You may wish to examine the difference between using ideas and addressing what is in front of you first and foremost and applying what you can in your context.
I don’t really get the point of your post… As for Vern’s talk of intellectual incest… first it should be noted that while at times they (Dan and Vern) disagree they are very good friends.
That is exactly the point, hence why “Gambetta’s talk of intellectual incest ironically seems to ring rather true on this site” where the Pfaff gurudom reigns supreme.
[b]Dan (and Boo, and Loren, and Tony Wells, and Coach Tellez, et al)[/b].
So with the exception of Wells, all guys Pfaff has worked with for many years in the same college program aka the “Pfaffian family tree”, a term which ironically enough demonstrates the very intellectual incest you are unable to grasp.
There seems to be a number of coaches on this site who have come around on various issues Pfaff has promoted e.g.:
That field tests/weight room numbers and correlations/establishing standards have little validity and meaning beyond the individual and even then are limited in validity.
That tempo running serves a great purepose and general strength circuits are not getting it done for sprinters as a means of building work capacity.
That very few coaches have the ability to design a cohesive program when they get caught up in addressing 40 different strength qualities or proprioceptive organelles or fascial qualities rather than the major biomotor abilities.
I don’t expect anyone here to actually admit to trying to be a wannabe Pfaff rather than a coach to their athletes. Keep in mind though, with the latest wave of “latest and greatest” in the Jamaican methods, the one’s who succeed will the one’s who keep their eyes on their own situation and context rather than following the trends of someone else.
Pfaff, Charlie Francis, Steven Francis etc don’t develop great ideas, they just train what’s in front of them and then years later they decide retrospectively what it was that “worked” for them, often erroneously. Any coach wishing to be that successful, would be well advised to address what is front of them and quit copying others programming details and worrying about others’weight room numbers and jump/throw standards.