned to enjoy working hard, learned to plan work and performance, indirect benefit in health and well being, teaches you great lessons about what you can and can't do, wins are great but losses teach you a lot, learn to deal with failure in sport and life 03:31Skills learned: try to learn and draw lessons from losses, transfer lessons into life, picking yourself up and going on, sport is full of rewards and disappointment and part of ongoing cycle that prepares you for life; to do really well and if you don't do well bounce back, figure out how to do it better and go again; motivator for life, sport is lived lessons, learn it's never over till it's over and if take that attitude in life have far more wins, teaches you the joy s of going hard all the time regardless of the outcome and that's what life should be about 08:51What is success: stages or levels of success, immediate goal (win the race) or intermediate goal (made a personal best) or long term goal that are more complex such as wanting to represent your country (requires a series of races) or attain another level of performance; want to learn about the world and yourself; he learned through travel to make the most of his time and expand his horizons, learned about Canada's place in the world and sport was a broad avenue for that education; one of his goals was to see the world, talks about Toronto in the 1950's, learned about multi-culturalism through sport, in his career one of the things associated with success was learning more about the world and other people 12:24What is a winner: somebody who does as well as he or she can overall, who trains and competes with an ethic, fair play to others, recognition that your competitors are your co-participants, talks about his friendships with his past competitors and being accepted by the community of his peers; mot only competing well but winning the respect of your peers; making the transition from the life of sport to the life outside of sport so you can apply the lessons to life 15:48Role model: an exemplar, somebody who has gone to places you have gone to or want to go to, who has encountered some of the challenges you have encountered or would like to take on, who done those well, achieved and one so with dignity and with the respect of others, does not have to be only great athletes; set examples of ethical trying, ethical caring and contributing, that inspire, reassure and teach direction; sport provided many good and many ugly role models, encourage people to look to sport for role models but others as well and to consider becoming role models themselves 17:53Introduction to Hall 19:02On his running career - innate ability and practise but biggest factor of success comes with opportunity: grew up in a sports community, parents loved Olympic sport, had great coach experimenting with middle & long distance runners to reach the top and he was the guinea pig, met him at age 15, his own growth developments matched the experiments and he got stronger, few other young runners in the world training in same way, at the leading edge of the curve, had energy, determination and imagination 21:02Belief system at that time: had a love of running and sport, inspired to run at the world level, coached by his parents and coach who said he could beat runners from around the world, heady ambitions, just ran with it, became associated with travel, student of current events, had interest in the world and track & field was his entry into the world, everything was interconnected for him; his father was the entire CBC crew at the 1952 Olympics, he taped the competitions with a movie camera, inspired Bruce at age 9 with athleticism and spirit of Olympism so that he wanted to be an Olympian at that point, in 1954 saw the Miracle Mile live on TV, talks about the race and how it excited him, connected his ambition with the Olympics to the ambition to run harder over longer distances, just went out and ran and developed from there 25:54How did you find your distance: at that time teens were not allowed to run long distances, his journey was punctuated with officials over the distances he could run, the coach felt his ability was for the longer distances but teens were not allowed to run over 880, had to put pressure on meet directors in order to get to compete, always had a fight, proved them wrong 28:08On winning the Lou Marsh award as the Outstanding Canadian Athlete in 1961: had a great year, moving more into international milieu against more successful runners, moving up to level of being very successful when Canadians in other sports were not doing so well, honoured but at the time did not mean so much to him, as an historian now appreciates it and feels honoured 29:23Best year was in 1962, had some terrific races, won Commonwealth Games medals, set Junior Canadian track record for the 5000m that still stands today, one of the oldest records in the books 30:41Race with Murray Halberg in 1962: Halberg had been one of his heroes, one of the inspirational runners and defending Olympic champion, modelled himself on him, Halberg won his races by long kicks, talks about the method, on the race and how he decided to beat him by starting his kick early, was a great race, talks about the strategy of the race 33:30On other races: talks about other competitors, how he tried to fall into the cadence of Lasko to improve his style of running and to mix that with bursts of speed 36:08On being reserved: when young that was the expected leadership role of amateur athletes in those days, his heroes were runners like Bannister and Lazlo who were soft spoken, proud and not flamboyant about their personalities, expected to acquire roles that were fitting for a place in society (i.e. lawyer), no show boating as today's athletes have to present themselves for commercial success, under amateurism then that wasn't possible 37:56On his track and field era: meets every weekend, Bill Crothers and he ran 10 indoor meets and 10-12 major outdoor meets a year; they were headliners 39:12On his running style: efficient leg action, his upper body was awkward, had a nervous twitch with his right hand that people tried to emulate 40:18Favourite race: against Halberg, had great duels with him; the 6 miles at the Commonwealth Games in 1962 which was a survival contest in hot weather and a tactical battle with an Australian, talks about the race 2 of 2; 00:21On the Boston race in 1961: talks about the race, others thought he was too young to run this distance (2 miles), something he thought he could do and did, came within seconds of the world record 02:24Had not run a major event outside of Canada or against major international competitors at that time; was his baptism, convinced himself and others he could do it 02:56On the US Nationals: anticlimactic, at the end of a tremendous season, talks about the race, consistent with his training and other races, the idea of youthful or teenage runners began with him 05:09On the 10,000m race: talks about the race 07:10How he influenced changes in the rules: pioneer in teenage distance running and on the form of training, through his performances and publicity became an example of what teenagers could do, at a time when teens were becoming more active in sport, more and more effort to engage youth in sport, became an exemplar 09:44On being inducted into the Hall: very proud |
Date |
2009/03/13 |
People |
Kidd, Bruce Crothers, Bill |
Search Terms |
Bruce Kidd Athletics Distance running interview 1962 Commonwealth Games 1964 Olympic Games Tokyo |