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Winning
With Waves
How can
it be that America's finest city has one of the not
so finest professional football teams, the San Diego
Chargers? The Chargers have all the ingredients to be
super bowl contenders but yet here they sit right next
to Davey Jones locker - at the bottom. They have an
expert, knowledgeable coaching staff led by one of the
best coaches in the N.F.L.-- Marty Shottemheimer the
inventor of "Marty ball".
They also have some of the best athletes, LaDanian Tomilson,
Donnie Edwards and Drew Brees. These and other players
on the team are world-class, highly skilled athletes,
in fact the leagues best. For the Chargers to become
N.F.L. champions they need to do something to turn losing
into winning.
Time to
bring in the secret weapon: surfing and the beach! Fortunately
the Chargers are located next to the world's greatest
training facilityc the beach. On the beach players
will develop real team spirit, physical and mental conditioning
as well as learning about teamwork, respect, responsibility,
while reducing stress and having fun. If the Chargers
were to train at the beach just one day a week they
would have a tremendous advantage over the other teams
that did not practice at the beach. It may be too late
for this season but for next season it should be mandatory
Monday's at the beach.
The next
time the Chargers play, watch the way they run onto
the field. Each player runs at their own speed not as
a unit but rather each in their own individual world.
If they want to play together as a team, they should
all go onto the field together as one.
Playing
in sync as one unit does not start with the snap of
the ball; it starts in the locker room before ever stepping
onto the field. The very first thing Shottenheimer needs
to do is solidify his players as a unified team playing
as one rather than individuals playing separately together.
In addition to football, he has to find the best way
to fuse the teams spirit and improve players skills,
abilities and morale
One of the
surest ways to unify people is with an individualized
experience that can be shared. How many of the San Diego
Chargers surf? Bring them all including the coaches
to the beach and get them all riding waves. Surfers
are a worldwide family. Surfers come in all ages, shapes,
sizes, color, religions and gender held together by
the surfing spirit that knows no boundaries. What better
way to get the players and staff on the same wavelength
than riding waves together. In the mean time they're
getting the benefit of a water work out lots of healthy
sunshine and fresh air to improve endurance and stamina.
An extra
bonus is the balance-training players would receive
from wave riding. There is no other training that compares.
Let the opposing players try to catch the L train now,
he will throw them off balance by being slipperier than
a surfboard with no wax and more powerful than a breaking
wave.
San Diego's
athletes are equally adept physically at the game of
football as the other players. What they need is the
mental edge. Regular surfing practice is proven to increase
overall awareness levels and sharpen mental skills for
all who participate. Surfers must be aware of conditions,
waves, currents, tides, other surfers and more in order
to be successful. On the football field the only thing
moving is the ball and the players. In the ocean everything
is constantly moving up and down, in and out and side
to side. Surfers must be highly aware, keenly observant
and able to see waves well before they form or come
into view. After surfing, reading the football field
would be easy for a guy like Drew Brees. Surfing would
heighten Brees to a super aware state of mind unlike
any N.F.L. defense has seen before. Through newly gained
ocean awareness actions that used to seem hyper speed
would now appear slow motion. With ultra clarity and
sensitivity Brees could tune into perfect timing learned
from wave riding.
Imagine
Breesf tan and looking confident and relaxed from a
day at the beach, is in the super bowl next year calling
the last play of the game two seconds to go, down by
four and seven yards to the goal. Hut hut the ball gets
snapped! Brees drops back to pass, gets blitzed by five
players with no where to run and no receivers open.
Under the pressure does he choke, panic and throw the
ball away for an incomplete or interception? Not this
time. Brees being a surfer remembers the ABC's of surfing
- always be cool especially under pressure. With three
tacklers on him and about to hit the ground Brees remains
calm using his presence of mind to lateral the ball
to LaDanian Tomilson. Tomilson whose legs are well built
from hours of running in the sand catches the ball and
crashes into the end zone knocking over defensive players
like frail pieces of driftwood winning the game and
the super bowel on the way.
Being in
the super bowel doesn't have to be imaginary for the
San Diego Chargers. They have the very best coaches,
staff and players and the best location in the world
to develop a championship team, San Diego. Take the
existing team to the beach for surfing, water and beach
training and guaranteed performance, attitude and results
will rise faster than an incoming high tide. Surfing
promotes family unity, confidence, awareness, positive
attitude, physical endurance, strength, stamina, understanding
of timing and flow, responsibility, respect and more.
Surfing in the winter helps build a healthy immune system.
To catch the winning wave the Chargers need to train
at the world's best training facility money can't buy,
the beach. Sea you in the surf.
Surfing experts the Willis bros are recognized for surfing
the world's largest waves and teaching thousands to
successfully surf.
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