Who's Got Your Blind Spot

Who's Got Your Blind Spot

"Phil Jackson knows how to coach me. He gets me
angry. When I get angry, I dominate. It's perfect."

-Shaquille O'Neal

Of course you know what happened this year with
Shaq under another champion-caliber coach, Pat
Riley. They've both got new world championship
rings. And how many did Michael Jordan and Phil
Jackson both collect in Chicago?

No matter how talented or gifted you are (or think
you are) at something, you can get better.
And probably much better.

Shaq has, and it took great coaches to channel his
unique individual abilities into a winning team
concept.

Most of the time a good coach can push you harder
and motivate you more than you would yourself.

If you have a good shooting coach locally do
whatever you can to sit under his teaching. It will
pay off in spades in the end.

But shot coaches are not a dime a dozen so you may
well have to get your coaching from a distance-ed
coach via power-packed DVD's. Nothing wrong with
that if you understand what you need.

If you need a vision for what you can accomplish as
a shooter I think Coach Tom Nordland's Swish 2
video is a tremendous resource. Get your passion
ignited or reignited today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/swish2.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. If you know you need rock solid shooting
mechanics that will hold up under game-time
pressures then Coach Hal Wissel is your man.
See how to pump up your confidence and act
like a shooter at all times by running over
to:

http://www.deandelker.com/wissel_order.html

Make Every Shot Count

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

How The Skeptic Can Change His Stripes

How The Skeptic Can Change His Stripes


Dear Dean,

How can a skeptic change his stripes?

With much difficulty, and here's why.

When you're a doubter and a skeptic you're like the
people trapped in the Matrix. There's a whole other
reality out there, but you'll never see it or experience
it until you're ready to let go of your doubter mindset.

A master martial artist once asked Bruce Lee to
teach him everything he knew about martial arts.
Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid.

"The first cup", he said, "represents all your
knowledge about martial arts".

"The second cup represents all mine".

"If you want to fill your cup with my knowledge, you
must first empty your cup of your knowledge."

There's no other way. No half-in, half-out. You can't
experience a deeper, power-filled, inner-life on the
installment plan.

Except for your fears though it's not that hard.
All you have to do is pay attention, and do what
those living outside your box recommend. Come
on in. The water's fine.

Blogger Steve Pavlina says, "Ultimately skepticism
is rooted in fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of
being gullible. Fear of looking foolish."

My mentor Matt Furey reminded me today you
can never really think yourself out of fear. You
have to act your way out of it. You have to be
willing to be imperfect, correct your course, and
smile about it, knowing you just learned something
priceless and became a better person for the effort.
It's all about the experience.

If you are ready to tap into new dynamic inner
resources in shooting a basketball then you are
ready for Coach Stan Kellner's basketball shooting
cybernetics DVD at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

And if you're still skeptical, keep listening, and keep
watching. Your time will come if you don't keep
pushing it away.

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Coach Hal Wissel also has his pulse on the
mind/body connection in his 2 shooting DVD's
which combine detailed shooting mechanics, drills,
and offensive moves, with confidence, self-talk,
and triggering keywords.

You can become the complete, versatile, unstoppable
shooter you've dreamed of under Hal's expert
guidance at:

http://www.deandelker.com/wissel_order.html

Make Every Shot Count

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Skeptics Welcome Here

I know some people are skeptical about all this
inner-game, mind power, cybernetics stuff. Even
though it has worked over and over in situations
from golfing to going to the moon, these people
haven't seen anything unexpected happening in
their lives.

Unless you can hit them over the head with the
mental equivalent of a 2 x 4, whatever you say,
their first response is to doubt.

"How do you know that's true?" is their mantra.

Maybe they all have some connection to Missouri,
the "Show Me" state.

I understand that mindset. I was trained in the
sciences and have a Master's Degree in Electronic
Engineering with a Digital Design emphasis from
the University of Missouri at Rolla. That's the way
we were taught to think. I've since found out
though it's just part of the big picture.

And that's not bad. It drives the scientific method,
and it protects us from scams. It's just limited.

To be consistent and intellectually honest though
shouldn't the skeptic eventually come to doubt his
own doubts. What if his assumptions are wrong?
What if the universe is not just an external,
objective, material reality.

What if it is subjective, fluid, and we are meant to
be co-creators of our own reality and future. If it
is even partially affected by our thoughts, beliefs,
feelings, and decisions then approaching it from a
position of doubt means you're guaranteed to cut
off a huge chunk of your potential. And in my
experience it would be the best part.

Tomorrow I'll show you how a skeptic can change
his stripes, but for those of you who are ready for
the big-time already Coach Stan Kellner wants to
show you how to use your mind to drive a well-
oiled shooting machine. Pickup your keys today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. And if you want to go beyond shooting and
create the future of your dreams now's the time to
explore the in-depth, life-changing "Zero
Resistance Living" course from the Psycho-
Cybernetics Foundation.

But only if you are ready. Find out today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/zero_resistance.html

Make Every Shot Count

How Imagination Trumps Terrorism

There's a new show on TV this fall called "Jericho".
It's about the people in a small town in Kansas who
see a mushroom cloud over Denver to the west and
find themselves cut off from the outside world not
knowing for sure the breadth of what is going on.
Nuclear terrorism is the implication, and you can
imagine the fear and panic that might arise in the
townspeople.

After they all make it through one crisis in the pilot
but are turning on one another the mayor of the
town needs to maintain order and rally the citizenry.
And the keynote of his message is this:

"Are we going to use our imaginations to solve
problems, or to cause them."

