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2010-08-25T19:41:00.000-07:00

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NEW BLOG FOR SPRING 2010 Coming SOON

2010-02-24T10:10:00.000-08:00

Thoughts from the first couple weeks of Season.

2009-12-01T10:07:00.000-08:00

This season is upon us..Early thoughts

1. Talent can win early however a seasoned team can beat a young talented team early and often. Role players and glue guys are the most valuable component to winning. Lack of support for a talented player means lack of "W"s.

2a. Pre Season workouts for the Athletes I have worked with have proven results early in season. The ability to teach and build relationships with special people everyday is a blessing, I love to see the instant gratification of competing and winning as a result of all the sweat dedication and training for these athletes.

2b. Growth is constant, early season games have proven we have a lot to work on.

3. Scheduling. Coaches have a very tough decision to make for scheduling their pre-conference opponents. Do some teams have a false sense of confidence due to early season scheduling? Does a young team need to taste defeat to succeed later? TEAM,Confidence and Ability are the strongest components to a winning attitude. Adversity can bring you closer or crush your spirit. Be a BEAST mentally and physically.

4. The guy that you didn't think was any good, worked on his game and trained all off season and just dunked on you and took your spot. I love the diamonds in the rough on any level..

5. Recovery and Nutrition are key to succeed and not fizzle at the end of the year. A season is a marathon not a sprint, fuel your body and repair. Sleep, hydrate and hydrate.

November Rain

2009-11-02T10:05:00.000-08:00

Hoops Season is in the air. Yesterday I had a packed day at Sierra Strength and Speed in Reno NV, full of Athletes in their final preparations and adjustments in training to fine tune their performance. For my most consistent athletes we worked on pre-hab band work, followed by a Keiser/ Basketball Anaerobic Circuit. The circuit is designed to replicate two halves of a game with fouls and stop play etc. Very sport specific, Only properly trained athletes can exert full output and not breakdown into bad form.

It was a true testament to the hard work these young athletes have dedicated to their training.

In have been fortunate to put them through the strength and power phases, the last two weeks we are circuit training and on court prep. All workouts incorporate Dynamic and Pre hab and active recovery phases.

Here is the circuit

45 seconds on 30-90 seconds off- (yesterday we used HR)

I suggest a Polar Heart Monitor for all training anaerobic.

********All Exc. Designed for form and precision*

Stairmaster Avg

Keiser Squat

Slide Board

Keisier shoulder Press

Full Court Sprint

KeiserLateral Pushes 2 Jump

Physio Hamstring Curls

Rapid Box Jumps

Pushups

Versaclimber

3 minute Recovery

2 minute Shots

2nd Half. 30-40 Seconds Repeat

Columbia Athletic CLub, Sports Specific Training

2009-10-27T10:08:00.001-07:00

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Originally uploaded by Elite Pro Performance

Come workout with our top National Trainer Carlos Humphrey.@ Columbia Athletic Club.
Check the flier!
ARE YOU ELITE?

Athlete First. Volume II. Clinic Reno,NV..Nov 7th,2009

2009-10-26T10:20:00.001-07:00

Athlete First Baketball Clinic, Vol. 2

November 7th,2009@ Sierra Strength and Speed

(Reno,NV)

Limited to 20 participants per Session!

Get Ready for Basketball Season.
Designed for players of all Skill levels.
Drills Based upon Athletic Development and Experience.

ONE DAY ONLY

Where:Sierra Strength and Speed, 3760 Barron Way. Reno, NV
When: Sunday, Nov 7th ,2009,

Grades 9-12 11am to 1:30pm **FEE: $45 LIMIT: 20 Athletes

Grades 6-8th 2pm to 3:30pm **FEE: $30 LIMIT: 20 Athletes

To Register: email: dr.kdavis@yahoo.com or info@eliteproperformance.com

SEND PAYMENT TO: Kevin Davis, 14835 Davos Dr., Truckee, CA 96161

Make checks out to: Elite Pro Performance

**Clinic fee must be prepaid to reserve spot. 48 hour cancellation for refund.

-Skills Addressed

*Basketball fundamentals
*Footwork
*Shooting
*Pre Tryout Basics
*Advanced drills for skilled players.
*Dynamic Warmup
*Rapid Response take home program geared to Increase foot speed and hand eye speed.
*Sierra Strength and Speed Youth Development
*Dynamic Warmup
*Injury prevention

*Featured Instructors*

Mike Atkinson, ACE CPT
Sierra Strength and Speed, Basketball Sport Spec Dev.
matkinson@eliteproperformance.comDr.

DR. Kevin Davis, SPORTS Injury Specialist
NextStepHoops.com
WWW.ELITEPROPERFORMANCE.COM

Elite Pro Performance. What makes us different.

2009-10-22T08:23:00.000-07:00

Elite Pro Performance has been the trendsetter for basketball training. We are professionals who are specialized in the skills to take athletes and their abilities to the next level. The difference is experience and quality of our Trainers and Staff. Dedicated to youth development.

The trend of playing more games and training less has created a huge gap in poor positioning and fundamentals of young athletes, over use injuries etc.

Basketball has become so backwards that a new initiative from Nike/Adidas and NBA to fix the very problem they created, the www.ihoops.com was created to bring the game back to fundamentals and make it enjoyable at all levels of experience and skill. Elite Pro Performance has been providing the fundamentals and youth development training since our inception and will continue to be, Its just what we do. Don't be taken advantage of.

New EPP Video Warm-Up 2.0..

2009-10-01T11:27:00.000-07:00

This warmup is for advanced athletes, Do not attempt without a professional trainer or coach.

Stretch in the Hamstring, Hip Flexor and core activator

Key Positioning Cues:
Tall Chest
Back leg is pressing through the ground, firing the Glute.

Number 3 New Orleans- Workout

2009-10-01T08:59:00.000-07:00

You might recognize some of the drills- Either you train or you don't

Are you Elite?

Pre Season Tips

2009-09-24T13:32:00.000-07:00

Few Tips for Preseason training

KEEP using the Dynamic Warm up, so often I ask athletes did you warm up?( 9 out of 10 time not really)

Intake of Calories, A car does not run without gas are you a Benz or a Bicycle???EAT!!!

Incorporate one day of recovery into your schedule regardless if its active or not. We can not lose quality for Quantity.

Hydration Drink more Water!

Stay up on your homework and grades, coaches like smart and dedicated people to lead their teams

TIME MANAGEMENT is key.

Sleep.

Pony Promo...hmmm

2009-09-24T13:02:00.000-07:00

Elite Pro Performance and North Sound Elite

2009-09-14T10:55:00.000-07:00

Proud to Announce Training Partner in WA!!!

http://www.northsoundelite.org/Training.htm

HowToPlayProBasketball.com

2009-09-10T14:57:00.000-07:00

I did a hour and fifteen minute interview with this website. It was a great time, they EDITED!!! for Promo only since it is subscription based service. Here is some photos and other images with the interview attached.

