A (dated) British documentary from Russia is critical of severe coaching and corporal punishment of young children.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
It’s the same dilemma I faced after watching video of severe training in China. How much can we criticize other cultures who do not meet our own standards?
Do we have a right to decry coaches in Russia doing things unethical or illegal in our own countries?
Perhaps we do.
Coaches hitting kids is wrong. Wrong where I live. Wrong in Russia.
It’s up to the coaching community of the world to contest training practices that are unethical.
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