I'm not sure the writers of that show have any idea
how profound a statement that is, but in my mind
and experience it is radically true. You can use your
thoughts and imagination to make situations better,
or to make them worse. Every time. Believe it or
not, you have that kind of power.

When Dr. Maxwell Maltz wrote "Psycho-
Cybernetics" fifty years ago athletes were among
the first to to prove it's ideas true in scientific
studies and on the field of battle, and that is
happening more and more everyday.

As a shooter you have much evidence of the power
of your imagination. You're probably aware one of
the first documented studies of imagination practice
involved freethrow shooting. The group which only
practiced in their imagination had virtually the same
gains as the group which practiced shooting
mechanically everyday.

So I'm probably preaching to the choir on this one,
but if you're not hitting baskets in perfect form in
your mind on a daily basis you have left one of your
most powerful training weapons on the rack.

And that's just a beginning. Let Coach Stan Kellner
show you the vast array of mental tools at your
disposal in his new, "How To Become A Prime-Time
Shooting Machine" DVD. It's available today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Shooting hoops is tremendous training in how
to hit targets and goals of all kinds, be they spiritual,
mental, emotional, social, career, economic, health-
related, or physical. If you have the time maybe you
could eventually figure it for yourself and create a
wonderful life.

To help make a life-changing process like that easier
the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation has recently
issued the ultimate, in-depth, home-study course on
all-around success called, "Zero Resistance Living".

Find out how to make the most of your life today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/zero_resistance.html

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Can I Get An Update

In my Clark Kent day job I am a computer systems
administrator at the University of Florida. Whenever
we get a call at our Help Desk one of the first
questions we ask is:

"Have your updates been done recently?"

We do the updating automatically for most of our
systems, but if a user has his computer turned off
during the update window, they can miss it. And
missing it can be disastrous. It's a big security risk.

Not getting the latest updates on the art and science
of shooting hoops can severely affect you too. I am
all for learning and practicing the fundamentals, but
sometimes people do come up with a better way.

I started playing tennis when I was 6 because we
lived about a block from the city tennis courts.
Every summer a wonderful old soul from the YMCA
named Doc Hosbach would organize older kids to
teach tennis lessons to the youngsters, sell discount
equipment, organize games, and tournaments, etc.

I was pretty good and was runner-up in the 14 &
under city-wide tournament when I was 11. Soon
after we moved, and I never was able to put the
same amount of time in it as I had when I was
younger, but I still have good strokes, and a
surprisingly good serve.

I took some lessons a couple of years ago though,
to try to get back in the groove, and found my
basic strokes were older than old school. It was
like a 2 handed set shot is to basketball. With the
new techniques though the forehand now is much,
much more powerful and more versitile than it
ever was before.

So even if you have good fundamentals you still
might need an update or two in your shooting
technique.

But other times there are old skills that have
been forgotten, and need to be brought back into
the light. Matt Furey's revival of "Catch As Catch
Can" wrestling from the turn of the century
wrestlers like Farmer Burns is an example.

Please don't ever get where you think you know it
all, and can't learn anything anymore. Coach Tom
Nordland didn't sit back on his laurels when his Swish
video became a best-seller 9 years ago. He kept on
refining his shooting system and learn more. Finally
he had figured out so much more, he had to come out
with a new DVD, Swish 2. If you don't have it yet
you could be losing out in a big way.

See how you can get double the bang for your buck
today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/swish2.html

Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. I love to get feedback on what you are learning,
and the kind of results you are getting. Thanks to
all who've written me already at
dean@deandelker.com


Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

What Can Focus Do For You

I don't hear a lot of people talking about the virtues
of concentration and focus. It's something I think
most people associate with things that require
extreme concentration like tightrope walking.

The truth is for any kind of athlete though focus
can be invaluable. It will allow you to:

-> Defeat teams with greater athleticism

-> Perform with more consistently by not drifting
mentally in and out

-> Perform when it matters most, like free throws
in crunch time.

-> Work smarter in practices and in the off season

-> Block out adversity and distractions

With the ability to focus on the moment an athlete
can get in a mental state which will let his or her
physical ability be maximized. What people call
"being in the zone".

The value of focus for a shooter is obvious, but the
ability to concentrate and get in the zone where
your mind doesn't interfere with what you've
been trained to do is a skill everybody needs so
keep practicing your sitting still routine. It's a
good start.

Get another good start putting your focus to best
use by spending time with Coach Stan Kellner on
his "How To Become A Prime-Time Shooting
Machine" DVD. Learn how to use your mind at it's
fullest in shooting a basketball today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Don't forget to have fun too. Did you know
you can exercise and compete with an inner and
outer smile, and it helps take your performanc to
a another level. Learn how to supercharge your
conditioning today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/matt_furey.html

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

How To Focus Like A Star

The great athletes of our time, people like Michael
Jordan, Joe Montana, and Carl Lewis, all had
amazing physical abilities (strength, stamina, and
quickness).

But as the true elite of the sporting world, this
group also displayed another trait that separated
them from even the very talented opponents they
faced: the power to concentrate and focus on the
task at hand.

Patrick Chylinski

How would you develop focus and concentration
like that?

Would you believe me if I told you there were
several simple steps you can take to get started?

First, don't forget the concentration exercises you
got for signing up on this list. They are deceptively
powerful. Did you read over them and say I ought
to try these some day?

Dig them back up and start practicing for 15
minutes a day, more if you can. Let yourself relax
and flow with your surroundings. Experience the
growing power of your focus. You can find the
exercises again at:

www.deandelker.com/concentration_exercises.html

A second simple way to develop focus is to change
the way you train and work out. Start paying
attention moment to moment when you are
exercising. Pay attention to your breathing. Count
your breaths. Count your reps, count your steps.