FIT 4 FIGHT

2009-08-31T13:19:00.001-07:00

Athlete First. Volume One. Clinic Reno,NV

2009-08-31T10:35:00.000-07:00

www.Sierrastrength.com www.EliteProPerformance.com www.nextstephoops.com

Athlete First Basketball Clinic, Vol 1. One Day, Intensive Clinic

Limited to 12 participants per Session!

Get Ready for Basketball Season.
Designed for players of all Skill levels.
Drills Based upon Athletic Development and Experience.

ONE DAY ONLY

Where:Sierra Strength and Speed, 3760 Barron Way.
When: Sunday Oct 4th ,2009
Cost 45.00 includes Basketball Bag courtesy of Goal Setters!!!!

Grades 4th-7th Boys 9am-1130am
Grades 9th-12th Boys 1pm-4pm

Skills Adressed

*Basketball fundamentals
*Footwork
*Shooting
*Pre Tryout Basics
*Advanced drills for skilled players.
*Dynamic Warmup
*Rapid Response take home program geared to Increase foot speed and hand eye speed.
*Sierra Strength and Speed Youth Development
*Dynamic Warmup
*Injury prevention

Call or Email to Register

julie@nextstephoops.com, or Call 775-342-7333

*Featured Instructors*

Mike Atkinson, ACE CPT
Sierra Strength and Speed, Basketball Sport Spec Dev.
matkinson@eliteproperformance.com

Dr. Kevin Davis
NextStepHoops.com
Sports Injury Specialist
http://www.nextstephoops.com/3.html

School is in Session...

2009-08-31T09:37:00.000-07:00

The summer is officially over for many young student athletes. The hard work and dedication that has been put in the summer will surely present itself in fall workouts. I encourage the few that have pushed themselves this summer to make sure they send statements based upon action to coaches and teamates that the summer wasn't spent at the lake or on family vay kay. The sweat and fundamentals poured into the late hot afternoons and early am's may go unseen but not unnoticed. Being above the rest is the motivator that motivated me through long summers and is what continues to motivate me as a professional trainer.

Time flies by....Season starts in 3 months!!! www. SierraStrength.com

SHout out to T. Hill Basketball Scholarship to Missouri Valley College!

Interesting Blog From D-Trained AAU

2009-08-31T09:34:00.000-07:00

Startling Confessions By KEVIN CLARK When the season begins, many will learn something else: They don’t know how to play basketball. One system that prepares young American players for the pros, the Amateur Athletic Union, is, by most accounts, broken. Without a rigid minor-league system like baseball’s or the extra seasoning football players get in college, America’s basketball gems increasingly get their training from teams affiliated with the Amateur Athletic Union, a vast national youth-basketball circuit that has groomed many of the sport’s top stars. For some time, coaches have grumbled that the AAU’s emphasis on building stars and playing games over practicing produces a lot of talented prospects who have great physical skills but limited knowledge of the fundamentals. Now some players are speaking out. By the middle of the last NBA season, as concerns build about his dwindling playing time and rough transition to the NBA, last year’s No. 2 overall pick, Michael Beasley of the Miami Heat, finally conceded a fundamental flaw: No one, at any level in his basketball career, had asked him to play defense. And especially not in AAU. “If you’re playing defense in AAU, you don’t need to be playing,” he says. “I’ve honestly never seen anyone play defense in AAU.” An AAU official declined to comment for this article. The chorus of critics ranges from AAU player Alex Oriakhi, a McDonald’s All-American center who plans to play for the University of Connecticut, who says shooting guards he’s seen in AAU are in for a “rude awakening” to USA Basketball officials and NBA coaches.

Founded in 1888, the AAU’s first goal was to represent American sports internationally. AAU teams blossomed in many sports, and the organization became a driving force in preparing Olympic athletes. In 1978, the Amateur Sports Act established a governing body for American Olympic sports, usurping the AAU’s role as an Olympic launching pad. Its most notable sport today is basketball, where it counts Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James among its alumni. In recent years the circuit has gone from a high school diversion—a way to supplement school teams—to a highly organized and often well-funded operation. The non-profit AAU moved its headquarters in 1996 from Indianapolis to Orlando, where it hosts national championships at a palatial Disney World complex. Shoe companies have sponsored AAU teams as a way to develop early relationships with future superstars. Agents and college coaches have flocked to AAU games, where they can get to know players outside the watchful high-school system. The opportunity to travel across the country and play in front of these kingmakers—often on teams with other top prospects—is something high schools can’t deliver.

The result is a mixture of unrestrained offense and Harlem Globetrotter defense: Even with 32-minute games, far shorter than the NBA’s 48 or NCAA’s 40, top AAU teams often score more than 70 points and sometimes more than 80. “It’s a bad system for developing players,” says Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy. “They aren’t learning to handle the ball, they aren’t learning to make plays against pressure. The emphasis with our high-school players is to get exposure and play as many games as you can and show everybody how great you are. If I can win the 11-and-12 year old league and tell all my friends about it, that is a whole lot more important than if my kids actually get any better or learn anything about the game.” In Europe, Mr. Van Gundy says, “those guys are doing five or six practices for every game. They are spending a lot of time in the gym working on individual skills. It’s reversed here.” New Orleans Hornets forward Peja Stojakovic, who is Serbian, remembers spending four hours a day dribbling through chairs and working on defense and other fundamentals in practices. Mr. Beasley, on the other hand, says he can’t remember any specific defensive drills his AAU teams ran. “If you put structure into AAU,” he says, “no one would play.”

No prospect in this year’s draft knows this better than point guard Brandon Jennings. Last year, Mr. Jennings was one of America’s best high-school point guards and the quintessential product of AAU. Rather than doing a one-year minimum stint in college before entering the NBA draft, he played a season in Italy where, he says, things were different. His time in Europe began with a rare stretch for an AAU product: He went weeks without touching a basketball. His team spent the preseason running across Roman parks and soccer fields. In September, they retreated to an Italian mountain hideaway for two weeks and ran there, too. They practiced fundamentals and rarely scrimmaged. Coming from the AAU, this was new for Mr. Jennings, who averaged 5.5 points per game in limited minutes during the in Italy. It was, he says, the most intense two weeks of his basketball life. If he’d never gone to Europe, he says, “I wouldn’t know the pick-and-roll game. I wouldn’t know how to guard, wouldn’t know how to fight through screens. I’m stronger now.” Mr. Jennings, who will almost certainly be a first-round pick Thursday, says the experience will give him an edge over other players in the draft. In a bid to make sure players are more seasoned before they go pro, the NBA, in 2006, began requiring players to be 19 and a year out of high school to enter the draft. While college’s best players often leave after one or two years, four years of college can sometimes help a career: take fundamentally sound North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough, who could be a first-round pick Thursday, despite widespread knocks on his athleticism. The league has also built a minor league system, the NBA Development League, though it is only used for high draft picks in extreme cases. In 2008, the NBA and NCAA also announced a youth initiative, called iHoops, to improve the American structure. While the U.S. national basketball team redeemed itself with a gold medal in Beijing after a string of embarrassments in international play, Jerry Colangelo, the national director of USA Basketball who is in charge of the Olympic team, says the system is still deeply flawed. He suggests giving high school coaches more access to their players, especially in the summer.

