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Up to 20% off at HPCsport Store

2008-11-30T04:11:55-05:00

To celebrate the launch of our new company store and to kickoff the holiday season, buyers can receive up to 20% off on all products purchased at the new store. Use the following coupon codes:

Code               Discount       Availability 
cybermonday           10%       12/1/08 - 12/2/08
newstore              10%       11/28/08 - 12/6/08 

Both coupons can be combined on the availability overlap.

Happy Thanksgiving

2008-11-27T04:26:37-05:00

What are you thankful for?

For starters, I’m thankful for my family, the health of my wife and 2 year old daughter, the ability and means to pursue a career that I want to do, and the fact that I live in a country where democracy rules.

25% off all merchandise at HPCsport

2008-10-21T15:22:44-05:00

From now until November 4th, you can receive a 25% discount on your first item purchased at HPCsport. Enter the coupon code “ELECTION” and the discount will be taken off at checkout. There’s a $40 minimum order.

Job Opening at Notre Dame College

2008-10-30T10:10:39-05:00

A job posting was passed on to me. Contact Coach Magill if you’re interested.

Notre Dame College - Ohio

Part-time assistant coach needed to oversee the horizontal jumps. Successful coaching experience at either the high school or collegiate level preferred, although successful collegiate jumpers will be considered as well. Will be responsible for overseeing and implementing all aspects of the horizontal jumps training as well as a few other minor responsibilities as deemed necessary by the head coach. If interested please contact Head Coach Joe Magill at (216) 373-5195, (216) 571-2725 or jmagill at ndc dot edu.

Improved Article Viewing!

2008-10-04T21:00:39-05:00

All the articles in the article database have been converted to flash files and are now embedded in the site for immediate viewing. You can still download the PDF by clicking on the title link. Enjoy!

Get Training DVDs for Cheap

2008-09-20T21:54:49-05:00

I have just finished remastering some DVDs that my company produces and sells and I have a limited number of DVDs that I would consider ‘test runs’ and will be selling at a discount.

These DVDs have some very minor imperfection but all are still in very high quality and most importantly work. To give you an example of the types of ‘imperfection’ on these discs are the following:

*having a menu screen that works but visually looks ugly
*having an extra 20 seconds of video at the beginning of the video
*having video that was not cropped perfectly so there is a small strip of blank black screen at the bottom and / or top of the screen
*having video that was not deinterlaced which means that if their is fast movement on the screen it may get blurry for a second

The discs are from a clinic my company put on 2 years for baseball. HOWEVER, each disc has 2 presentations of 40+ minutes (at least 90 minutes of material) on it and even if you’re not a baseball player or coach there’s quite a bit of relevant info on training and conditioning.

Here’s the description of the 2 Discs:

Disc 2

The second DVD in this series features Perry Husband of Filthy Training Systems and Mike Young of Human Performance Consulting. This DVD is all about speed…understanding concepts of “Effective Velocity” and sprinting speed development.

Filthy: Science of Effective Velocity by Perry Husband-Filthy Training Systems

Former College World Series Div. 2 MVP and Minnesota Twins draftee presents his innovative approach to pitching and hitting: “Filthy: The Science of Effective Velocity.”

Developing 6.2 60 yd/3.7 Home-2-First by Mike Young-Human Performance Consulting

Mike details the speed development methods that he has become widely recognized for. In this DVD Mike examines the physical and technical components of speed and provides easily applied coaching techniques to improve an athlete’s speed.

Disc 3

The third DVD in this series features almost 2 hours of Ron Wolforth of the Texas Baseball Ranch and Mike Young of Human Performance Consulting. The presenters bring a wealth of training knowledge and experience and provide blockbuster presentations that will help to improve your game.

America Losing the Pitching Battle by Ron Wolforth-Texas Baseball Ranch

World reknowned pitching expert Ron Wolforth delivers a spirited talk on why the American pitchers are failing to develop like their foreign counterparts. Ron has assisted in the development of 27 drafted players and his insights are both insprirational and informative.

Periodized Training for Baseball Players by Mike Young-Human Performance Consulting

An expert in planning training for speed-power athletes, Mike details his plan for developing a systematic speed and power development training program for baseball players. Mike covers topics such as strength training guidelines, overload, compatible and complimentary training methods, and off-season and in-season training plans.

I have a limited number of these DVDs and will be selling them for $20 each or $35 if you buy both. If you’re interested in purchasing them PM me.

New Tagging features added to ET

2008-09-15T16:23:29-05:00

New tagging features have been added to the site. Tags have been added to most blog entries on the site. This permits an improved, more functional tag cloud as well as a display showing the tags and a link to other items with those tags on an articles detail page, and a ‘related entries’ section under the entry. Hopefully this will help to resurface some of the old blog material since there’s tons of valuable info in the archives. Tagging of items will continue until complete.

Cool Link

2008-09-08T23:43:55-05:00

1988 Olympics

New Olympic Forum

2008-08-16T17:36:55-05:00

There’s a new Olympic Forum. I’ve moved all Olympic related discussion there and we’ll use it as a central location for our Olympic related discussion. Please post all Olympic related discussion, including results there. After the games are done, I’ll move everything back to the appropriate category.

Hugo Munoz HJ Festival and Camp

2008-06-04T12:46:09-05:00

Respected jumps coach, Hugo Munoz is putting on a HJ festival and 1 day camp. Details can be found here:

http://www.kangaroohighjumpfestival.org

http://www.kangarootrackclub.org/kangaroohighjumpfestivalclinic.htm