This week’s guest is Lee Taft, who is highly respected as one of the top athletic movement specialists in the world. He has taught his multi-directional speed methods to top performance coaches and fitness professionals all over the world.

Today’s episode is all about coaching and building speed in a team sport environment.

Through my own journey in learning about the role of vision and reaction in sport this past year, as well as some podcast episodes highlighting reactionary skill as a critical component of the training process, such as Episode #35 with Cameron Josse, I’ve been searching for experts who can lay down solid guidelines on making what we do as strength and speed experts count when it comes to on-the-court play.

One of the most frustrating things as a sports performance coach is working extremely hard to improve athlete’s strength, power and armor, but then watching them struggle to keep up with the movement skill of the opposing team. Lee’s work in multidirectional sport movement helps to fill in that gap. You’ll find great insight particularly from his ideas on reactionary speed, linking movements, sensory roles of the feet in team sport movement, and more.

This is an episode that confirmed some things I’d been hearing from great coaches in the past year, and more importantly, sparked new ideas and thought processes in me, to the effect that I’ve been pouring over slow-motion YouTube videos of the world’s best athletes, as well as creating conversation with my fellow sports performance professionals. Lee is a first-class individual, and whatever your mode of coaching (strength, track and field, physical education) I know you’ll love this episode!

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