Coach Tim Kauppinen suggests for example, when
you run hill sprints, you pay close attention to your
steps as you move up the hill or stairs.
Counting in your head will cause you to focus on the
pace - not how hard it is to sprint up the hill.

Counting is a great technique because it keeps the
conscious mind busy and allows the subconscious to
come to the forefront. That allows deeper learning
and body/mind integration to take place. Exercise
is really productive when that happens.

When you are shooting try paying attention to
various factors and see how each affects your shot.
One time pay attention to the leg drive you're using.
Another time focus on arm angle and follow through.

One of the best focus factors I've found is Stan
Kellner's three power shooting words - See, Feel, &
Yes. Focusing on them frees you up to produce a
smooth, rhythmic, accurate shot. Try it. I know
you'll like it. And it's fully explained on Stan's
Prime-Time Shooting DVD at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Don't forget Stan's "Beyond The Absolute
Limit" book either. It is applied basketball
cybernetics at it's best. Pound for pound I think
there's more powerful information in this book
than in any I've read. Pick it up today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

It's Your life - Make Every Shot Count

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Sit Still, Junior

How many times has your mother or a teacher
ever told you to sit still? Remember that?

Well, that's exactly what I'm going to ask you to
do in a minute, but for a far different reason.
You were probably embarrassing your mother.
We're going to work on developing your power
of focus.

This will help any and all of us, but if you happen
to be what some would call ADHD or hyper, this
may be tough, but you will benefit the most from it.

First I want you to do a simple deep breathing
exercise to put you in a more laid-back, reflective
state.

Stand with feet shoulder-width apart with hands
at your sides. Inhale to a 4-count while you lift
your arms up and out with palms facing up till
fingertips meet overhead with palms down. Then
exhale to a 6-count while pressing hands down
like you're squeezing air out of your lungs.
Repeat till you feel more relaxed.

Now sit in a comfortable chair and see how still
you can be. This is not as easy as it sounds. You
will have to center your attention to sitt still.
Watch and see that you are not making any
involuntary muscular movements. With a little
practice you will find you can sit still for 15
minutes. At first I advise 5 though. After you
are able to keep perfectly still, increase
the time. But never strain yourself.
You want to be relaxed.

Also try doing the breathing exercise before you
start your shooting practice. See if your focus isn't
better.

Stan Kellner teaches you how to use focus as the
first step in his Ultimate Shooting Method DVD.
If you've wondered how your form can look good,
but you still miss too many shots Stan has the
answers for you. Hint: It's all in your head, but
don't take my word for it. See the new Stan the
Man at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. It also takes a lot of focus and concentration
to close the graduated resistance hand grippers
available from strongman extraordinaire John
Wood.

Have you gotten yours yet? Talk about a work-
out that is fun, but practical. Strong hands will
make you a winner, hands down. See how today
at:

http://www.deandelker.com/captains_of_crush.html

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

You Can Focus Like The Pros

The great athletes of our time, people like Michael
Jordan, Joe Montana, and Carl Lewis, all had
amazing physical abilities (strength, stamina, and
quickness).

But as the true elite of the sporting world, this group
also displayed another trait that separated them
from even the very talented opponents they faced:
the power to concentrate and focus on the task at
hand.

Patrick Chylinski

How would you develop a focus and concentration
like that?

Would you believe me if I told you there were
several simple steps you could take? It will take
time, and you will have to be consistent, but the
steps are not so hard.

First, don't forget the concentration exercises you
got for signing up on this list. They are deceptively
powerful. Did you read over them and say I ought
to try this some day? And you haven't thought
about them since.

Dig them back up and start practicing for 5, 10, 15
minutes a day, more. Let yourself relax and flow
with your surroundings. Let the power of your
focus grow.

You can find the exercises again at:

www.deandelker.com/concentration_exercises.html

A second simple way to develop focus is to change the
way you train and work out. Start paying attention
moment to moment when you are exercising. Pay
attention to your breathing or your heartbeat. Count
your breaths instead. Count your reps, count your
steps.

Coach Tim Kauppinen who we've met before
suggests for example, when running hill sprints,
you pay close attention to your steps as you move
up the hill or stairs. Counting in your head will
cause you to focus on the pace - not how hard it is.
Concentrate on little details and your body will
take care of getting you to the top.

Counting is a great technique because it keeps the
conscious mind busy and allows the subconscious
to come to the forefront. That allows deeper
learning and more body/mind integration to take
place. Exercise is really productive when that
happens.

When you are shooting try paying attention to
various factors and see how that affects your shot.
One time pay attention to the leg drive you're
using. Another focus on arm angle and follow
through.

Three of the best factors I've ever found to focus
on is Stan Kellner's three power shooting words.
Focusing on them frees you up to produce a
smooth, rhythmic, accurate shot. Try it. I know
you'll like it.

It's all on Stan's Prime-Time Shooting DVD at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Don't forget Stan's "Beyond The Absolute
Limit" book too. It is applied basketball
cybernetics at it's best. Pound for pound I think
there's more powerful information in this hoops
instruction book than in any I've read. It's also at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

It's Your life - Make Every Shot Count

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Workouts

Do you know how to get the most out of your
workout?

You may not believe me now because it goes
gainst common practice, but it's not by listening to
hard driving, fast-paced music.

My friend Tania explains it this way:

Fast pumping music will raise your heartbeat,
adrenaline, and stress hormones artificially
which nobody needs. And it will make it next to
impossible to do quality, deep, controlled
breathing.

