There is no more results oriented person than me. However, as I stated several weeks ago, when I judge a system of athletic performance my criteria is to look at what someone does with what they have. If you have a bunch of sprinters who have 11.00 ability and eventually you get them to run consistently 11.00 then you have succeeded. The following comment regarding Frans Bosch struck a tender ner [...]

I presented a workshop for team sport coaches in the afternoon. I was interesting. There were several vocal differences of opinion from my point of view. I think it stimulated some good discussion and solidified some people’s thoughts. The dissenter’s opinion was that you did not do anything outside of practicing and playing the game. The felt you could get as strong, fast, explosive a [...]

Yesterday when I mentioned Steve Odgers in the blog, several people wanted to know what Steve is doing now. He works for Scott Boras, the baseball agent. Steve is Director of Boras sports training, in that capacity he works with their clients. He is now working with some of the biggest names in the game. I thought some of you might be interested in how Steve and I became associated. I first met St [...]

I have received some questions about SPARQ and my involvement. SPARQ is an acronym for speed, agility, reaction and quickness. It a company based on Portland< Oregon. It is directed at young athletes primarily high school age. Last when I got involved they were developing SPARQ Rating for various sports. The purpose was to give the kids an SAT of Athleticism. It is a neat concept because each e [...]

A Correction from Yesterday:The tunnel to the stairs the athletes walk out of is not very long, just fromcall room in the stadium. However there is a 1500 meter tunnel, lined withthree lanes of Mondo and sand pits and all, that goes from the warm up track tothe stadium. Quote of the Day: “I was hoping to have a bottle of vodka to warm me up” from runner up Kotovaregarding the weather d [...]

Quote of the day: "Hey where did you get that sweatshirt?" Bob Larsen,coach of Nike sponsored athlete and silver medalist Meb to me. I had onthe plainest of navy blue sweatshirts with a small swoosh on it, whichI've had for years. He said he keeps asking Nike for one, but theynever send him just a plain sweatshirt.Athlete of the Day:Shaka Sola of Guam. I turned on Eurosport yesterday morning to [...]

Bryan Clay throwing the DiscusI was looking over the results from the USA NationalChampionships again and of all the great performances one of the mostamazing is perhaps also the most easily overlooked. Bryan Clay, OlympicSilver Medalist in the 2004 Decathlon set a world record in thedecathlon discus. The decathlon discus you say? Who cares about that?Well consider for a moment the magnitude of Cl [...]

Sacramento, CA- Well we’ve been here for half a week now andcompetition started tonight. While some would say that it was “only”prelims and qualifying rounds tonight, they obviously fail to see thatif you don’t get through the prelims and qualifying rounds THERE ARE NOfinals. Well, for the most part all went well. Except for one person,everyone who was supposed to advance d [...]