I am completely comfortable with not being popular among the fraternity of gurus, as my motives are not fueled by greed or glory. Paul Graham shared in his essays that the FBI decades ago had to change their investigation strategy with computer hackers, since a hacker's motives were not the typical drugs, money, sex, revenge. Curiosity was not on the list. I represent the irritating grain of sa [...]

Each of the last five teams we have played with Venice volleyball have done some version of the so called movement prep. It has been interesting to watch. One team spent 18 minutes on this stuff. All at a walking temp almost at Tai Chi rhythm. Folks that does not prepare you to play a ballistic game like volleyball.Vern's post was again a shout of wisdom to an audience that doesn't have a basic [...]

Due to the large increases of "pleasant" emails and forwarded replies from others to my inbox I will share my thoughts on the current material proposed by Mike Boyle and Gray Cook. Since this is business and I have nothing personally against Mike and Gray I will focus on the information proposed by them in order to keep things fair. Some of Mike's material is fantastic and I suggest being part [...]

The Functional Movement Screen is an assessment that got a lot of heat a few years when Vern and Mike Boyle argued about it's effectiveness. My stance is closer to Vern's as Mike's responses were not very convincing. I was exposed to the FMS years ago when manuals were actually in paper format and experts were older than college graduates. During that time I was reading everything in the office [...]

I am sure to keep my coaching in context and not make you "drink the Kool-Aid" as in marketing /exaggerrating/exploiting my experience. At some point- drawing the line- it clicks in your head (Boyle's done it; Roger's done it; Woicick's done it, e tc.) that after years of working with the best or continually arriving at high level results, coincidence ceases and skills are th [...]

Mike Boyle send me this rebuttal to my post on the Functional Movement Screen. It is good and though provoking. I still do not agree, but it is good to have diversity of opinion - Vern First let me state that one of my best early sources of education was Vern Gambetta. Vern was a man ahead of his time and was one of the early proponents of what is now called functional training. With that said, [...]