The AAU system has its defenders. New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul says that thanks to the AAU, he learned to play the style of the Utah Jazz’s offense when he was 11-years old and credits AAU for starting his development into one of the top point guards in the NBA. He now runs his own AAU team, the CP3 All-Stars in North Carolina. “Some coaches teach fundamentals, some coaches run and show athleticism. It’s not necessarily a problem because it’s up to you to watch and concentrate,” he says. Anthony Lewis, an AAU coach from Baltimore who helped develop Rudy Gay of the Memphis Grizzlies, who was the No. 8 draft pick in 2006, says AAU helped teach the skinny 13-year-old not to settle for easy shots. “We taught him to work away from the bucket,” Mr. Lewis says. “Working on mid-range at a young age, putting the ball on the floor, making him aggressive.”

The Month of July

2009-07-26T21:59:00.000-07:00

As we get to the end of the busiest month for Basketball coaches,players and agents,scouts,trainers, camp directors,agents, scouts,parents.

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I must sit back and reflect on my month of July,

Sierra Strength and SPeed in Reno seeing many athletes in between there High School AM workouts and Summer League games then AAU tournaments on the weekends. I respect the athlete that does it all in the summer for it is not easy and definitely a choice to make when your peers are at the lake or sleeping in until noon. The summer it is intense.

I directed the 2nd Annual High ALtitude Basketball Camp, in Squaw Valley this past summer. Preparing for this camp was the main fovis for myself and provided me plenty of long nights.

Camp was an amazing sucess and we where proud to have another great year at Basketball Camp. We had a lot of kids from Reno and SParks area and as far as Southern California. The tradition continues.....www.highaltitudebball.com, more on camp in a later Blog.

I was on the radio three times! SHout out to Alice 96.5 Connie is the best, Bill not so Bad either

j/k!!!

Appeared at Galena BASKETBALL camp and warmed up Camp, I love having fun with future Grizzlies. Coach is the man. I learned the x's and o's from him.GreaT Teacher

The summer is a chance to create memories and for athletes it is designed to work on the weakness and for some to make a name for them self in the heat of the summer recruiting circuit. I know as a teacher and a trainer I have grown considerably and look forward to another hot August in Reno, NV.

New AM Group Class 5 week Program SSS. Limited Enrollment Starts in Sept.

2009-06-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

SIerra Strength and Speed: Breakfast Club Core Training from Mike Atkinson on Vimeo.

Climb The Legacy.. Final Times and Finishing Places..Top 5 finish!!!

2009-06-07T09:14:00.000-07:00

1	What a great event the American Lung Association of Nevada raised over $40,000!!! Sierra Strength and Speed two top 5 finishers!...www.ClimbTheLegacy.com Chris Badolato	My Drinking Has a Running Problem	241	31	***** M 30-39	03:26.8
2	Joe Dibble	Sierra Strength & Speed	217	33	***** M 30-39	03:46.7
3	Peter Althausen	Vertical Pounders by Anatomie	201	38	***** M 30-39	03:49.0
4	Sean O'Brien	IGT Health & Wellness Center	268	36	1 M 30-39	04:09.3
5	Michael Atkinson	Sierra Strength & Speed	522	0	1 M 0- 0	04:16.2
6	Chandler Walker	BattleBorn CrossFit	233	22	1 M 19-29	04:18.5
7	Ryan Golec	F.I.T. + D	297	31	2 M 30-39	04:20.0
8	Robert Gurnea	Vertical Pounders by Anatomie	203	42	1 M 40-49	04:21.2
9	Doug Thomas		254	18	1 M 1-18	04:23.3
10	Kurt Hunsberger	Vertical Pounders by Anatomie	202	45	2 M 40-49	04:26.4
11	Dave Hodgson		246	26	2 M 19-29	04:30.6
12	Darren Blackett	Vertical Pounders by Anatomie	205	43	3 M 40-49	04:34.7
13	Edin Chavez	Home Perfect Painting	395	28	3 M 19-29	04:35.7
14	mel magboo	BattleBorn CrossFit	231	41	4 M 40-49	04:36.6
15	Christopher Gottlich	Law Office of Kathleen A. Siqurdson	261	18	2 M 1-18	04:39.2
16	Darrell Soyars	NV Energy	337	42	5 M 40-49	04:42.3
17	Rob Conatser	Sierra Strength & Speed	216	40	6 M 40-49	04:45.3
18	Gayla Jorgensen	The Real Women of the BLC	330	42	***** F 40-49	04:50.3
19	Micah Wilcox	REMSA	283	24	4 M 19-29	04:51.1
20	Ron Leiken		391	46	7 M 40-49	04:54.5

Sierra Strength, With the Big Boys..Check the link

2009-06-03T09:55:00.000-07:00

Sierra Strength and Speed

Sierra Strength and Speed.

2009-06-01T12:18:00.000-07:00

Northern Nevada's Finest Training New Web Site.

A little Illustration on power.

2009-05-31T11:36:00.000-07:00

Lebron Pre Game Workout

2009-05-31T09:23:00.000-07:00

Got this video from D-Trained's Blog. I like the workout...However I think Lebron's form could be worked on..My clients should recognize some of the workout. Shout out to "Full Timeout Blog"

Adversity

2009-05-28T09:05:00.000-07:00

We all have certain obstacles to overcome in life. Remember we have a choice. What's your vision and goal?

One Armed Basketball Player earns D1 Scholarship

Snake 2 Bucket

2009-05-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

Often with this drill we start with just three cones and focus on the start and stop.

This clip offers an advanced athlete putting it all together.

All high Intensity drills must keep form tight.

Enjoy.Tip of the Iceberg.

High Altitude Gorilla 09

2009-05-26T10:03:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day, Reno

2009-05-20T10:38:00.000-07:00

600 teams will be in Reno this week, I will be there doing my best Jerry Maguire. Love this weekend get to meet with coaches and families and watch my local athletes compete on their AAU teams. Come find me at the World Events booth.

Who is going to camp?

www.highaltitudebball.com

Got Relationships?

