“most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding”
"You are designing for people the way you would like them to be, not for the way they really are."
“Great designers produce pleasurable experiences”
5 years ago I started our football 🏈 athletes on a weekly (7-9 months a year) gymnastics training and tackle prep. Our DC handles the tackle prep. I value the gymnastics portion so much I hired a qualified coach who works with our kids 1x week.
“Why dont we have a contact, collision, skills program that they follow as religiously as their S&C program
Don’t need to be knocking on each other bone on bone. Im talking landing, rolling, hitting, driving, dropping height, wrapping up, head in. Keeping our body battle ready”
How do you increase explosive strength once basic jumping is no longer enough?
That’s where Verkhoshansky placed depth jumps.
Not as general or extensive plyometrics, but as shock method exercises.
The goal was to introduce a sharp external force through a prescribed drop
"Something we're never going to do in a Fire practice is teach a move 1 on 0. We don't believe in teaching techniques; we create the situation, 1 on 1, 1 on 2, :03 shot clock, must find a finish w/ your left hand.
"Every player has unique constraints based on development plan."
great scheme. Aligning the TE’s in this way necessitates that the edge play O/S half of the down TE not a true 6t. Widens the space and the insert is a matchup advantage for OFF (big WR vs small slot). Also taking advantage of defense playing blocks & not getting vertical in gaps
23 minutes and 23 seconds of Reteaching the “Stick Concept” by Me ( CoachTF) after 28 years running it…Good/Bad/Ugly… Major coaching points that work for me and my teams
important for practitioners to help learners with ‘where to look’ but not restrict their search strategies by being overly prescriptive and telling them ‘what to see’
“If the motor skills are by definition effective, not efficient. Efficiency comes later”
“Ive had athletes who technically, according to what the standard pattern says in the books, say, are not particularly good. Now of course, they went to the Olympic Games for not being good”