Zone Motion

Had a great time with legendary KC sportscaster, Frank Boal of There’s Just Something About Kansas City Podcast. You may be interested in how I discovered the zone.

Buddy Biancalana: From KC Royals World Series Champion to Mindset Coach In this episode of There’s Just Something About Kansas City, we sit down with Buddy Biancalana, former Kansas City Royals shortstop and unsung 1985 World Ser...

If you’re an athlete or know of an athlete who is not performing consistently well despite receiving excellent coaching and doing all the right things, it just means that the integration has not taken place and you’re/they’re not accessing the Library of Preparation. Zone Motion provides the solution by working at the intersection of the mental and physical, or thought and action. I am offering a complimentary exploratory call between Christmas and New Years. The call can be scheduled here:

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Last night Spurs coach, Gregg Popovich grabbed the PA mic and told the crowd to stop booing the Clippers who have former Spur, Kawhi Leonard on their team. Along with being a class guy, he may also know that any negative energy affects the whole. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I appreciate all your positive vibes!

My legendary high school coach, Al Endriss passed away yesterday at the age of 95.

Coach Al was a huge part of my life from the time I first watched his Redwood High School teams play when I was in grade school to just last week when we had another of our many fruitful conversations. He was the coach of our 1977 Mythical National Championship team. We were good, however not as good as he made us believe we were. There is nothing more important than our beliefs as they are the foundation of our achievements. He made us feel like we couldn’t lose and we rarely did. Coach Al was a coaching pioneer with how he ran the Redwood baseball program, from the fast moving practices to how we wore our uniforms, the length of our hair, flying to places to play other good teams and our “fireside chats” when we were free to share anything on our minds in a safe environment.

He went above and beyond in promoting his players to colleges and professional scouts. He had creditability with all the top collegiate programs. The University of Texas took his word and offered me a full scholarship without ever seeing me play a game including seeing me on video. Just his word was sufficient to Cliff Gustafson.

Coach Al touched so many lives and was such a powerful presence. A few years ago he had a very bad ankle and we met at a coffee shop to play a few games of backgammon. He got there early for what I believe was not wanting me to see him walk in. When we were finished and began walking to our cars, I could see he was limping badly. I grabbed his arm to help him and he quickly said “don’t touch me.” I laughed because it was another example of how he felt he was invincible. I said, “you need a cane” to which he replied, “I don’t need a cane, I’m Al Endriss.” That was the attitude he instilled in so many of his players. However, like all of us, he wasn’t invincible, yet the perception served him and so many of us well. I miss him already, yet so grateful I had him in my life. He will remain a part of me and those whose lives I am fortunate to touch. Much love and appreciation Coach Al!

MLB Organization’s Wrong Priority

I was recently a featured speaker at a fundraising event. The keynote speaker was a prominent baseball writer and sports network insider who appears to completely “sell out” to analytics.

I am a big fan of analytics in baseball as well as other sports. However analytics in certain areas of the game can become useless if strong brain-body coherence is not occurring for the player.

Good brain-body coherence is NOT a byproduct of a strong intellect which is certainly the strength of any statistical analyst working for an MLB organization. These are very intelligent, creative people. Owners, general managers and some, but who knows how many managers are putting a lot of faith in analysts. I believe baseball is at the point where analysts need to have the flexibility to understand brain-body coherence. There must be a balance.

As long as teams are making it their priority to have players who match certain analytics, they will continue to come up short in establishing a sustainable model of success while paying a lot of money to players on the Injured List. This year alone, teams paid over $968 million to 687 players on the IL. This was the most in any year except for 2018 when just over a billion was paid to injured players.

Strong brain-body coherence sets the stage to allow for fluid dynamic motion which reduces strain on muscles, ligaments and tendons.

Numbers don’t lie, however when pressure increases in a game, it’s the player with strong brain-body coherence that will have the best chance to succeed in the moment and over the long term, while having
the best chance of avoiding soft tissue injuries.

Humans are not spit out of a computer. They are developed from the inside out. Most MLB teams appear to be continuing to subscribe to the former by chasing numbers instead of making brain-body coherence the priority.

Join Buddy Biancalana and Bill Laskey on KNBR in San Francisco following today’s Giant-Dodger game. They will be discussing the only mental training program scientifically proven to enhance performance and expedite development. I wonder if the Giants might be ready for it?

Four more days until the Summit!

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