How it all started

I was lucky enough to be born in a family dedicated to this sport, a Dynasty in the swimming world, my grandfather, Gaston Thoret, was a French Ecuadorian champion who had been the first official swimming coach in Ecuador in the 1950s.

Being a coach was something I started to like and feel totally comfortable with, was January 2004 when a friend asked me to work with him, in Lima, Peru.

I was hired as coordinator. I was put in charge of the technical part of the education, and reviewed the pedagogy that teachers applied. This was a place of trial for me, where I decided to be a full time coach.

I was the head coach in the province of “Los Rios”, for the city of Babahoyo, with its rural community and climate. In the two years I worked with them we accomplished great things.

The team I was in charge of began to win, a deed that only discipline and the proper psychology bestows, and something that they had never accomplished until that year 2010.

I am currently working as Swimming Coach for the Masters team in the “Simmis Club” and have had great satisfaction watching them get better technically and aerobically.

My services include “coaching, teaching and technical development”, and my aspirations include having a large stock of swimmers who will be technically efficient, as to reach the higher spheres of the sport, teaching this was always the goal of my forefathers, to always become better at what you do… and it is mine also.