Coach Jeff, Keegan and Mikki discuss Maximizing Performance for Youth Sport, maximizing potential and enhancing the sport experience through a focus on Movement Skills & Quality, Positional consistency, Injury prevention, Skill acquisition and power production. Starting at the Foundation in Base and Building mobility alongside Stability.

Episode Highlights:

1:17 Sport IS Performance and the focus of performance is how we are doing in our sport.

2:25 Maximizing Potential in the Boost Phase and Enhanced sport experience

3:54 TIP - Teach youth to move better to express more for improved sport performance

4:40 Positional Consistency "Athletes need enough mobility to get there (on the field) and then be stable for the amount of time needed"

5:00 The ability to reproduce Movement Skills increases Movement Vocabulary and translates to Fluency on the field

7:14 Detracting from performance trajectory through skipped foundations and subsequent injury

9:02 How "Poor Position bleeds power" even in Pro and World Class Athletes

10:21 TIP - Athlete Safety "Do no Harm" through intervention or lack of intervention

11:08 TIP - Start with the Base, Strengthening the Feet

12:17 Striking a Balance, supporting performance through precise application of High skill Low skill protocols to make weaknesses strengths.

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