2009-05-18T20:07:00.001-07:00

What makes a successful Personal Trainer?

Relationships.

I love what I do, I believe that I became a trainer to meet people and have a relationships built upon their overall health and well being. I love my clients and I want them to succeed. I believe in them. TO the Athletes I work with I wish the opportunity to shine and contribute to your success on and off the playing surface.

The ability to not only understand the exercise or the program but the relationship built within the client and trainer session. Granted It takes a full knowledge of the science of training and the ability to "teach" this ability to motivate,comfort,educate,support etc. Sounds very cliche, "A personal trainer/support system" . When I was training, playing basketball I loved the creativity of the coach, trainer etc to get the most out of me, its ovbious they created a relationship.

However there are few and far rleationships to come by in the day of instant resuluts and 8 pack abs, hgh (See baseball circa-1998-2009) and other social issues,socially economic, etc, have tarnished a industry of service on over expectations and misconceptions about training and performance.

Performance-Goes without saying, results count.

Building a personal relationship(see personal in the job title) with clients.

The training is the science, the relationship between athlete and trainer the ART

Get Well!!!! Wayne Nash- Ast Coach Carson High School-

http://rgj.com/article/20090516/NEWS/905150452/Good+Samaritan+recovering+from+gunshot+wound

This blog is in no way intended to discredit the industry only strengthen it

Holiday Handles Basketball Camp 09

2009-05-13T09:51:00.000-07:00

TWITTER

2009-04-25T17:11:00.000-07:00

We are now on twitter...Web Site Launching soon!!!!

http://twitter.com/EliteProNV

High Altitude Basketball Camp GOES green!! July 6th-10th

2009-04-23T13:02:00.000-07:00

High Altitude Basketball Camp is proud to partner with Envirolution in an effort to

curb the environmental impact of our basketball camp and to use it as an educational

opportunity for the camp attendees. Envirolution will put together a “Green Team” of

local youth to assist High Altitude Basketball Camp in these efforts and will ensure that

we consider the environment at every level of the camp. The services Envirolution will

provide include:

Carbon Footprint of entire camp

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Paperless Marketing (where possible and all recycled paper if necessary)

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Provide Water Bottles for the week

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Camp carpools

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Organic Cotton camp t-shirts

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Green plate and silverware

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Recycling bins

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Composting bins

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Gatorade Re-fill posts

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The Next Generation of Sustainability

LIVE IT

LEAD IT

Killer Mentality...

2009-04-20T08:20:00.000-07:00

Watching the NBA playoffs this weekend, I started asking myself what makes a good NBA player Great. Some would argue Lebron is a genetic wonder and guys like Kobe and Michael Jordan where born to fly. However watching the careers of such phenomenal players I have come to see the "killer instinct" that the great ones have. I think of the amount of motivation these athletes have to have in order to make themselves and teammates rise to the moment constantly is what separates the Kwame Browns from the Bill Russels of the world. I would argue that Kwame is a better physical specimen then Russell however lacked the leadership and ability to motivate himself to reach his full potential. The question is can the average athlete become great based on certain intangibles? This question can only be answered within.

As a personal trainer it is a responsibility to form a relationship with the athlete and learn what motivates them individually. However, I have seen athletes going through the motions in the off season without that chip on their shoulder that internal fire that all levels of basketball players need, the valuable asset of mental toughness and the will to fail and fail and rise and rise. We are so caught up on not wanting to stand out for failing that we fail to reach or potential.

Its early in the off season.

What is your motivation?

2009-04-09T10:30:00.000-07:00

Warm Up 2.0 Inch Wurm w/basketBall

2009-04-09T09:51:00.000-07:00

Advanced dynamic warmup stretch. Brought to you by EliteProPerformance trainer Mike Atkinson.

ARE YOU ELITE?

This is for trained athletes Only!

Keys:

1. Core Strength

2. Flexibilty

3. Stability

High Knee with Catch to bull hop

2009-03-28T10:47:00.000-07:00

Florida, 640 Fox Sports Radio

2009-02-20T05:12:00.000-08:00

I travel all over the country, this trip has been a vay-kay of some sorts. As I travel I always seem to meet the most interesting people, connections and unique sitiations. This trip I ended up on a Radio program for the greater Southern Florida area. The guests on the show where Former Professional Footbal Player, Lorenzo White and former Heavy Weight Champion of the World Shannon Briggs. Needless to say I was a little out of my league from a career stand point however I was the most entertaining. The Host Jeff who has been a Radio Perosnality for a long time in South Florida was very intriuged by the life of a Washington General and wants to do a follow up interview at some point. It was a blast to be on the air and get to hang with some all time greats and talk shop, I look forward to the follow up and coming back to the Ocean Manor Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

I will be back in Reno, NV for personal training at Sierra Strength and Speed on Sunday and am already getting texts and calls from High School Players eager to start their off season workouts.

Are You ELite?

http://www.eliteproperformance.com/

Sheryl Swoopes, "Swoopes Hoops Camp"

2009-02-11T09:39:00.000-08:00

Elite Pro Performance presents:

Swoopes Hoops Camp March 30th- April 3rd, 2009 at Cascade High School in Everett, Washington. Sheryl Swoopes the three time WNBA MVP, and Olympic Gold Medalist, will be hosting a series of basketball camps for athletes grade 3-12th, interested in improving their game and learning from one of the all time greats starting in spring of 09.

Sheryl Swoopes has chosen Elite Pro Performance to format and direct all Swoopes Hoops Camp’s, Elite Pro Performance is a sports network of some of the nations most qualified and cutting edge instructors and sports specialists. Swoopes Hoops Camp is looking for young athletes seeking to improve shooting, ball-handling, footwork, coordination, individual and injury prevention skills with five days of intensive instruction and competition by Elite Pro Performance.

When: March 30- April 3, 2009, 9am-4pm
Where: Cascade High School, Everett, WA
WHO: FEMALES GRADES 3rd-12th grade
Cost: $195.00 Includes T-Shirt

DIRECT LINK

Limited to 120 Participants!
Register www.EliteProPerformance.com

Quote of Week, 1/27/09

2009-01-27T13:46:00.000-08:00

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Elite Pro Performance presents" Swoopes Hoops Series" Sheryl Swoopes

2009-01-27T13:11:00.000-08:00

Sheryl Swoopes of the Seattle Storm, a three time WNBA MVP, Three Time Gold Medalist often called the "Michael Jordan" of womens Basketball will be hosting a camp series with Elite Pro Performance for the Spring and Summer of 09. The camp format will be up soon, all levels of players are encouraged to attend. Sheryl is very excited to work with the Seattle area youth and puts her upmost confidence in Elite Pro Performance to format the camp to her Gold Medal Standards, The only question Left is "ARE YOU ELITE?