It will also rev up your brain and make it harder
to focus, concentrate, and center on what your
body is doing.

Mindless movement to mindless music
will dumb you down.

And when its the mental game that separates
champions from pretenders, don't you want your
mind to get sharper every workout not duller?

In contrast, slow, controlled, high frequency music
will relax you and allow you to breathe more deeply
and concentrate more fully. You will be more in
touch with your body, feel more together, and get
the most out of your training in both body and
mind.

Try listening to classical music for a change and
even better learn more about how to reach peak
performance from Tania today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/secret_power.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Tania and I have a coach who understands
aligning mind and body through exercise. Matt
Furey is his name and his conditioning program
develops grace, mental power, functional strength,
toughness, and stamina like nothing else I've ever
tried.

Give a look see, and you're sure to find something
you need to take your fitness to the next level at:

http://www.deandelker.com/matt_furey.html

Don't Be Common

Napoleon Hill tells the story about a little old lady
who entered a furniture store on a rainy day. Most
of the salespeople wrote her off as someone just
escaping from the rain, but one wet-behind-the-
ears salesman went out of his way to be helpful to
the lady. He failed to make a sale, and became the
brunt of much kidding by the seasoned old pros,
but not long after -

Billionaire Andrew Carnegie contacted the store and
insisted that particular salesman be sent to Scotland
to take orders for new furnishings for the Carnegie
family castle.

That little old lady had been Carnegie's mother. And
by going the extra mile and extending true customer
service to someone who didn't begin to look like a
customer this salesman became an overnight sales
superstar.

Yesterday was my brother-in-law John's birthday
and a mutual friend of ours gave him a 5 big boxes of
old baseball cards. Excuse me, they call them sports
cards today. The boxes were full of baseball, football,
and basketball cards, and John will be in hog-heaven
going through all them. Best birthday gift he got.

One of the first things you notice in a box of cards
though is how many "commons" there are. Commons
are your everyday, journeyman players. Not the
all-stars or the money cards.

Now believe me, if you saw most of these "commons"
in your home gym or on your home field you'd be
impressed with their talent. I have much respect for
them. They've worked hard, and they play at an elite
level, but in the card collecting world they're all on
about the same level. Nickel and dimer's.

Now's the time to start thinking what kind of sports
card you'd want your name to be on.

If you want to be ordinary then just practice shooting
when you feel like it, watch a lot of TV, play a lot of
video games, and coast on your natural talent.

But, if you want to be extraordinary, if you want to
be uncommon, if you want to be super you'll
undoubtedly have to go the extra mile.

You have to make the quality decision, but once you
do there are tons of resources to help you on your
quest.

I've just begun to scratch the surface on my website
so keep tuned, but I believe the best starting point is
Stan Kellner's "How To Be A Prime-Time Shooting
Machine" DVD.

Its unique emphasis on the mental game will
supercharge what you already know about shooting
and prepare you for deeper learning in the future.
Get on board today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

http://www.deandelker.com/

P.S. Both Tom Nordland's and Hal Wissel's new
shooting DVD's will help you with drills and
practicing shooting fundamentals. You can never
learn too much. It's time to catch the wave today
at:

http://www.deandelker.com/products.html

It's Like Brownian Motion

Living without definitive goals is like being in
"brownian motion".

If you're not a geek like me you might not know
brownian motion is a way of describing how
minute particles suspended in, or on, a fluid
randomly move around. There is movement
and there is some flow, but mostly it's a lot of
jittery activity.

It was first noticed under primitive microscopes in
the 1830's looking at pollen floating on top of water.
Early experimenters saw the activity and thought
pollen was moving because it was alive, until they
got the same response from dust particles floating
on water.

Today it's used to describe mathematically the
movement of crowds and even the fluctuations of the
stock market. The best illustration I can think of is a
mosh pit at a rock concert.

Note: there is there is motion, and the appearance
of life, but there's not much real living going on.

If you don't want to bounce around like a little
particle, start setting worthwhile goals that excite
you, then break them down into manageable chunks
or sub-goals you can handle. And when you reach
those goals be sure to make a deal out of it and
celebrate somehow. That's what will build you up
to have success with tougher targets.

We were created to embrace goals and get real
satisfaction out of reaching them. Maybe we've
been spoiled by the emphasis on the home run.
You can score a lot of runs if your whole team is
hitting singles, but big goals are so much more
seksy.

One really good goal for a shooter is to master the
free throw. It's only one point, but how many
times have you seen a team lose by 6 points and
find out after the game they missed two or three
times that many freethrows.

Hal Wissel's first DVD shows you how to be a
great free-throw shooter. Get started on your path
to shooting glory today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/wissel_order.html

Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Stan Kellner's "Prime-Time" Shooting DVD
covers the mental side of shooting free-throws like
a warm blanket. If you feel your stroke is pretty
good, but you're still not producing in the box score
like you want you need a dose of Stan's medicine at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Why I Used To Hate Goals

For much of my life I've never really gotten into
goals. At least not the way achievers talked about
them. I've had vague directions I wanted to go in,
but I was more of a "play it by ear" kind of guy.
Goal setting to me seemed to take the spontaneity
out of living. It made me feel like I was a robot, or
something.

Because of that, I experienced a lot of the coasting
and drifting like I was talking about yesterday.
And yes, I've experienced the pain that comes
from living like that too.

Going with the flow eventually drowns your ambition
and your pleasure. I was living a black-and-white life.

