Rich Clarke

Here is the outcome of my 10-year journey in the Change of Direction and Agility Space Want to impact performance and reduce ACL injury risk? Here you go:

@Tony_Villani_ I love how that comment isnt the flex they think it might be! 😂

Or looks like he is trying to hit top speed. A HUGE difference in the game of football and many sports.

@Tony_Villani_ Big BW diff between these guys?

I was lucky enough to train BOTH these GREAT RBs for the NFL Combine. Both ran 4.3s. Pacheco shocked everyone with it. Gibbs did not. Was like a walk in the park. But why you ask? We have answers.

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@SimonBrundish 😂😂

Good job, dick of a title

@SimonBrundish Long form pre-recorded content Multiple choice exams/workbooks Litte staff contact All becoming more the norm!

We were at a too Uni last week for an offer day, the prof proudly espoused how good their ast:phys course will be next year because there adding 18% supervised exams Lola has been through Law without one single in person test and an average of 3.5 hours of contact time a week Universities are pimped up property companies

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@Joe_Eisenmann As university finances become tighter As the world moves more and more digital and institutions lack the models to adapt to it The product will continue to suffer, as will the student outcome and ROI

👇The $tate of Higher Ed (sadly, very sadly)

This is ace

@brianmccormick Would struggle to come up with a less athletic way to move laterally

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Biomechanical Research Conclusions ≠ Our Coaching Focus Stop the basic description of positions. Its low order thinking and low impact

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People go over "sprint" positioning and postures all the time. Yet when we do the same for COD, people scream from the mountain tops "That's not agility training." We know that. We are just practicing like anyone would any other skill.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth. - Marcus Aurelius

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My philosophy has simplified over the years. 1) #GetFASTfast first 2) Learn to be "first" to be fast 3) Apply appropriate Game Speeds and what this means 4) Change directions A to B as efficient and fast as possible 5) Change directions other applicable ways. Much more ....

If you’re under 30 and have no responsibilities, I recommend working as many hours per week as humanly possible. You’ll never be able to work this hard again. And the compounding effects of a few years can set up your life for decades.

@brianmccormick Not in the slightest surprised. Same in all sports, missed opportunities for information or skill development, training more focussed on exposure than anything that has a coordination benefit. "Just go to that line or around that cone and come back 8 times"

@RICH_AgilityLab I watched sprints like this with an NBA Head Coach and asked if he noticed anything. Nothing. He asked his performance staff. Nothing. It didn't even occur to them that there were two directions players can turn to change directions. They're just looking at making specific times.

People seem to be missing 2 things: 1) NCAA restricts practice w/🏀. This likely is S&C session, not basketball practice. They can't use a 🏀. 2) My point is about teaching movement within S&C, not just running sprints. See 2011 BSMPG presentation: youtube.com/watch?v=iI1aqv…

@brianmccormick 100% with this, we talk lots about movement skills in the gym, and then T&F has made us mad about sprint mechanics, but almost all other movement is simply used as a mode of conditioning or just dosed as exposire. We are very poor at skill acquisition

Presentation was not specific to change of direction specifically, but the theme of my presentation was S&C should include teaching movement skills, not just bigger, faster, stronger. Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQrUn…