
Adopting a child from Ethiopia changed David French's perspective on the state of racism in America. From our new episode with @davidafrench.
Corbin Baird
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Adopting a child from Ethiopia changed David French's perspective on the state of racism in America. From our new episode with @davidafrench.












I know I sound like a lunatic with this stuff... But here's some of the questions I've been battling as I'm going through these workouts. - Do you own the position? I mean really. Do you say you own it but then when you actually try something it falls apart within 30s? That doesn't make you a bad person. It doesn't make you a failure. It doesn't mean you suck or you'll never be good enough. It's a really simple skill issue. Which should be fantastic news to every coach because our whole career is teaching new skills and making existing ones better. If you can't hold a lunge for 30s on each leg, I feel like getting to that baseline is more important than making you go run. Because if you can't hold yourself up for 30s in perfect position what makes me think you can hold yourself in any kind of good form while running? You're magically going to be coordinated now while you are moving?🤔 I don't think so. If you see something in practice that you don't like, are you going to blame that kid, their parents, their genetics, their effort, their potential, and their attitude? Or are you going to try to fix the problem? Oh that's right! That's our job as coaches! It can be an ankle problem, a collapsing foot/ navicular drop in gait, long backside mechanics with their hamstrings. I don't really care. Are you going to say it's fine that's just Sheila or that's just how Todd runs or are you going to get them to the point where they own the position? Shouldn't everyone on your team own the positions of human movement? At a bare minimum the positions of their sport? It's not complicated. It requires no weight room. It takes no time. It's something everyone should be able to do and if they can't that's their #1 priority before we make them try to do something they can't and put them in danger. It can be a lunge, a pushup, a standing glute ham, a scap pullups, a wallsit. We should own these for at least a minute right? 30s for sure. Isn't that the responsible thing to do? Make sure we can control ourselves for 30s? If we can't what makes us think we can go play sports and be safe let alone good...











