Vincent A Malts

I love to learn & help highly committed athletes achieve success in life using athletic performance as their vehicle & purpose to create meaningful change.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A third grader just scored a 5 on AP Calculus BC. The system that trained him contains no LLM. The core is a knowledge graph one man spent 250 hours encoding by hand, two minutes per edge.

The platform is Math Academy. Its "AI" is an expert system that routes each student through nearly 3,000 math topics, from 4th grade arithmetic to the math behind machine learning. Every node, every prerequisite link, every weight was placed manually by a team of mathematicians.

The weights alone took Justin Skycak a full month: 1,500 topics at the time, roughly 5 prerequisite links each, 2 minutes to estimate each one. 8 hours a day of pure encoding, done before ChatGPT existed to ease the load.

Why go through that? Because the graph unlocks mastery learning, the closest thing education research has to a cheat code. In 1984, Benjamin Bloom showed that students with one-on-one tutoring perform two standard deviations above a regular classroom. The average tutored kid beats 98% of the lecture hall.

Nobody could afford a tutor per child, so the finding sat in journals for 40 years. A prerequisite graph with a mastery gate is the workaround. The system always knows the exact next topic a specific kid is ready for, drills it until proven, then moves on. Zero time spent waiting for 29 classmates.

That waiting is most of school. A year of classroom math is roughly 150 hours of instruction, and the majority goes to pacing, review, and re-teaching. Strip it out and a motivated kid covers six grade levels in one calendar year.

The origin makes it better: this grew out of a math program at Pasadena High School where 8th graders were passing AP Calculus BC, back when the founders were still hand-grading the whole thing.

The most effective education AI running today is a graph a few humans built by hand, one edge at a time.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“I think the intangible of teams getting this far is the camaraderie, the tightness of it. It’s what draws me into this game. Just love being in the game to watch a team be a team. Not just on the ice, more importantly off the ice before they get there,” John Tortorella

[Vincent A Malts @evolvingathlete]

#leadership

[Emily Kaplan @emilymkaplan]

Rod the Bod 💪

How Rod Brind’Amour sets the standard for the @Canes work ethic, leading by example.

[CLANKO MEDIA @ClankoMedia]

Excerpt from a conversation with a current D1 Hockey player and NHL Draft pick.

Food for thought from a guy who made it:

[Vincent A Malts @evolvingathlete]

THIS

[Circle-In @circleinteam]

Your roster's talent is not your ceiling. Your team's ability to coordinate that talent is.

Most coaches evaluate players individually and assume the team is the sum of what they find. It isn't. Performance is not additive. It’s combinational and emerges from how players interact, coordinate, and adapt.

The same roster, connected and interacting differently, is a different team. Two equally talented rosters regularly produce dramatically different results - not because of individual player effort, work ethic, attitude, character, or game plans, but because of how efficiently one team converts individual abilities and attributes into collective action under pressure, against resistance, through changing contexts, and over a full season.

When teams are underperforming, coaches will notice things like:
•Execution failures
•Player disconnection
•Performance inconsistency
•Limited adaptability
•Low energy
•Declining motivation

What they cannot see are the underlying drivers that are always in play:
•Individual player perceptions
•Shared orientation
•Collective understanding
•Social structures
•Relationship quality
•Information flows
•Energy dispersion

Circle-In gives you visibility and access into the hidden drivers that are always shaping your team's collective behavior and its impact on performance. For the first time, you're not coaching around what you can't see, you're coaching with it.

#CoachingLife #TeamDevelopment #SportsLeadership #sports #teams #collegesports #performance #potential #culture #dynamics #behavior #chemistry #coaching #generative #winning #groupdynamics #teamculture

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Rod Brind'Amour shares the one question every competitor and great teammate needs to ask themselves.

"You just gotta ask yourself one question all the time - are you doing your part?"

"Whatever it is. It's not going right. Okay. Are you doing everything you can every day to make it right?"

"If the answer is yes - stick with it. Then stick with it. It'll either turn or it won't. But you can at least know there's nothing more you can do. Feel good about that."

It's about giving your best all the time.

Then he made it personal:
"Are you doing everything you can to be the best player you can be?"

"You'll know if you're not."

That's the question. Simple. Honest. And no hiding from it.

You can't control the outcome.

You can only control the effort and how you show up.

(🎥 The Grind Performance Podcast )

[Vincent A Malts @evolvingathlete]

🙏🙏🙏

[CLANKO MEDIA @ClankoMedia]

Great move by the USHL adding Vinny Malts to this event. He alone is worth the price of admission. Every player will walk away with a truly eye-opening experience.

@bloodlinehockey @evolvingathlete

[Vincent A Malts @evolvingathlete]

@ClankoMedia @bloodlinehockey Appreciate you brother🙏❤️

[Bakersfield Condors @Condors]

Wednesday Rewind⏪#53 Isaac Howard

#Condorstown | https://t.co/R7vQ93ZKWW

[Vincent A Malts @evolvingathlete]

Be a chef who plays music🎯

[J.P. Hovey @jhovey34]

Honestly was not expecting Eric Church to give one of the best commencement speeches of all time.

Chief CRUSHED this 🫡

[Sean Shapiro @seanshapiro]

Porter Martone's year at Michigan State came with intention in the weight room. He gained 12 pounds, lost 3 percent body fat and became NHL ready.

I caught up with Will Morlock about how it happened and why it's an ideal case study for other CHLers.

https://t.co/VSl3xLhHtb

[Vincent A Malts @evolvingathlete]

@ClankoMedia

[Edmonton Oilers @EdmontonOilers]

🥶 @isaac_howard22

[Coach_Healy @Coach_Healy]

What an unbelievable watch. Masterclass in modern coaching! Approach, mindset, separating the on ice performance from the person. Worth the 25 mins!!

[Quinnipiac Athletics @QUAthletics]

@QU_AcroTumbling 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐒

Congrats to Mr. Bobcat, Matt McGroarty!

#BobcatNation x @QU_MIH

[Adam Gretz @AGretz]

Was looking at how every team in the second round acquired its players. Obviously still waiting to see if it is Tampa Bay or Montreal, but of the seven teams already through.

Trades.

Lots of trades.

Not as many draft picks.

[Glenn Hefferan @GlennHefferan]

This is why the @USHL celebrates its advancement to NCAA Division I hockey.

Nearly half of our players earn Division I commitments each season.

In the USHL, college advancement isn’t something players hide, its shared and celebrated.

#PlayersFirst
https://t.co/5ckCMhR8nY

[Vincent A Malts @evolvingathlete]

@GlennHefferan @JeffLoVecchio How much are we collectively thinking about this — together? The core solution to every variable on that list is mindset performance. How we think about it is the thing. Collective cohesion. Individual development. Everything else is downstream #iykyk

[Bakersfield Condors @Condors]

Postgame with Colin Chaulk on his thoughts about the teams play for the 6-1 victory against Coachella.

#Condorstown

[Allan Walsh🏒 @walsha]

There was a time when we were all this young guy. Take a moment, watch this again and feel it. This is what it’s all about.