One reason I was so resistant was I only saw goals
objectively. They were something sterile and
intellectual to me. I didn't realize how much joy you
could experience in setting and hitting goals. I just
saw them as mile markers on a hard road. No
wonder I resisted.

Not any more though. I've done a 180 and realize we
are all built-in goal seekers. And if we don't pursure
what we want we'll end up getting what we don't
want, by default.

I'm reading "The New Psycho-Cybernetics" which
is modernized, updated version of the 30 million
selling self-help classic. Dan Kennedy the multi-
millionaire speaker, business consultant, and direct
marketing wizard has done the updating because
the original book helped him overcome stuttering,
and develop the habit of success. I'm seeing things
in a new light, and recommend it highly.

One of the reasons I thought I wasn't goal-oriented
is much of it went on automatically in the
background. When I watch a 12 month old learning
to walk, and I see it clearly, but when I walk now I'm
not conscious of the goal behavior going on inside. It
is though.

As human beings we have the privilege of being able
to set meaningful, satisfying emotional goals - and
then to hit them.

Rick Rosser emailed me last night and was pumped
up about a new personal best in consecutive free
throws. I would be too, and I love hearing about
Rick's success and any of your successes.

He shot 1558 straight freethrows recently , and
now he's even more confident he can work up into
Guinness world-record territory. And as a truck
driver who travels around he's also hit more than
100 consecutive freethrows in 136 different
YMCA's across the land. That's probably a world
record already. You should check on that Rick.

Rick is excited about life, and you will be too
when you start setting some juicy goals that light
your fire.

Remember if you're not moving toward intentional
purposes, goals or dreams you're going to get the
leftovers and the hand-me-downs in life. Then
you're going to whine and complain which will
make it worse, and you're just not going to be
very happy at all.

Shoot For The Stars One Exciting Goal At A Time,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Dan Kennedy was also very instrumental in
compiling and bringing Psycho-Cybernetics to the
masses in a step-by-step workbook format that
anybody can follow and grow from. The course
called "Zero Resistance Living" turned my life
around, and I've I'm just beginning to scratch
the surface of it's possibilities.

Find out how you can live large today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/zero_resistance.html

P.P.S Dr. Maltz was a friend of Salvador Dali who
was the antithesis of the "starving artist". Dali
understood how to live life to the hilt, how to
communicate that joy of living on canvas, and
how to get paid what he was worth.

Tania Gabrielle French carries that same torch in
the field of music today, and she can show you how
to use power-filled words and beautiful music to
rise to new personal heights.

Experience the positive power of music today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/secret_power.html

Pick Your Pain

Pain is a fact of life. You're gonna have some.

The only question is what kind of pain do you want?

Too many people are satisfied with the pain of
mediocrity with it's minimal satisfactions. In their
mind seeking their dreams would be more than
they could bear.

They are like people in a self-imposed prison who
have rationalized it's not so bad. Somebody feeds
you. You have a roof over your head, and you even
get free medical. Who can beat that?

It's not worth it to them to pay the price to seek
freedom. That would be uncomfortable. It could be
painful, and they decide to just coast and drift
where they are.

I've got good news and bad news.

This life is designed for you to move, and grow, and
learn, and use your muscles, and use your mind.
It's designed for you to excel and be victorious. It's
designed for you to pursue worthwhile goals and
dreams.

The bad news is if you try to coast or drift or stay
the same you won't preserve the "status quo" and
save yourself from pain like you think you will,
you'll go backwards. You'll drift downstream. And
then you'll experience real pain. You'll stay broke,
or your marriage will fall apart. You'll hate your job,
lose your friends, get fat and unhealthy, etc.

In fact, I believe God has designed it that way so
we'll get the message complacency totally sucks.

The good news is the pain of achievement is
always worth it. I have yet to meet a mother who
goes through the intense pain of childbirth, who
when she's holding her new bundle of joy close to
her heart doesn't say, "As hard as that was, it was
absolutely worth it to experience this."

The next time you are tempted to blow off shooting
practice, or your homework, or exercising, or
whatever is hard for you to do at the moment
remember the pain of not doing it and just drifting is
far greater.

Believe me. I've tried it both ways, and there's no
comparison.

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. I'm not saying you should slave away, or strive
and struggle to get ahead. There is a far better way.
By learning to use the higher laws of the universe
and your mind effectively you can make the way
smooth. Like Jesus said, "My yoke is easy and my
burden light"

Dr. Maxwell Maltz devoted his life to discovering
and teaching how to use your mind and emotions to
unlock those higher laws and reach your goals with
less resistance and pain. See what I'm talking about
right now at:

http://www.deandelker.com/zero_resistance.html

P.P.S. What Dr. Maltz has done for achievement in
general Coach Stan Kellner has done for playing
basketball, and especially for shooting. If you want to
shoot like a machine, effortlessly and confidently you
really have to have his new DVD.

See what "How To Become A Prime-Time Shooting
Machine With The Ultimate Shooting Method"
today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Seeing Through The Dark Clouds

The student-run Florida Alligator newspaper in
Gainesville ran a cover today that was a huge
menacing black cloud with stylized skyscrapers
peaking through in places.

It's hard not to get caught up in the darkness of
the 9/11 anniversary like we're remembering
today. But this morning after honoring and
remembering the innocents slain in the World
Trade Center massacre, I decided they wouldn't
want me to wallow in fear or sadness. They'd
want me to get on with my own unique brand of
living and overcoming darkness with light.

Still though I was wondering how I was going to
talk about the game of basketball when so many
people were thinking about much more serious
matters.

