OH SNAP! Talk amongst yourselves folks....

dos · 10-20-2005, 12:48 PM

University of Northern Colorado conditioning camp....the saga continues....

wingsfan · 10-20-2005, 12:52 PM

and the transfer of those movements to a valid sport specific need would be???

edit: actually, now that i think about it, i guess they could use those strength conditioning movements in order to help them get positions in the circus....

Howard_Rourke · 10-20-2005, 01:03 PM

OldGuy · 10-20-2005, 01:13 PM

Must be the table tennis team.

Bill Hartman · 10-20-2005, 01:26 PM

Renegade Moe...granted he doesn't have a massive barbell holding 65 pounds on his shoulders BUT...

Bill

Lou Schuler · 10-20-2005, 01:32 PM

At least we now know how Northern Colorado became such a juggernaut in college football. Another mystery solved!

nanook · 10-20-2005, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by Bill Hartman:

Quote:

Renegade Moe...granted he doesn't have a massive barbell holding 65 pounds on his shoulders

I would be much more impressed by a cat holding a 65 lb barbell than any of those guys standing on a ball.

hypersonic · 10-20-2005, 03:51 PM

"and the transfer of those movements to a valid sport specific need would be???" balence

dos · 10-20-2005, 04:06 PM

What type of balance? Balancing on a swiss ball ball? Med ball? As soon as out athlete's start playing on those things, I'll start doing these with them.

hypersonic · 10-20-2005, 04:24 PM

to me it looks a lil hard to keep balence on those things lifting weights and if you think balence has nothing to do with sports you dont know anything about sports.

DKing · 10-20-2005, 04:31 PM

Hahahaha Dos you don't know anything about sports or training athletes!

Hyper, you might want to follow the link in Dos' profile. He knows quite a bit about training for sport. If you do a search of these forums, unstable surface training has come up many times in the past. Bill Hartman, dos, and Alwyn Cosgrove have written a lot about the problems.

The biggest one with balance is proprioception. The carry-over in a healthy joint just isn't there. Increasing balance on a ball doesn't have a carryover to increasing balance on the floor.

Danny

Mahler · 10-20-2005, 04:58 PM

This guy has been frequenting Coach Davies site too much.

LOL

Mahler

FishrCutB8 · 10-20-2005, 05:03 PM

I love my Swiss ball...

dos · 10-20-2005, 05:04 PM

Actually, I don't find it that hard to do those types of cirque de soleil moves on the balls. Must just be my cat-like reflexes and amazing inhuman proprioception. I want a shot at Hartman's cat! (I feel like he's taunting me as he stares at me, standing on that swiss ball....)

By the way, it's 'B-a-l-a-n-c-e'.

kuri · 10-20-2005, 05:37 PM

Gives new meaning to trunk stabilizing work eh Fish?

I. Kay · 10-20-2005, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dos:
What type of balance? Balancing on a swiss ball ball? Med ball?

I don't know why, but that one really got me!

RedLefty · 10-20-2005, 09:23 PM

"Trunk" stabilization, swiss ball ball (the sport of the future), balence, "you don't know anything about sports" to dos... this thread is absolutely priceless. Better than anything on TV.

ninja · 10-20-2005, 10:51 PM

ninja · 10-20-2005, 10:54 PM

Chris Correia · 10-21-2005, 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dos:
What type of balance? Balancing on a swiss ball ball? Med ball? As soon as out athlete's start playing on those things, I'll start doing these with them.

I can see it . . . football played on balls, with players running on them to roll them around on the field . . .

Mahler · 10-21-2005, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by nbjjku:

Nick,
You and I just HAVE to try that at the next retreat. That just looks so cool.

Mahler

gobbla · 10-21-2005, 07:57 AM

@hyper

I think the take away point here is that sports related balance can be achieved through alternative methods easier and safer than balancing on a swiss ball.

While it might make sense for a brief moment in theory...in practice the carryover isn't going to be nearly as practicle as other methods.

Mahler · 10-21-2005, 08:04 AM

In my evil days.

And, the evil one in red who taught me the evil ways of the Swiss Ball.

I feel so good getting that off my chest.

Mahler

TrainingGirl · 10-21-2005, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mahler:

quote:
Originally posted by nbjjku:

Nick,
You and I just HAVE to try that at the next retreat. That just looks so cool.

Mahler [/quote]I'll take a pic of you guys so JP can use it in is his new exercise example section. Maybe you can both stand on the ball while facing each other and holding hands too

Chris Correia · 10-21-2005, 08:19 AM

TG: There's a different version you can I can demonstrate . . . actually, SEVERAL!

(I'm sure glad my wife doesn't read these posts . . . then again, she'd pretty much expect that kind of comment from me)

OldGuy · 10-21-2005, 08:41 AM

JP,

Don't ban Mahler.

TrainingGirl · 10-21-2005, 08:49 AM

LOL...same goes for me Chris. Although hubby knows how I am too.

Haha OG. I think Mahler posted that one of himself first, to take the sting out of posting JP too. It cancels out JP's so he is safe

Faol · 10-21-2005, 08:59 AM

His eyes! Look at the evil in his glowing eyes!

FishrCutB8 · 10-21-2005, 09:07 AM

somebody needs to photoshop horns and a tail on him...

RedLefty · 10-21-2005, 10:56 AM

I think two things when I see that pic:

1) Isn't that Vuduchyld on the right? How the heck is he doing?

2) I'm glad I wasn't there for this. As opposed to dos, I absolutely suck at stuff like this. He has cat-like reflexes... mine are more rhino-like. Lucky for me the ball stuff isn't recommended anyway.