"SWOOPES HOOPS CAMP"

CASCADE HIGH SCHOOL, EVERETT, WA

MARCH 30TH-APRIL 3RD

* MALES & FEMALES 4TH-12TH GRADE*

REGISTRATION OPENS FEB 9TH

limited to 120 participants!!!

http://www.eliteproperformance.com/

ACL Tears Common amongst Female Athletes, RGJ.com

2009-01-19T16:11:00.001-08:00

Jordan Rogers was coming off a screen during a summer practice with her club team when she jump stopped, and felt a stretch in her left knee.
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Suddenly she was sprawled out on the court.
Rogers did not hear or feel a pop, the tell-tale sign she had torn her anterior cruciate ligament. But she knew.
"It was the same stretch feeling as the first time," said the Spanish Springs senior.
Rogers tore the ACL in her right knee, and both meniscus muscles, her freshman year while at Reed. This time it was just one meniscus, along with the ACL in her other knee.
"It just gave out on me, both times," Rogers said.
She is not alone.
The most common age group for ACL injuries is 14 to 20, said Randy Jacobe of Nevada Physical Therapy, and 70 percent are non-contact injuries. An ACL tear does not repair itself. Reconstructive surgery, while effective, is costly and typically sidelines the athlete for six to nine months.
Furthermore, female athletes are up to eight times more likely to suffer ACL injuries than males, and studies have found one in every 50 to 100 female high school athletes and one in 10 Division I college athletes will tear an ACL.
"You don't see the braces with the boys like you do the girls, especially these last couple years," Reed girls basketball coach Sara Schopper said. "It's amazing to me how (girls) knees are a little bit weaker."
Weaker may not be the right word. The bodies of males and females are different, and research has shown there is an effect on the knee.
Hormones play a role, and it has been determined that women have a straighter knee when performing certain maneuvers in running and cutting than men, who tend to have more bend in their knees. Additional factors that place more of a strain on a woman's knee include a straighter hip and slightly more outward deviation in the knee joint.
One finding from research specific to these gender differences is that women tend to activate their hamstring significantly less than men during some typical athletic maneuvers.
Is there prevention?
All of this information, though, is not new -- a 1995 article in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found NCAA women's basketball players were four times more likely to tear an ACL than their male counterparts -- even if Northern Nevada has been hit by a rash of such injuries this year.
Besides Rogers, Reed's Micha Walker, Elko's Cierra Dunbar and most recently Yerington's Karrie-Ann Quartz have suffered serious knee injuries. Rogers, Dunbar and Quartz are done for the season; Walker is just returning to action after undergoing surgery in August.
The injuries have drastically altered the basketball landscape, and have led some coaches and parents to look deeper into preventative measures.
"I don't know why or what you can do," Schopper said.
Spanish Springs coach Christine Eckles has long encouraged her players to join the school's athletics weight class to help prevent all types of injury.
The University of Nevada implemented an ACL-injury prevention program last year. The offseason program focuses on the soccer, and women's basketball and volleyball teams, and aims to strengthen the muscles around the knee.
"We're trying to retrain the body on how to jump and land properly," said Shelly Germann, interim director of sports medicine. "We did not have one serious knee injury in soccer this year. That says something."
According to Dr. Thomas Haverbush, a Michigan orthopedic surgeon, the 2,200 ACL injuries suffered by female college athletes each year ran a reconstructing and rehabilitating bill of more than $44 million.
A training program developed at the University of Vermont Medical School designed to help prevent ACL injuries in skiers demonstrated a 69 percent decrease in injuries among ski patrol personnel and instructors who received the training compared to those who did not. Females who took part had injury levels equal to or only one to two times higher than their male counterparts.
Focus on strength
There are other nationally recognized programs that high school athletes can use.
Holly Silvers and her colleagues at the Santa Monica Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation developed a program called "PEP" -- prevent injury, enhance performance. Recent research published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine shows PEP can dramatically reduce ACL injuries in female athletes.
"We saw injury reduction of 74 percent to 88 percent," Silvers said of one study involving soccer players between the ages of 14 and 18.
Jacobe has implemented aspects of the PEP program into his work with Walker, Wolf Pack athletes and others.
"We can't change anatomy, that uncontrollable risk factor," said Jacobe, who worked with Germann to develop the prevention program at Nevada. "But what we can change is the poor strength through the core."
Female athletes tend to overdevelop their quads, Jacobe said, which stresses the ACL. But women can counteract the problem by learning to use their hamstrings, abdominals, gluteal muscles and calves more in jumping and landing.
There was a reduction in the ratio of knee ligament injuries in female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times higher when athletes in a Cincinnati study were trained to rely more on their hamstring muscles than their quadriceps, Dr. Haverbush reported.
"When there is a weakness in the core, then the leg dives in and you go into the knock-kneed position," Jacobe said. "You have to be strong everywhere."
After determining that warm-up and workout programs aimed at prevention are successful, Silvers said the next frontier is to look at prepubescent girls.
"We want to study the true mechanism of the injury," she said. "Can we 'vaccinate' 8, 9, 10 year olds, and keep them from developing bad habits and mechanics?"

Quote of week Jan 19th,

2009-01-19T15:42:00.000-08:00

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.--

Tim Duncan

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Squaw Valley HIGH ALTITUDE BASKETBALL CAMP

2009-01-09T16:44:00.000-08:00

2nd Annual High Altitude, the signature Resort Basketball Camp Expirience. Its is going to be the best event yet. Stay posted for updates on blog and web site. www.highaltitudebasketball.com

Best Camp in the Northern Nevada/ California

Close to Reno,NV and Sacramento CA

3-12th grade

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Sparks NV basketball camp, Elite Pro Performance

2009-01-03T22:55:00.000-08:00

3rd Annual Sparks NV Holiday Handles !!!

2009-01-03T21:48:00.000-08:00

What a great camp! We had 70 participants for the four day camp at the Sparks YMCA in SParks NV. I want to thank the SParks YBA for their participation and for having a facility to coach in. Also would like to thank MAtt Williams Dir. Of Jam On it Basketball for the wed program it was a pleasure to see him in the gym getting the kids to go hard and he put on a footwork clinic that I was highly impressed by.

ALex Gamboa former Yale Point Guard and Elite Pro Performance Regional Dir. did a great job in his first camp with the title.

Going into the New Year ELite Pro Performance will become a national Leader in Camps and Clinics. The only Question is "Are YOU ELITE?"

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Coach Maurer

2008-12-23T20:59:00.000-08:00

BY MIKE HOUSER

THIS is where im from.....

Appeal Sports Writer

"'Hoosiers don't simply enjoy basketball, they're consumed by it; basketball is their lifeblood."

