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This subcollection unedited footage from the documentary Coach. Coach highlights the highly successful career of Maui coach Soichi Sakamoto who trained swimmers such as the infamous Three-Year Swim Club, Bill Smith, Keo Nakama and others who went on and won medals in the Olympics. Such swimmers trained in a sugar cane irrigation ditch.

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Interview with Mrs. Sakamoto

Interview with Mrs. Sakamoto

Interview with Mrs. Sakamoto, wife of Soichi Sakamoto coach of the Three-Year Swim Club. Mrs. Sakamoto was interviewed by Chris Conybeare at her...

Year:
1984
Duration:
00:07:30
Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto tape 3 6/20/84

Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto tape 3 6/20/84

Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto, coach of the Three-Year Swim Club, recorded at his home in McCully on June 20, 1984. Topics include his...

Year:
1984
Duration:
00:13:10
Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto tape 4 6/20/84

Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto tape 4 6/20/84

Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto, coach of the Three-Year Swim Club, recorded at his home in McCully on June 20, 1984. Topics include his...

Year:
1984
Duration:
00:19:15
Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto tape 5 6/20/84

Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto tape 5 6/20/84

Interview with Coach Soichi Sakamoto, coach of the Three-Year Swim Club, recorded at his home in McCully on June 20, 1984. Topics include how the...

Year:
1984
Duration:
00:19:51
Puʻunēnē School transitions 6/84

Puʻunēnē School transitions 6/84

This video contains transitions of Chris Conybeare talking about Coach Soichi Sakamoto in front of Puʻunēnē School recorded in June 1984.

Duration:
00:03:50
Interview with Gaylord Kubota 6/84

Interview with Gaylord Kubota 6/84

Interview with Gaylord Kubota about the history of Puʻunēnē recorded in June 1984. Topics include plantation camps, the role of sports on the...

Duration:
00:18:17
Interview with Hisayuki "Dynamite" Nakasone

Interview with Hisayuki "Dynamite" Nakasone

Interview with Hisayuki "Dynamite" Nakasone a member of Coach Sakamoto's Three-Year Swim Club. Topics include swimming in the ditch, Coach...

Duration:
00:19:48
Interview with Benny Castor tape 1

Interview with Benny Castor tape 1

Interview with Benny Castor. Topics include working in the fields during school breaks as children, travelling with the swim team, swimming meets,...

Duration:
00:10:10
Interview with Bill Smith at Coach Sakamoto's house

Interview with Bill Smith at Coach Sakamoto's house

Interview with Bill Smith recorded outside of Coach Sakamoto's old house on Maui. Topics include living with Coach, the Sakamoto family, Mrs. Mary...

Duration:
00:07:30
B-roll footage of the Annual Coach Sakamoto Invitational Swimming Meet on Maui

B-roll footage of the Annual Coach Sakamoto Invitational Swimming Meet on Maui

This video contains b-roll footage of the Annual Coach Sakamoto Invitational Swimming Meet on Maui.

Duration:
11:44:00
Interview with Benny Castor tape 2

Interview with Benny Castor tape 2

Interview with Benny Castor about Coach Sakamoto's Three-Year Swim Club. Topics include how Coach Sakamoto became a swimming coach, how the club...

Duration:
00:07:24
Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium walk with Katherine "Kay" Napoleon

Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium walk with Katherine "Kay" Napoleon

B-roll footage of the Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium and surrounding beaches. Chris Conybeare also walks around the Natatorium with Katherine...

Duration:
00:06:35
Interview with Tommy Leong

Interview with Tommy Leong

Interview with Tommy Leong recorded at the Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium. Topics include the atmosphere of the Natatorium in the 1930s and 1940s,...

Duration:
00:03:26
National Swimming Championships 1941 and 1945

National Swimming Championships 1941 and 1945

This video contains footage of the 1940, 1941, 1945 Men's National A.A.U. Swimming and Diving Championships and the 1945 Women's National Junior...

Duration:
00:51:06
Keo Nakama and Peter Powlison scrapbooks tape 1

Keo Nakama and Peter Powlison scrapbooks tape 1

Video includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles about Coach Sakamoto's Three-Year Swim Club from the scrapbooks of Keo...

Duration:
00:19:20
Keo Nakama and Peter Powlison scrapbooks tape 2

Keo Nakama and Peter Powlison scrapbooks tape 2

Video includes photographs and newspaper clippings about Coach Sakamoto's Maui Swim Team from the scrapbooks of Keo Nakama and Peter Powlison....

Duration:
00:07:33