It is always interesting at this time of the year at the start of spring training and with the NFL combine to read the stories of how people have changed their technique. I have been following the Tim Tebow story with great interest. Apparently he has a team of “experts’ who have completely revamped his throwing style. He is not going to unveil his new technique at the NFL CONbine, but will wa [...]

I am reading Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin (Really thought provoking so far), he got me thinking of how hard people work at being average. It caused me to reflect on people and situations I have seen throughout my career. He is absolutely correct; people that are average, into job preservation really do work at it. They avoid risk and conflict for fear that someone will notice them. They talk m [...]

When I picked up the paper and saw that the New York Yankees has won their 27th championship all I could think of was sustained excellence. Literally since I was an athlete in high school and vaguely entertaining the thought of coaching sustained excellence has been a fascination for me. There was a school in our league, Santa Clara High School, that year in year out was dominant in football and b [...]

Preseason, two or three times a day practice is almost here in American football, collegiate soccer and volleyball. Each of the past three years at close to the same I have posted on this. In my 40 years of coaching and my additional four years of enduring six years of two and sometimes three a day practices as a football player I am convinced that this is where more championship are lost than won [...]

Yesterday the NY Times had the following article on the front page tiltled “Increasing Pace of Injuries.” I am formulating a detailed reply with specific ideas, recommendations and further questions for consideration. I will state though that this problem is bigger than baseball. The injury rate in most major professional sports needs to be addressed; it is more than a baseball problem. [...]

The following piece from yesterday's NY Times sports page made me decide to write this. Someone needs to set the record straight. The former Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson, who for 20 years has pioneered biomechanic analysis of pitching motions, said that he shielded athletes from the physics behind what they do. You can’t build a car and drive one at the same time,” Peterson said. “When [...]

I went to the Mets and Redsox game last week and had the chance to see a client of our Elite Athlete Network in action. It was great to see the effects of world class therapy and body alignment work in action. Still, baseball is in a strange transition as the sport is being hit by a lot of doping issues. The BALCO fallout is going to be a blessing in disguise if athletes decide to be progressive i [...]

Before I moved to the South (Yes Florida is the south) I was told there were three sports played there: 1) football 2) spring football 3) off season football. I didn’t believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. When I started helping coach track at my daughter’s high school I asked why the State Track Meet was the first week of May – the sincere and honest answer was so that [...]

A mantra that I have lived by throughout my coaching career is that you are what you train to be. If you train to be slow then you will be slow, if you train to be fast you will be fast. This seems obvious doesn’t it? Then why do we persist in looking for secret and magic training methods that are essentially one way dead end streets. When you get to the dead end now where do you go? There [...]

This article from the NY Times is almost too good to be true. I was almost in tears reading this. I am a sucker for the underdog and the unknown, but this tops them all. I am know who I am rooting for. It’s almost like this guy is the anti A Rod or Lance Armstrong. Here's an excerpt:Those who have heard the tale of Svein Tuft have wondered, could it possibly be true?How he dropped out of s [...]