- Kurt Vonnegut

RENO - Forget about welcome to the jungle, baby, welcome to Galena boys basketball coach and Carson City resident Tom Maurer's "Cave."

There is no confusing Maurer's de facto domicile with the high school's gymnasium, which is also called "The Cave." In fact, there is no comparison whatsoever. The roughly 9 x 9-foot office at Galena High School - the 46-year-old Maurer's home away from home - contains far more basketball-related memorabilia than a mere gym could ever hold.

Call it the Tower of Maurer, a veritable basketball Wailing Wall where every available inch of space - floor to ceiling - is jammed full of paper of some kind. Instead of prayers, there are newspaper clippings, box scores, scouting reports and photographs that testify to Maurer's all-consuming passion for his Holy Trinity of basketball, family and teaching special education students.

Along with a pair of impossibly comfortable black chairs that would make Dr. Evil or a member of SPECTRE envious, Maurer's lair contains a desk, television and VCR, mini-refrigerator, wall-to-wall video tapes of game film and a library of binders full of old scouting reports, all of which are dominated by a master schedule/calendar.

Not that Maurer, who hails from Gary, Ind. - Hoosier land itself - is consumed by basketball or anything like that. Doesn't everybody have a basketball court outlined in masking tape on his office floor, with the caps of Magic Markers lined up to represent players while doing a little X-ing and O-ing?

On Feb. 13, the night before his Grizzlies will end their season with a loss to Douglas in the semifinal round of the NIAA Northern 4A Regional Championships, Maurer is in the midst of game-planning before the two-hour practice that precedes the one-hour film session.

He removes the three rows of carefully prepared and condensed scouting reports from his tape basketball court so that a pair of visitors can make themselves at home in this ultimate man-cave, which is under the watchful eye of Indiana coaching legend Bob Knight, who looks down from his autographed picture on the fridge, where UCLA coach Bob Wooden's pyramid of success is also mounted.

GARY

Maurer's Cave tells a lifetime full of stories, but it takes the coach himself to fill in the details of his formative years.

Maurer, who is of Polish and German descent, grew up in the Polish-Italian section of Gary, once a Midwestern melting pot that revolved around the area's formerly abundant steel mills.

His father, Bill, worked in the steel mills for 45 years, before dying of a heart attack. Maurer - the youngst of five siblings - said his father never took an interest in athletic endeavors, but his oldest brother Bob (Maurer had two older brothers and two older sisters), who was drafted by the New York Yankees, played a role in his life that still affects him and his philosophy to this day.

"He was a true sport athlete," Maurer said of Bob, who along with his 88-year-old mother, Virginia, lives in Lewiston, Idaho. "I feel like big brothers always teach the values of life. If a kid is mentally tough, he usually has a big brother. I call it the 'Big Brother Theory.'"

But Gary is known for more than being a steel mill town: It's also the murder capital of the United States. Maurer's other brother, Will, and his cousin, Mark, were shot to death and his oldest sister, Carol, was killed by a drunk driver. (His other sister, Phyllis, is still alive.)

Maurer, who said his family was robbed every Halloween in spite of moving several times, was shot in the left knee during a drive-by.

Maurer attended Highland High School in Gary, where he was a two-sport athlete. He was a 5-foot-6 point guard - the only sophomore to ever make varsity - and a left fielder.

It was baseball that got Maurer out of Gary - at least for a while. He went to Northern Idaho Junior College, but tore a muscle in his right arm. Then it was on to Indiana, where he received in-state tuition and graduated in 1987 with a degree in special education.

"It's always been my passion to help exceptional children - severely handicapped, emotionally handicapped, health impaired and learning disabled," said Maurer, who is the special education and site facilitator at Galena.

SPECIAL PEOPLE

While at Indiana, Maurer made three acquaintances that would forever change his life: He met his future wife, Dianne, current IU assistant coach Dan Dakich and Bob Knight himself.

Maurer married Dianne, a former gymnast who also attended Highland (they never met in high school), in 1984 and took his first coaching job in Kooskia, Idaho, where he guided his team to more victories in the 1987-88 season (five) than it had in its previous five years.

"I just wanted to get out of Gary really bad," he said. "My wife moved to Kooskia at Christmastime, but she said if she didn't see a mall in five minutes, she'd divorce me."

So it was on to Carson City, where he's lived ever since. He landed the coaching job at Carson Middle School (then Carson Junior High), where his teams compiled a five-year record of 231-45, an 84-percent winning percentage.

Thanks to Dakich, Maurer seized the opportunity to work in Knight's summer basketball camps for 12 years, where he watched the NCAA's all-time winningest coach at work for five weeks a year, and for several years traveled back and forth from Carson to Indiana.

Knight and Maurer never grew close, but one day the coach asked Maurer when he would get a real job. And - thanks in part to Knight - he finally did.

MAURER POWER

"Hoosiers talk basketball for an hour after they're dead and have stopped breathing."

- K.V.

Galena opened its doors in 1992 and Maurer saw his dream job open up.

"Coach Knight called the office and asked to speak to the principal, Jackie Jones," Maurer said. "She didn't know who he was. He said, 'Give me the (expletive) vice-principal (Ross McCumber)'. Two days later, I got an interview."

Along with giant magnet team shots of all his Grizzly teams over the last 16 seasons - none of which include his photo ("Those are the kids that earned it. I'm just a teacher. I'm not part of the team.") - there is a year-by-year breakdown of Maurer's coaching record at Galena (he is 282-198 overall).

His team has won seven High Desert League championships, seven regional titles and last year the Grizz took its first-ever state championship.

There is one title that has eluded Maurer, however: He has never been selected by his fellow coaches as Coach of the Year.

"Isn't that funny," said Foothill coach and former University of Nevada point guard Kevin Soares (1988-92), who assisted Maurer in the 1992-93 season. "I think what happened is a lot of coaches have animosity because he does things for kids and has had so much success. A couple of coaches are jealous. There's no other way to put it.

"I think he does an excellent job. I consider him the best high school coach in the state. Galena is the best prepared team in the state. He does it the right way. He does it for the kids. The kids come back to help him on the staff. That ought to tell you something about him."

Assistant coach Doug Cordova is one of those players who have come back to help Maurer. Cordova, who played for Galena from 1995-98, also lived with Maurer when he was a student.

"He is like a father to me," Cordova said. "He guides me. One thing I like about him and why I stick around is that he's open to anything. He's never done learning. He gets better each year."

MAURER RULES

The power that is Maurer is part Knight, part street smarts and part self-motivator.

"It was nice to get that Indiana, Bob Knight integrity into me," he said. "I've seen the other side of life and it's no way to live. Education is the most important thing to being successful. Knight is a believer in self-discipline. There has to be consequences when you do something wrong. You can't get something for nothing."

