Functional Path Training: The Berlin Wall

The Functional Path is a path that had been traveled many times before but had fallen out of use in favor of smoother paved roads that promised faster and easier results. Seeking to follow and better define the functional path is a continuing journey, fortunately it is a journey that many have traveled before. Functional Path training is getting back to the basics of movement. It is learning to tune into the body and it’s inherent wisdom to produce rhythmic flowing movement.

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GAIN Apprentorship

Coaching athletic development from design to implementation

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The mission of this program is to develop a cadre of experts to define the field of Athletic Development by educating professionals in foundational principles and methodology. Apprentorship = Apprenticeship + Mentorship, combines the features of both into a unique interactive blend of theory and practice in a five-day residential coaching school. This is an opportunity to observe, question, and explore the application of the Gambetta Method - Systematic Sport Development Model of training and injury rehabilitation.

November 10, 2009

The Berlin Wall

Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall is a symbol of oppression, brutality, thought control and misguided leadership. In sport it created an aura of the unknown and invincibility of the athletes behind the wall. I remember being at the IAAF Conference Techniques in Athletes in Cologne Germany in 1990, it was the first time that that the eastern bloc coaches especially the East Germans and Soviets were free to talk openly and mix without the Stasi or KGB trailing them. What a site and what an experience. The picture is a section of the wall at Rice University in front of the Baker Center. Since I was never able to visit the wall, I though a picture of me standing with a section of the wall would be appropriate. I see this section of the wall as a symbol that should remind us both geopolitically and in sport of the perils group think and demagoguery.