The Miseducation of Mom and Dad

Education Remains Huge

Love LOVE LOVE! That athletes come to us wanting to get stronger, faster, quicker, more powerful, more mobile and more stable.

The only real regret is that we are getting these young athletes well after their earliest skills acquisition. Parents have paid a lot of money to teach the athletes how to swing a racket and a club and a bat and a field hockey stick. The problem is the parents have paid for what they see happening on television and have failed to give their children the opportunity to be fundamentally sound.

Movement fundamentals must not make for good prime time viewing.

Out of sight out of mind with many parents. Therefore, the athletes are doing the swinging and other movements on unstable platforms because their mastery of fundamental movement skills and functional strength is cursory at best.

We are doing it backwards folks. We should be learning balance and dynamic balance before learning to serve. It should be appropriate to understand weight shift before trying to swing a golf club with any quality.

Mastering fundamentals only makes the skills acquisition easier for the athlete to grasp and for the coach to teach.

At some point, we have got to get this through to parents.