Posted on: October 19th, 2010 by IYCA 1 Comment
World-renowned Speed Coach, Latif Thomas, asked me to answer questions live on an internationally broadcasted conference call.
He allowed his audience to email any questions they had for me.
Roughly 100 questions came pouring in that night….
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– Brian
Posted on: March 24th, 2009 by IYCA 8 Comments
You could open an interesting debate with respect to teaching sporting skills to kids.
I did last week during a presentation I gave to area basketball coaches.
Some trainers and coaches have decided that the skills required to achieve a certain task should be taught from the beginning.
Others believe in the concept of motor patterning – allowing the young athlete to find his or her own way of achieving a task.
The debate gets even trickier when you factor in the varying nuances and therefore objectives of different sports.
For example, in basketball, if the ball goes in the hoop, it doesn’t really matter how it got there.
But in diving, you know going in that once you jump off the platform, gravity will pull you into the water – the style in which you get there is all that really matters.
Where do you sit on this debate?
I asked the coaches in my audience the same question.
Should you teach or over-teach a certain style of execution to young athletes from day one, or should you allow the young athletes to learn the relative motor patterning via exploration and natural refinement?
Posted on: August 21st, 2008 by IYCA No Comments
I just got back from Australia…
…. And let me tell you – I am jet lagged!
The trip home from locations that far away are always
toughest.
I ended up flying from Melbourne to Auckland – Auckland to
Los Angeles – Los Angeles to Chicago.
Total time = 28 hours.
But it was worth every second.
Not only is it an honor to get invited to share my
knowledge worldwide, but it’s also incredibly enlightening
to sit in the audience and learn from other athlete development professionals.
Most of whom you may never have heard of.
And although we didn’t prepare any topics together,
we all ended up talking about the same general thing –
Communication.
Not one second of time was spent on discussing sets,
reps, exercises or programming.
All three of us lectured on the importance of
communication when it comes to your clients and athletes.
And our messages were 100% congruous:
The program doesn’t matter if your clients don’t
‘buy into’ the message.
Paul discussed this topic from his perspective as a
human behavior specialist.
Douglas from his specialty of sports medicine.
And of course I presented my take on the topic from
the perspective of a coach.
:: How do you coach young athletes who have different
personalities and learning styles?
:: What is the approach you use with high skill athletes
versus low skill athletes?
:: Why communication is the most important, but most
misunderstood part of producing champion athletes?
These are the main questions I answered during my two
hour lecture.
And the reality is that I took every second of my
presentation from the material contained in Complete
Athlete Development.
Not only has this all-inclusive package become known
worldwide as the number one collection of speed, strength,
flexibility and coordination athlete development training for
young athletes, but it also contains my own personal
coaching template that teaches you how to get the very
best out of each and every one of your young athletes.
I was overwhelmed at the conclusion of my seminar to
see and hear the audience so incredibly appreciative of
the information I provided.
Time for you to look at Complete Athletes Development and
see for yourself why ‘communication’ is the most critical
factor to developing championship young athletes.
Here’s a link for you to look at –
http://developingathletics.com/cad-short-copy.html
I’m off to get some sleep…
‘Till next time,
Brian
Posted on: June 20th, 2008 by IYCA 5 Comments
Great kid.
Hard worker.
Lots of talent.
But very quiet and tends to get left out in other kids fitness partner drills.
It’s very faint in the video, but you can just barely hear me talking to him.
I’m inspiring him based on what I’ve seen about his personality.
Talking just to him.
Notice the ‘high five’ and quick pat on the stomach at the end of his set.
Sometimes it’s good to motivate loudly.
Other times it’s effective to be highly energetic and charismatic.
But you have to understand your audience and determine how best they will listen to your message.
In this case, I felt it was critical to let him know I thought he did a great job without being overly exuberant about it.