Grace Be With You

There is a quality great athletes have you don't
hear mentioned too often. Michael Jordan has it.
So does Larry Bird, and Jerry Rice. Emmit Smith
has it and so did Walter Payton. Wayne Gretzky
too. And in baseball Derek Jeter and Ted Williams
come to mind.

My friend and fitness coach Ed Baran calls it
simply, grace.

Grace might seem like a better word for a dancer
like Fred Astaire or a figure skater at the Winter
Olympics, but think about it. It's what every
athlete should strive for.

According to Ed, grace suggests attributes like:

- moving easily without wasted motion
- having mastered your own body
- uncanny awareness of where you are in space
and time
- moving effortlessly and under control
- being at ease and comfortable in your own body
- being one in mind and body
- having strength with balance

A good shooter will always be poetry in motion to
me. There is nothing I find more graceful than a
beautifully arching shot launched with rhythm
and graceful body control.

Some people might be genetically blessed and
naturally graceful, but that's not the end of the
story. I believe anybody with reasonable
coordination can develop grace. All that's needed
is training that teaches body movement under
control.

Bodyweight exercises done with awareness and
breath control will do what weights and machines
can never do for your body, and the most in-depth
program on the market is the best-selling 'Combat
Conditioning' program by Matt Furey.

If you want to develop real grace in motion strap
on your cross trainers and run, run, run right now
over to:

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

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Eddie Baran has also taken his background in
bodyweight exercises and gymnastics and developed
a program specifically for women which develops
grace as well as strength, balance, agility, endurance,
flexibility and a killer, toned, lean athletic body.

Give the gift of grace and a finely sculpted body
this Christmas to the women in your life now by
jumping directly over to:

http://www.deandelker.com/body_sculpting.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.