Then I found a piece in Tom Hughes' monthly
newsletter about a book by Brian Kilmeade called
"The Games Do Count".

In his introduction Brian writes how he was
inspired to finish his book about how sports prepare
people for success in life when he learned four of the
heroes of Flight 93 had an extensive background in
organized sports.

I believe Tom Burnett, Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick,
and Mark Bingham, four average Americans
mustered up the courage to formulate a plan and
execute it even while staring death in the face, in
part, because of their athletic training.

If you want to be negative you can always find
something wrong with sports today, but this story
magnifies everything that's right about it.

So don't let anybody tell you "it's just a game"
anymore when you have the burning desire to be
an outstanding shooter, or to excel at anything else
in life. You were created that way, and you'd be
abnormal not to want to experience it. It's time to
celebrate that, put everything you can into it, and
see what you can become as a result.

The world needs you to.

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean Delker - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

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The Fire That Doesn't Consume

It's getting close to basketball season again, and
today I was reminiscing about my high school
days. Holy Name Catholic High School in
Henderson, Kentucky was a tiny school. There
were 41 in my senior class.

In those days in sports there was no such thing as
classifications. You played everybody, and we had
success far beyond what anyone could have
expected in most years. And it all started with a
gym that was one of the biggest and best in our
region. That included schools with 10 - 15 times
our enrollment.

How was that possible?

Through a burning desire to win.

As a private school we were willing to invest in
ourselves so we could play with the big boys. We
believed in our school, our coaches, our players.
It's what we called in those days "school spirit",
which really was a "winning spirit". We wanted to
win, and we were willing to do what it took for
that to happen.

In the first part of the 20th century Andrew
Carnegie commissioned a young man named
Napolean Hill to interview hundreds of successful
people from all walks of life to find the common
elements of success.

Mr. Hill wrote a book about his findings called
"Think And Grow Rich" which has become a
self-help classic. It is a great read, and contrary
to popular belief it applies to much more than
money. It's about riches of all kinds.

And Napolean Hill says the starting point for all
achievement is having a burning desire. That's
where the "winning spirit" get's it's fuel.

Have you ever thought about your passions and
your burning desires? If not, make some time
this week to do that.

If one is to be a great shooter I'm very excited
about your future. You have the right stuff. If
you learn how to keep feeding that fire you'll
shoot with the stars.

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Just as you invest time in practicing your shot,
don't forget to feed the fire by build up your shooting
IQ too. A great way to do that is with Coach Tom
Nordlands's comprehensive double length Swish 2
DVD. It's a true bargain at:

http://www.deandelker.com/swish2.html

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Confidence Is - As Confidence Does

How do you build confidence without success when
you need confidence to be a success?

The formula is tried and true. It has been working
for centuries and centuries. To become successful
you have to first act like a success.

Harvard-trained sports psychologist Dr. Stephen
Kraus explains it this way:

"Acting like a success begins to change how you think
about yourself ... You can use this process to enhance
your own success and motivation simply by choosing
an identity you want, and beginning to act accordingly.
Soon the expectations of others, and your own internal
need for consistency, will get cycles of confidence,
motivation, and action spinning in the right direction.

How do you take on the identity of a shooter?

Begin to act like a shooter. A shooter holds himself
like a shooter. His body language speaks volumes.
A shooter practices shooting every day. A shooter
has that knowing smile.

Dr. Hal Wissel spends a lot of time in his two
shooting DVD's emphasizing how you act like a
shooter in thought, speech, and action. Learn from
one of the best today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/wissel_order.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. One of Stan Kellner's constant refrains in his
Prime-Time Shooting Machine DVD is,

"Who Are You?".

And his students shout back,

"I Am a Shooting Machine!".

See how you can have something to shout about
too at:

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The Catch 22 of Confidence

Building confidence in shooting is like getting a job
you want.

To get the job they want you to have experience,
but to get experience you need the bleeping job.

Frustrating, right?

Well it could be, but when it comes to shooting as
they say at the Texas Hold 'Em table you've got a
couple of "outs".

I'll tell you one of them now.

Start 6 feet from the basket, or closer if you are a
young player. Like many shot coaches, I favor the
one-handed shot we taught before as a warm up.
It reinforces the upper body form you will need for
longer shots and naturally trains you to keep the
shooting hand facing the basket.

As the ball rolls off the index finger and you swish
the shot it is very important you mentally celebrate
the made shot. Don't look at it as a 6 footer you
should have made, or a baby shot. If you want to
have supreme confidence you have to build up a
massive reservoir of made shots in your mind.

Coach Stan Kellner has you saying an enthusiastic
"YES" every time you make a shot. That simple
act builds chest-puffing confidence when it's
embraced and repeated over and over. Then once
you are confident in that shot, move back a step or
two and repeat the process.

Of course, you have to learn how to use misses to
build your confidence too, and Stan does a far better
job of explaining that than I would so I'm going to
recommend you invest in his 'Prime-Time Shooting
Machine' DVD today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Hal Wissel's DVD's also do a great job of building
confidence by anchoring keywords with your shot.
At the same time Hal schools you in rock-solid shot
mechanics. If you feel you need more help in that
area you may want to get Hal's DVDs first. You can't
go wrong either way, but catch Hal's confidence
boosters at:

http://www.deandelker.com/wissel_order.html

I believe in you. You just need to learn how to
believe in yourself.

P.S.S. I always like to hear your success stories.
Please email me at dean@deandelker.com with all
the glorious details.

Let's Hear It For The Girls

What can girls or young boys do to build up their
shooting strength?

Rhythm and timing and leg strength can produce
good range on your shooting, but sometimes you
do need to build up specific muscle groups.

