Issues & Advice

Yoga can improve concentration and create a state of relaxed mind where the player is open and clear in the present moment. Soccer involves a lot or running and sprinting during the practice and during games. It’s a very Yang-like activity, and soccer players are getting strength and training on a regular basis,  especially in […]

The good news for my students is my lesson schedule (not to mention my wife) keeps me busy so I don’t have a lot of time to get out to games. The fact is our eyes (and brains) have an amazing ability to adjust to our surroundings, and to take in and process information while […]

Ultimately, it is important to know that exposure to long periods of moderately cold weather on consecutive days over two weeks will allow for acclimatization. As baseball season approaches, we think about moving from the warm weather of the Cactus League to the stiff, cold wind that blows off Lake Michigan in Chicago. April baseball in […]

Kick your feet up. Do nothing. It’s perfectly okay to not be busy every waking moment of your life. “I can’t, my kid has practice.” Sound familiar? As sports parents, we spend hours out of our week taking our young athletes to and from practices, games and other team functions. So many hours that sometimes […]

If you have talent, just be who you are, be yourself, and don’t over throw. Most of us think that we already know what does mental toughness is, but the truth is we still needs to develop and learn. It’s not about how young or how old you are, the real deal is have you develop your mental […]

Good putting is a lot more mental than physical. Not a lot can go wrong with your stroke on a six-footer—it’s a fairly short and quiet motion. A six-footer is by no means a gimme, but it’s still short enough that it stings when it doesn’t go in. To make more of these, start by locking […]

I probably could have called it a day right then and there and just cut my losses. It’s not like I had a spare pair of cleats in my gym bag. To Every Guy Who Went Undrafted This Weekend, I never got invited to the NFL combine. I had some decent stats at Hofstra, but […]

As much as soccer has exploded within the last decade, it is hard to believe that not only are there very few youth soccer clubs with all-girl players Former U.S. Women’s National Team player, World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist, Lori Chalupny, has joined forces with the head coach of Fire and Ice Soccer Club, […]

Make the players around you better. You do this by doing all of the earlier key points and encouraging your teammates There are different types of leaders but I believe the best know how to lead by example, communicate well and when they give you a compliment you feel taller and stronger. In this OSA […]