Just Fly Performance Podcast

I’m excited to have Nick on the show because of his experience as a traditional strength coach, throws coach, and a Bondarchuk method user. Coaches are often intrigued by the Bondarchuk method, as it has yielded such incredible results in the realm of the throws, but there is a lot of confusion as to how its principles might actually carry over into all other training systems.

Nick is a great guy to talk to in this regard, as on this podcast, we go over many of the ideas that Bondarchuk had that can filter to training any event, as well as case studies in regards to related concepts, such as delayed transformation, “lag” of peak performance in Bondarchuk vs. traditional training, velocity based work, and more.

Nick Garcia is one of the leading high school coaches in the country. A former Big Sky conference champion, for the past ten seasons he has served as the throwing coach at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California where he has produced unprecedented success with his youth shot putters.

Chris Korfist has been coaching track for 22 years in Illinois. He has coached at Hinsdale Central, Downers Grove North and York HS, producing 59 All-state track athletes, 3 individual state champions, 2 team state champions, 3 second place team finishes, and 2 3rd place finishes. He owns the Slow Guy Speed School which is a gym that focuses on running and athletic development from which other All-state athletes have trained. He used to run the Inno-sport website and wannagetfast.com with Dan Fichter. He also had the opportunity to work occasionally with some Olympic sprinters and other professional athletes.

Tyrone Edge works with athletes of all levels of development, from youth to national competitors. He is a true student of speed training, and has extensive experience in the methodology of Charlie Francis and his work at the Optimist track club. I love talking to Canadian sprint coaches, as they have a great sport culture, and know their stuff well.

Tyrone is also putting on a great event, called the World Speed Summit, featuring 17 of the top minds in the industry in regards to speed and power training, recovery, nutrition, sport psychology, and more.

The Just Fly Performance Podcast #3 is one that covers a route that many coaching resources tend to downplay, which is the relational aspects between athlete and coach, and how to optimize the psychology and cultural aspects of the weightroom.

For this podcast, we have on the show, Scott Thom, who is currently the lead strength and conditioning coach for Washington State University, and was formerly in the same role for the University of California Berkeley.

Scott is a good friend of mine, who I learned a lot from, not only in terms of programming and workouts, but also, how to create a powerful team culture and build effective relationships with athletes. I’m excited to have him on this episode, as we can all learn a lot from him on managing an exciting and effective team environment that not only makes the process more enjoyable for coach and athlete, but also gets great training results.

Today’s guest on the Just Fly Performance is Matt Gifford, sports performance coach at NX level in Waukesha Wisconsin. Matt is an expert in the realm of speed, strength, warm-ups, cues, and more. I first met Matt last year at a “Speed Football” consortium, and also was able to catch a workout with him at his incredible facility.

In this episode, I talk with Scott Salwasser, director of speed and power development at Texas Tech University on building speed in the realms of technique, training, and team culture.