Donna Bruneau-Lester wrote to a coaches forum
I frequent and had the following to say:

"As a rule girls usually don't have the strength to
shoot from behind the arc [till they're older], but it
doesn't have to be that way. I could shoot a ball at
11 from behind the arc and still have good form."

Donna says what she did to achieve that was do
pushups, pushups, and more pushups. It's a good
way to build strength without building bulk.

To work the part of the arm usually weak in a
woman she recommends pushups with your hands
turned inward toward each other. You can vary
the distance apart, and also move the hands further
up toward the face for developing the upper body
further.

Also key to Donna's young training regimen was
doing a lot of 1 handed shots starting near the
basket and working outward after hitting 5 or 10
straight. Remember to keep your arm in a perfect
"L" for the best results.

Don't forget to work on your non-dominant hand
too.

If you want to add variety to Donna's pushups
and build core strength, you owe it to yourself to
explore Matt Furey's politically incorrect
bodyweight training program. Matt teaches a
Hindu pushup that looks like a cross between
yoga and pushups, and comes complete with
power breathing and mental imaging so it works
out your mind too.

One of his other core body weight exercises is
called the Hindu squat. It's like no other leg
exercise you've ever seen and it works every
muscle you can think of in the lower body.
Couple that with some hill or stair sprints and
you have a 15 minute workout with star power.

Get your kids started on body weight exercises
like that and sit back and watch them mow down
their competition today. Get the lowdown on real
functional strength and endurance today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/matt_furey.html

Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Hal Wissel also stresses the one-handed shot
for mastering proper shooting form. Whether
you're 6 or 60 if you're shot's not consistent Hal
can show you why. Catch the shooting fever
today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/wissel_order.html

Whither Strength

Where does strength for shooting come from?

Dr. Hal Wissel says it comes from the rhythm of
your down & up leg motion. So do most shooting
coaches. No matter what they call it leg drive is
of primo importance.

Leg drive lets you keep your upper body relaxed.
Coach Gary Groharing of the Strictly Shooting
camps in the metro Chicago area calls it 'soft on top.'

The kinetic chain of events in getting that power up
thru the legs into the shot is also critical. Everything
needs to go down together and everything needs to
come up together. The better both halves work
together the smoother and more accurate the shot is.

So shooting strength is much more than arm and
shoulder strength. Leg strength is also a must, and
you have to have a solid mid-section. Core strength
is what you need to transfer your leg power through
to the upper body and to the ball.

Does that mean I recommend running out and doing
Pilates every day? That might not be a bad idea, but
it's not very convenient. You need something you
can do every day, at home or in a hotel room without
any bulky or expensive equipment.

My friend Matt Furey has the perfect answer for you.
Matt has developed an intense daily bodyweight
program for building leg, core, and upper body strength.
And it does this while integrating mind and body and
building endurance and flexibility. And it doesn't take
hours to do either.

Matt's book 'Combat Conditioning' is an international
bestseller which combines Eastern wisdom with
powerful breathing and natural wholistic muscle
building. The result is a body that works together,
and it will provide a great foundation for becoming a
shooter.

See what it can do for you today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/matt_furey.html

Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Sign up on Matt's opt-in email list, and find out
how you can get "Combat Conditioning" free for
taking a 1 month test drive in Matt's Inner Circle.
You will be estatic you did.

Labor Day Diatribe

It's hard for me to get into Labor Day here in the
USA. I wish they'd just call it 'End Of Summer'
Day or something. Does anybody else feel like it's
too much like a socialist holiday? At least we don't
celebrate May Day too.

I'm all for honoring the worker, and the way we do
that is treat him with respect, give him recognition,
and pay him well for his productivity.

I know labor unions have done some good over the
years, especially in their beginnings, but my
experiences with them have been consistently
negative. Most of what I've seen are people trying
to get paid for doing as little as possible. That just
rubs me the wrong way.

I'm just glad that mindset doesn't work on the
basketball court. Sports is still one area people don't
try to make you feel guilty about achievement.

The flip side of that though is you have to produce.
There's a lot of teamwork, support, comraderie, and
dareI say love in sports. But it's a tough love.

Bottom line is if you want to be known as a shooter,
you're going to have to shoot - shoot a lot. I've heard
pro scouts like to see kids shooting at least 500 quality
shots a day if they have pro aspirations.

And I've heard at least 200 shots a day would be a
good benchmark for high school players who are
college prospects.

In his two shooting DVD's Dr. Hal Wissel presents a
plan for turning you into a deadly shooter in 21 days.
Using his warm-ups and drills you can get in 1000
shots in good form in under 2 hours a day. If you
are serious about your shooting you can't beat Hal's
plan with a big old stick. The sooner you get to work
at:

http://www.deandelker.com/wissel_order.html

the sooner you can reap the rewards.

Shoot for The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Coach Tim Kauppinen is getting rave reviews on
his new hill and stair sprinting program. Here's his
letter of the week.

I'm sure you're inundated with emails (congratulations
on your success!) but I just wanted to provide you with
a quick update. I'm still doing short sprint workouts
now for only about 45-min/day (including lifting) and
am way more cut than when I was in college as a D-1
athlete, working out 4 hrs/day. Thanks for the great
advice! Keep up the great work!

- Katie

Discover the time saving results of hill sprinting for
yourself today, or if you live in levelland like I do you'll
find Tim's stair sprinting course invaluable. Find out
more today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/hill_sprints.html

How Superstars Practice

My friend Clayton Haslop is a world-class violinist.
In the realm of music soundtracks he's a superstar.
He's the man Hollywood calls when they need a big
score done right. He usually serves as concertmaster
which is like the team captain for the orchestra. His
credits include Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13,
the Matrix, the Incredibles, and much more.

