🏀 How resilience gets poured into athletes
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SPECIAL GUEST
Susan King Bordchart owner of The Athlete Blueprint
Susan has the privilege of working with some of the most accomplished women's athletes of this generation, including multi-time Olympic gold medalists and WNBA champions Sue Bird, Nneka Ogwumike, Breanna Stewart, Megan Rapinoe, Diana Taurasi, Kelsey Plum, Courtney Vandersloot, Satou Sabally, Olivia Moultrie and more.
Aside from her work with The Athlete Blueprint, she has held performance roles with CB Granada in the Spanish ACB, Stanford Women's Basketball, WNBA's Seattle Storm, and as the performance coach for the US Women's National Basketball team.
Website ➡️ www.theathleteblueprint.com
Here’s what we’re serving up:
🏀 #1 - Best kept secret 🗣️
🏀 #2 - Favorite Action 🎥
🏀 #3 - Keeping Focus 💭
LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️
Enhancing Workouts 🗣️
Performance is a puzzle 🧩
Innovative “Super bands” that are extremely effective for athletes in workouts and when they are on the road
Must Add Action 🎥
Top teams “Save Their Best for Last.”
‘SBFL’ The Nuggets run this SAME Action 5x successfully to close out the Lakers
🔨 🏔️
Growth Mindset 💭
We're always learning - if I don’t know the answer, I will ask people who are really smart and find a solution 🔑
How are we going to win today? Find mini-wins throughout the process to keep the journey going 📈
💥 BONUS 💥
“The key to skill development is setting up an environment where people learn implicitly.”
Relationship is between
1. The Learner
2. The Task
3. The Environment
Watch how Gretzky learned to use film at a young age 📺 ✍️
Watch how Ed Reed used film to Learn How to Trick Peyton Manning 👀
Film allows us to recognize patterns, anticipate what will happen next and learn tendencies about ourselves and our opponents.
Strengths & weaknesses (are) good materials to the one who will use them constructively.
Games to watch this weekend: 📺
Thursday 10/26
7:00 pm PT - Suns at Lakers on TNT
Friday 10/27
4:30 pm PT - Heat at Celtics on ESPN
7:00 pm PT - Warriors at Kings on ESPN