Mental mistakes. If you want to minimize them, then take these two phrases out of your vocab: IT’s – “I’m tired” DFLI’s – “I don’t feel like it.” If you do, I’d argue that you will have essentially removed over 50% of the negative mental habits you’ll face as a high performance athlete. Those two …
This video is a fantastic extension to all the discussion that came out of my previous post on mental toughness (see ‘Unfairness: The Missing Ingredient in the Debate on Toughness‘). This is actual footage shot at an in-class session from PGC Basketball… [I never get tired of listening to “Coach D” talk!]. /sef.
So, I tried something new the other day. I began soliciting feedback on Facebook. I asked the question: What’s your definition of “TOUGHNESS”..? (Felt like I was opening up a Pandora’s Box. Ha!) Go ahead… chime in. There’s no expiration date on this debate. Vote: You see, toughness is one of those catch-all buzzwords that gets …
A simple but powerful concept from Jim Rohn… I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Here is the first part: ants never quit. That’s a good philosophy. If you’re headed somewhere and you try to stop them, they’ll look for another way. They’ll climb over, they’ll climb under, they’ll climb …
I had the privilege of travelling with the PGC Basketball directors through the ‘research triangle’ in North Carolina one year. We called it the ‘Tobacco Road Tour‘. And it covered Durham (Duke), Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina), Winston-Salem (Wake Forest) and Raleigh (NC State). Here are some thoughts from our time at the Duke Men’s Basketball …
I know… It’s been some time. At least 3-weeks give or take. Man, I miss writing, but things have been so hectic with me being on the road, that I’ve sold some of my soul to Twitter. The good news is that I can now share, more frequently, in bite sized chunks. The bad news… …
Good poetry makes me forget words, renders me speechless. I don’t hear language littered like trinkets. These aren’t roadside tchotchkes, they’re riverbed stones. Feelings don’t clink like pebbles on tin scraps. These landscapes are laid like boulders, grenade-shattered reveries, vast canyons we’ve ignored… but poetry lets us walk among their ruins. —Kerry Flory What a …
I just read a wonderful quote by Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Holocaust survivor: Whosoever survives a test, Whatever it may be, Must tell the story. That is his duty. This thought resonates with me on a number of levels, but it also connects, I think, to the this video that was on …
This is my first post in a while. I know, I know…. It’s for good reason. I’ve truly been living the nomadic life as these past 3-weeks. Home is where ever I take off my socks for the night. (Actually, there was a few nights at University of Central Missouri two weeks ago when the …
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 …