I play bass guitar, and Clayton gave me a practice
tip today which I'm passing on to you. It's very
relevant to any kind of practicing.

The key is to achieve something excellent in what
you're working on before going on to the next
phase of your practice. And by excellence I mean
achieving something you haven't done before,
something that puts a point of distinction on your
practice session. Something challenging, like a
personal best or a new consecutive basket streak.

Be creative.

What you want to avoid is drifting, not really
working with a specific purpose. If fatigue causes
the drift, insisting on finishing with the touchstone
of excellencewill ground and center you. It's also
good for building mental toughness.

Hitting new performance levels like this on
purpose will strengthen your expectations and
belief in yourself which will then allow you to rise
to higher levels of success.

Shoot for The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Besides being a golden boy on the violin Clayton
makes great decisions too. Perhaps the best was
marrying my favorite composer and author, Tania
Gabriele French. Tania understands what a powerful
tool music is in creating the atmosphere of growth and
prosperity.

If you need more prosperity in your life don't just let
your mind drift and sing "manana". See what is possible
using the power of music today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/secret_power.html

Use It Or Lose It

A number of years ago in a business I got to know
two brothers from South Florida. To maintain their
privacy I'll call them Chip and Dale.

A friend and I ended up training the 2 brothers so
we spent quite a bit of time with both of them, their
wives, and their children. Over time we heard their
life stories, and Chip and Dale were as different as
any two siblings could be.

Chip was ambitious, smart, respectful, fatherly,
generous, positive, prosperous, and loyal.

Dale was broke, working at a menial job, childless,
disrespected his wife, was usually negative, and
drank too much.

They had both had it rough growing up. An
abusive father, a mother who died, in foster homes
together, etc. I noticed one thing from hanging
around them so much though.

One of them had had gotten bitter, the other had
gotten better, much better. I'm sure you've heard
similar stories. They abound, and they all point out
a very important lesson.

You can use your past to make excuses and fail, or
use it to to motivate yourself and rise to success.

It's all up to you.

Shoot for the Stars

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Chip sought out help dealing with his past.
You can too. "Zero Resistance Living" is a unique
life mastery course that teaches you in detail how
to reprogram your subconscious internal
computer and change your life.

Don't let anything from your past stop you from
experiencing the success you deserve. See what
I mean today at:

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P.P.S. You will be a better shooter if your mind isn't
burdened by nagging issues of inferiority, failure, etc.
Let Coach Stan Kelner show you how to believe you
are a shooting machine today at:

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A Change Is Gonna Come

We've got a dog named Merlin. We got him from an
animal shelter a couple of years ago, and he's a
middle-aged Lhasa Apso. Looks like a small
sheepdog. Very smart. They were originally bred
by monks and noblemen in Tibet and for 2000
years were watchdogs for the monasteries.

When we first got him Merlin liked to run out any
open door. One day we couldn't find him in the
house, but we did find the door to the garage
cracked open. Somebody hadn't shut it all the way
and wily Merlin had taken advantage.

I went looking in the neighborhood and as I
rounded one block I heard dogs fighting and
started running. Poor Merlin was cornered by
a huge mastif in a neighbor's yard, and a small
frail woman was holding on to the big dog's leash
like her life depended on it. And it looked to me
like it did.

We got the dogs untangled, and Merlin's little
heart was beating 90 miles an hour. I took him
home, and you know what? Since that day he's
been a different dog. No longer will he bolt out
of any open door.

There are two ways change happens. One you're
familiar with. It involves consistency and
repetition, and since personal change involves
discomfort much of the time, it's hard to change
that way. That's why habits are hard to break
and hard to establish.

But Merlin didn't have to use a bit of
willpower to change his behavior, did he?. Fear
took care of that in an instant.

I smoked cigarettes when I was in high school
and college. I'm not proud of it, but in Kentucky
those days almost everybody did. It wasn't even
that expensive. I know I smoked two packs a
day.

I had a girlfriend in college later though who I
really loved, and we were always together.
One day she looked at me with those tender,
gentle eyes and said, "If you care for me like
I know you do, why would you want to shorten
our life together?" Not spoken judgementally.
That wasn't her way, but believe me, I was
pierced to the core.

Do you know what happened next?

I quit cold turkey right then and there, and
had no cravings, no withdrawal, no temptation
to smoke at all. I haven't smoked once since,
and that's been 36 years.

Again too, notice. Not an ounce of willpower
involved. Instant change.

The key in both cases to effortless change was
the very same thing - a HIGHLY emotional
event.

Fear, maybe even terror, in Merlin's case, and
love in mine.

If you are trying to be a better shooter, better
coach, or better anything, you probably have
changes you want to make. But maybe you
don't happen to have a high-intensity emotional
event handy.

Not to fear. You do have your imagination, and
you can create motivating events. If you've tried
using your imagination to effect change before,
and gotten lackluster results it's probably because
you didn't understand the the emotional factor.

Remember the stronger emotion you let yourself
feel in your visualizations the more powerful result
you can achieve.

Now, if you'll excuse me I need to go play with
Merlin.

Shoot for The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. The ultimate guide to generating high-voltage,
emotionally-charged, life-changing images is the
"Zero Resistance Living" course put out by the
Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation.

You can do it the hard way, or the easy way.
Forget about willpower and jump on the gravy
train today at:

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It's Your Life - Make Every Shot Count.