To show he walks the walk, Maurer went from a rotund 210 pounds to a toned 155.

After telling the joke that he got tired of Dianne saying he was "fat, bald and stupid," he said he was trying to prove to his players the value of mental toughness. Instead of going to his hotel room after a series of games in 100-degree Modesto, he'll go four miles on a treadmill and eat low-fat food.

Leading by example - that's something Maurer, who has two children - believes parents should do.

"There are a lot of great parents out there," he said. "But a lot of parents don't allow their kids to speak for themselves. They don't teach them any responsibility skills by teaching them to listen.

"You hear and you listen. To hear means it's in one ear and out the other. To listen means you get it, you learn to do it."

Maurer doesn't allow his players' parents to e-mail him. They have to go through their son first to meet with him.

"I teach my kids the same thing," he said. "I teach them to shake their coach's hand and thank him for his time. That teaches them to be responsible, speak for themselves and to listen."

OBSESSION

So what you call a guy who names his two sons Trey Utah Mo Maurer and Ty Basketball Jones Maurer ("Two days after he was born, Social Security called me up and asked if it was true. I said, 'Absolutely'")?

Well, he's the type of guy who spends every spare minute traveling to schools like Indiana, Georgetown, Illinois, Gonzaga, Kansas and UCLA - among others - to learn all he can about the sport he loves so that he can teach it to others.

He's the type of guy who uses the bathroom light in UCLA's locker room to take notes on Bruins coach Ben Howland's lecture during film - and then have his cell phone go off playing the Indiana fight song.

He's the type of guy taking his team all around the country to play nationally ranked teams so that adversity can forge a stronger player.

And he's the type of guy that will tell you that Newsweek ranked Galena No. 504 academically (no other Nevada school ranked that high), a public school with 1,400 kids competing with prep schools.

Call him whatever you want; he's heard it all already.

WHEN THE SEASON'S OVER

There may be some people who are glad Maurer's Grizzlies came up short to Douglas. There may be some that are clicking their heels because he'll graduate nine seniors, including 6-foot-8 phenom and Nevada signee Luke Babbitt.

But in Maurer's mind, there's always next season, which gives him a chance to teach even more.

"I hope they think I get players," said Maurer, who also coaches fourth-and fifth-graders at the Reno-Sparks Boys & Girls Club. "Neither Luke Babbitt nor anybody else who came in is a true basketball player. You have to make them true basketball players. Nobody has figured out Galena's basketball success.

"I have the ideal job. I work with handicapped kids and I work with high school basketball players who aren't touched by shoe companies. I get to work with Galena kids as much as they want to be worked with."

Maurer, who said he had a chance to begin coaching at Youngstown State when he was 24 but turned it down because of job-security issues, said he's going to remain at Galena through 2016, so that he can coach his own boys.

"Then I'll get a job as a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines," he deadpanned. "It's a great airline. I'll get to wear my shorts."

Oh, and one last thought for his detractors.

"I can't wait to prove them wrong next year," he said.

Soon - very soon - the door to Maurer's Cave will close and the sign that reads "MAURER LOCKDOWN, FILM SESSION, EMERGENCY ONLY" will be swinging on the doorknob.

QUote of Week 12/15 08

2008-12-16T11:52:00.000-08:00

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief.
-- James Naismith

HOLIDAY HANDLES OO BABY!!!!!!!!

2008-12-04T11:43:00.000-08:00

Sparks Family YMCA, 3rd Annual Holiday Handles
Sparks, Nev. (TBD) – Spark’s Family YMCA presents Holiday Handles Basketball Camp, Offering two sessions Dec 22 – 24, 2008 and Dec 29-31 2008, at the Sparks Family. Holiday Handles Basketball Camp provides young athletes seeking to improve ball-handling, footwork, coordination, individual and injury prevention skills with 3 days of intensive instruction and competition

Holiday Handles Basketball Camp Pricing
• Who: Half day camp (9-12pm) for 1-3rd grade; Full day camp (9-4pm) for 4th -8th grade. Registration will be limited so hurry in to get registered.
• When: December 22-24th and December 29-31st; Camps will end at 2pm on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.
• Program Cost: Half Day Camp is $65 per child $50 for YBA Participant.
Full Day Camp is $100 per child $85 for YBA Participant; $50 for second sibling.
• Where: Camp will be held at the Sparks YMCA Family Center Gymnasium.

Director: Mike Atkinson A.C.E CPT, EliteProPerformance.com
matkinson@eliteproperformance.com

Teams: Team pricing is available; please call 775-342-7333 for more information.

To register for the Holiday Handles Basketball Camp at the Sparks Family YMCA please contact for more Information contact:

Brian Sundeen - Sparks
(775) 323-9622 ext 1240
bsundeen@ymcasierra.org
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Quote of Week 11/24/08

2008-11-24T13:34:00.000-08:00

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
-- Scottie Pippen

Atkinson not the typical JC player,

2008-11-22T14:39:00.000-08:00

Below is an article that was written on me in Junior College. When this article first came out I was really angry at the writer. I thought it would isolate me from my teammates. (My teammates were indefferent) Discussing my financial situation and family situation, In a culture were Finances are not a typical topic for a sports writer on a college athelete. Over the years my career had taken a crazy path, i look back at this article and realize that its all true. You cant help where your from or what advantages or disadvantages physically socially, economically you may have. We all are teamates in a game called life, basketball has no boundaries, I have met more people from every background possible in this game and you know what we all had in common, Basketball. Sport reveals mans need to compete and to work together to achieve goals. I love the game for that reason alone.

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When I started this blog it is intended to give atheletes a resource and tell them my story. Read the article and the next one i post will leave you smiling.(Written 3years apart!)
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Atkinson not the typical JC player
Joe Curley, jcurley@insidevc.com Tuesday, February 11, 2003

It's not just the floppy blond hair and eagerness to involve his teammates that distinguishes Mike Atkinson from most of his out-of-state California community college brethren.
While many of the urban outsiders that pepper California rosters come west to forget pasts intertwined with all the symptoms of an underprivileged upbringing -- like hunger, drugs or gangs -- the 6-foot-4 Reno, Nev., product comes from money, which qualifies as a skeleton in the closet when you spend your Saturday nights playing the city's game with urban offspring.

"I wouldn't like to say I'm from a higher class or anything," said Atkinson. "I'd say my parents make a good living. I've never felt uncomfortable about that. I'd say I fit in pretty well."

As much as he would like it to be otherwise, he is a very different JC basketball player.

A significant portion of his teammates and opponents live from check to check on financial aid. Atkinson pays the $650 monthly rent for his Simi Valley apartment by liquidating his stock portfolio. Most out-of-state players know the impotent feeling of living in California without a car. Atkinson paid for his 2000 Dodge Durango out of his own pocket.

