Cate Campbell: "Doing all the little things right is often what gets you closest to perfection." Source: Jamie Hanson / News Limited
WORLD champion Cate Campbell is continually striving for swimming perfection and while that may prove a never-ending pursuit, on Friday she hopes to at least move closer to that target.
Campbell will spearhead Australia's team for the Aquatic Super Series meet against China, Japan, South Africa and Brazil in Perth starting Friday and as it is her last race before the Commonwealth Games trials in Brisbane in April she is making it a full throttle hit out.
For the 100m freestyle champion that means trying to better her personal best time of 52.33 seconds and edge a little bit closer to the elusive supersuit world record of 52.07s set by Germany's Britta Steffen.
"(My coach Simon Cusack) operates on the philosophy that if you're going to race you better race fast," Campbell said.
Since winning her world title last July Campbell has turned her attention to the finer details of her race to find the small improvements needed to break the 53 second barrier.
She holds a major advantage over her international rivals, so it really is a matter of finding little gains across the race to keep well ahead of the opposition.
"I'm just continuing to focus on my skills, try to bring my starts and turn up to a world standard because they're quite abysmal," she said.
"A couple of tenths of a second (improvement) would be really nice.
"I guess it's hard because you can't always do a good start. It's kind of like a tennis serve. If a tennis player could serve an ace every time they would.
"If swimmers could do a good start every time they would, it comes down to the individual movements but just getting consistently better is what I'm hoping for.
"Everyone is striving for that perfect race, it is the elusive goal that is probably never achieved because nothing in life is ever perfect but you want to get as close as possible.
"Make sure you're doing all the little things right is often what gets you closest to perfection."
The Australian team arrived in Perth yesterday and for the majority it was the first time meeting new head coach Jacco Verhaeren who only arrived in the country from The Netherlands two weeks ago.
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