Every once in a while something comes across my (digital) windshield that makes me pause and say, “Ye-he-he-he-hesssssssss..!!!” It’s like finding the missing piece to at 500-piece puzzle. Or, discovering a crisp $20 in an old pair of jeans. (You get me drift.) Well, this video featuring Bill Knowles of HPSports, gave me that kinda feeling. Quotables: On …
This might be outside the box for many of you, but there’s so much to discover once we get outside of our own sandbox to play. I stumbled upon The Exuberant Animal by chance. And since, have loved experimenting with their ideas and its application to player development. A lot of this may appear very …
I love creative coaching! And, earlier this week I stumbled upon Fitness Quest 10’s Brett Klika. Check out this video he recently posted called ‘Foundational Strength‘. In it, Klika walks you through a fun and effective progression for helping young athletes develop the functional strength to do push-ups. What’s So Important About Push Ups? As …
The following article was taken from the Z-Health newsletter. I really enjoyed it and thought it worth sharing. There is a popular saying in sports: “speed kills.” Ask almost any coach in any game and they will say that what they daydream about the most is a team of ultra-fast players. But what does it …
Here’s a video that I picked up from Swedish coach and friend David Leman’s blog: Leman Coaching. (BTW – If you can translate Swedish, let me know. I know he’s got more nuggets on his site, but I just can’t understand them!) In the video, Lithuanian coach, Evaldas Kandratavicius, takes a young basketball player through …
I attended a fantastic basketball clinic that featured renowned European coach Jasmin Repeša. Coach Repeša has risen through the ranks of international basketball, first as a player and now as a coach. Aside from being the Croatian National team coach, Repeša has also recently worked with Euroleague contender Lottomatica Roma and previously won two Turkish …
Oh, this goodie comes to us via Brian McCormick of The Crossover Movement. It’s a video overlay of footwork skills used in a lateral slide with what the author calls a “trail leg as the power leg” (think: a traditional push-step-slide) contrasted with the “lead leg as the power leg” (…or what I’d call a …
This is a must see video. The NYTimes.com absolutely crushes it (pun only slightly intended!) with the feature which explains why Roger Federer’s footwork is the basis for a nearly flawless game. This is not about tennis. This applies to all sports. This is an insightful illustration/description of fundamental movement skills and basic physical literacy that *any* athlete must obtain to …
When working on the various type of lay-ups and finishing moves, I spend a quite a bit of time teaching basketball players how to utilize two foot take-offs as an important part of their offensive footwork toolbox. (PGC Basketball calls two-foot finishing moves “dynamic jump stops”. That is, ending your forward movement by landing with both feet hitting …
I had to share this research summation that Mike MacKay passed on to me after he attended the Coaching Association of Canada’s 2008 Sport Leadership Conference which was held in Calgary (Alberta). The conference is an annual gathering of sport leaders from Canada and abroad. … Dr. Arne Guillich conducted a study of Olympic athletes. …