He spent the first 10 years of his life with a successful entrepreneur for a stepfather, living in a 6,300-square foot mansion that included 21/2 acres of grounds, tennis courts and lake access in a private community outside Reno. Although his psychotherapist mother is remarried, to a dentist in a 4,800- square mountaintop homestead that overlooks the city, Mike bears Charles Atkinson's surname and considers him his father.

Yet he has made his choice, spurning other life paths to play basketball against players for whom there were no shiny alternatives.

"If he didn't have this love for basketball, he'd be at a four-year institution," said Atkinson's mother, Donna Hamilton.

Somehow the game reached past individual-based sports of the upper class, like tennis and squash (the loves of his stepfather), and gripped him. His first word was ball. At 4 years old, he started playing basketball at a local YMCA after his grandmother fabricated his age. A year later, he told his mother he wanted to be a Harlem Globetrotter.He was selected to take part in his school system's program for gifted students, but used most of his creativity on the court. He developed into a refined, if undersized, post performer in a structured, winning program at Galena High, where he played in three Nevada state title games. When he disappointed in front of college coaches at an important tournament, he returned home to shoot for hours on a school night in the freezing mountain air.

"Maybe his natural, genetic ability isn't great," said Hamilton, "but his desire and his heart is."

Making his teammates better became the most important thing in his life. When no scholarship offers came, he elected to continue playing at the only level available to him.

At Moorpark, he has made himself into the best 6-foot-4 center possible, averaging 8.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game while taking every loss like he would a cyanide pill.

"Whenever anybody watches him, you hear the same thing, 'God, I love your No. 22,' " said Moorpark head coach Remy McCarthy. "It's because he does everything he can for us. He gets by more with his heart and his head than his athleticism."

Knowing a team is made up of more than simply five scorers, several four-year programs have shown interest in giving Atkinson the scholarship for which he has detoured his life. When he accepts, he will do so with the knowledge that he earned it on his own, without any advantage at birth.

"Basketball is Mike's spiritual path," said Hamilton. "Instead of being on a mountain somewhere, he uses basketball to go beyond color and beyond socioeconomic groups. It's his way of telling his teammates, 'We are the same.' "

Quote of Week

2008-11-17T12:57:00.001-08:00

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
-- Larry Bird

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Sierra Strength And Speed

2008-11-12T17:14:00.000-08:00

(Reno, NV)
Winter is approaching I am currently in Reno Training at Sierra Strength and Speed. Right now we have a mixture of athletes training for their basketball School seasons and a group of Pro baseball players have their off season routines in full force as well. The gym is in full swing with Youth Developement classes and Personal Training for sking,Golf and other activities.

I love working with local athletes and take pride in being part of Northern Nevadas finest athletic Performance and Personal Trainig Facility at Sierra Strength and Speed.

Remember any trainer can make you soar, can they fix you? Prevent you from injury? Re Evaluate the way you train.

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Request a Date Filling up!!!
Basketball Camps, Oaklahoma, WA,CA,NV

Quote of the Week

2008-11-12T16:40:00.001-08:00

"Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball".

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-Phil Jackson

Drill for Lateral Movement/COmbo into Corssover

2008-11-05T13:11:00.000-08:00

3 Keys to Drill:

Foot contact Toe toward shin
Stay Tall running form
Crossover Step high and tight with knee

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Quote of Week

2008-11-03T09:18:00.000-08:00

" THE SWEATY PLAYERS IN THE GAME OF LIFE ALWAYS HAVE MORE FUN THAN THE SUPERCILIOUS SPECTATOTRS."

William Feather

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Twist Video

2008-10-26T09:00:00.001-07:00

The point of this blog is to provide resources for athletes and coaches.. Here is another great video on the web by "Twist ". Respect in the field of training :Elite Pro Performance our new Launch of 09 schedule is coming...

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http://www.viddler.com/explore/twistsports/videos/1/

Back in Reno, Pre Season Tips

2008-10-20T09:35:00.001-07:00

Its my first full week back since training in Hawaii, with the leaves turning color and the air beginning to chill, we see basketball season on the horizon. Many of the Basketball players I work with train twice a week with me on various programs for Strength Speed and Agility, while working with their respective AAU teams and High School programs on the court. I have a tremendous pride in the athletes that train with us locally and hope that all the players we worked with in other parts of the country are working diligently to prepare for the season approaching.

Few Tips for Preseason training

KEEP using the Dynamic Warm up, so often I ask athletes did you warm up?( 9 out of 10 time not really)

Intake of Calories, A car does not run without gas are you a Benz or a Bicycle???EAT!!!

Incorporate one day of recovery into your schedule regardless if its active or not. We can not lose quality for Quantity.

Has anyone seen that new Nike commercial with the little Ladanian Tomlinson and Troy Polamalu tearing it up in the backyard and house and through their careers to the pros with Jay Z beat??
Reminds me of what it takes to become a great player you got to love it and imagine the outcome you want and work for it every second you can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U719csMdojk

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Maui Pics More to Come

2008-10-15T17:41:00.001-07:00

Pics From Maui Civic Center

2008-10-15T17:41:00.000-07:00

Maui Basketball and Sunsets

2008-10-15T17:13:00.001-07:00

Throughout my basketball carreer I have been fortunate to have travled and entertained fans all over the world well now I find myslef traveling all over the country traning the youth of America.

I Just returned from Maui Hawaii, I was given the opprutunity to work with a High School from Lahina, Lahinaluna H.S the School is the "Oldest this side of the Mississippi" a school so rich in tradition that it has dorm rooms for the traditioned students to travel and live in. However traditon rich it was the school does not have aenough money to support its sports programs and struggles to supply shoes for the players who come from lower cconomic conditions in High Inflated Hawaii. I was blessed to be invited over to work with a independent parent who wants something to change in the culture for the youth program and build a sports program as rich as the tradition itself.

I trained 30 boys and girls all JV and Varsity players for 2 days over 6 hours and loved every minute of it. The Next few blogs will be about the trip and the kids.

Mahalo!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to Game Speed Training Blog

2008-10-15T16:15:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Game Speed Training Blog, Sponsored By Elite Pro Performance. This blog was created with the intent to give Athletes coaches and trainers a resource for their training during the season as well as the off Season but to limit it to that would be unfair and unjust.

My name is Mike Atkinson I am a Certified Personal trainer I specialize in Individual player development, I have been all over the country working with the Youth of America, Coaches,College and Pros Athletes and along side with some of the best in the field of training and the game of Basketball. You will hear more about me later.

This blog will give out Praise to the people who deserve respect and for the resources they are. I'm surrounded by professionals in there respected fields I'm well versed in the game of basketball and feel as though this combination makes for an entertaining blog.

"Are You Elite?"

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