Go where the money's at!

[Maximo]

I know coach Sonnon has work with Pro Hockey teams. What I would like to see, maybe I'll do this my self, I would like to see someone take a group of football players and just teach them how to flat out hit. I know this stuff works. I've seen it work in kids I've coached in wrestling. They go out for the football team and it seems like there at a whole other levle than most of the kids because they aren't scared of contact.
My challenge to myself and the rest of the group is to try to get football players, highschool, college, semi Pro, Pro, Pop warner, what ever and teach these folks how to hit. This is big money. Because there is nothing more need in football today than a great tackle that isn't always on Injured reserve. So if someone would like to start this project with me. Hit me up.

Max

[Scott Sonnon]

Max,

If you really want to help football players and "follow the money" - then teach them how to prepare themselves to be off the injured list. Research done a couple years ago (2002, I believe), concluded that 40% of sidelining knee injuries in the NFL were NON-contact related. Think about it for a bit. :wink:

[Charlie McCarthy]

A case of overtraining perhaps? Just a wild random guess.

[James Boelter]

I don't agree with everything Pete Egoscue teaches, but he made some excellent observations about the current injury rates in the NFL in his first book, "The Egoscue Method...". Essentially, he believes that football players have lost some essential elements of structural balance and resilience- or have fallen into the state of what Coach Sonnon would call 'sensory motor amnesia'. It isn't that they aren't big and strong, or that they are overtrained (although often they are), it's that they have lost the ability to respond to traumatic forces (not just getting hit, but also making rapid changes in direction, etc) the way their predecessors could 20-30 years ago. They have big muscles, but they DON'T have balance and flexibility and proper relationships between the prime movers, synergists and antagonist muscle groups all over the body.

[Vbrown]

Also, steroids are very slow to affect the ligaments. If at all. The tendons will catch up over time due to the increased tension, but don't grow at the same rate as muscle either.

So you have a bony frame designed for say 200lbs. But you put 250 on it. However, the connective tissue has not kept pace with the muscle. Now put it out on the feild, move it fast and don't work on it's ability to decelerate or change direction when out of balance and THEN scratch your head when it goes POP!!!!!!

Add another 250lbs moving at 30 mph slamming into the first body and suddenly you're sending the orthopod's grandchildren to college.

Good times....

Vince

[rbibbs]

Hmm, steroids. Kinda like buying an aftermarket turbocharger for your 200-hp car then wondering why transmissions only last 18 months.

Funny what otherwise-incomprehensible things we'll do in the name of entertainment.