Latest Skilldevelopment Podcast Episodes
Justin Ochoa: Creating TRUE Athleticism for Basketball
No Off Season Podcast - May 13, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes - VideoJustin Ochoa is the Founder of Gemz Training Sessions in Indiana USA. His vertically integrated system is truly one of a kind.
Marshall Cho: Building a Winning Culture
No Off Season Podcast - April 30, 2024 02:00 - 56 minutesToday Coach Marshall Cho from Oregon comes onto the podcast to share the game with us. I have been a fan of Marshall's for a long time and I know that he is a wealth of knowledge. A true trailblazer in his field, Marshall has an innate ability to bring communities together. Drawing upon his sk...
Will's Thoughts: Mental Health and Basketball
No Off Season Podcast - January 29, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutesAfter having some good time off in NYC it really allowed me to collect my thoughts and allowed me to step back and see the big picture. Having trained so many players from youth to professional level, one of the topics that I feel like is not talked about enough in our profession is the topic...
Slappin Glass: Pat Carney and Dan Krikorian
No Off Season Podcast - January 23, 2024 02:00 - 1 hourSlappin Glass has been one of my Go-To websites for the longest time. So to have one founders on was so exciting for me. Pat and Dan are a wealth of knowledge and just flat out lovers of the game! The topics we covered today included: 1.) How they got started with the platform 2.) Trends o...
Rob Gray "Skill Acquisition and Motor Learning Expert"
No Off Season Podcast - December 18, 2023 13:51 - 37 minutes - VideoRob Gray is a skill acquisition and motor learning specialist who is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University. He is also the Host of the Perception & Action Podcast as well Skill Acquisition Specialist at Boston Red Sox. Rob is the author of 2 very important books “How we Learn ...
Max Schmarzo: "The Future of Basketball Strength and Conditioning"
No Off Season Podcast - December 11, 2023 13:02 - 1 hour - VideoMax Schmarzo is the founder of the very popular athletic performance brand Strong By Science and provides very sound, scientifically backed program and methods for sports performance. Max is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to training basketball players technically as well as physical...
Will's Weekly Thoughts: Framing- The Lens We Choose to Take
No Off Season Podcast - December 05, 2023 01:00 - 5 minutes - VideoHave you ever had a misunderstanding with a teammate and get angry from something that they did, but when you asked them to explain why they did what they did they had a very moral and valid reason? All of a sudden you weren't so mad. That is being able to see something in a different frame. T...
Megan Griffith: "Turning Around An Elite Program"
No Off Season Podcast - November 27, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes - VideoMegan Griffith is the Head Coach for Columbia University women’s basketball. She took over at the young age of 30 in 2016. 2017 the team went 8-21. Fastforward 7 years 2023 Columbia went 28-6 an unreal turnaround. During the 22-23 season they went all the way to the WNIT championships! Her accom...
Will's Weekly Thoughts: How to Kill Procastination
No Off Season Podcast - November 20, 2023 07:37 - 6 minutes - VideoProcrastination is a topic that we all deal with. Today we talk about the four reasons that we procrastinate and what we can do to better prepare ourselves for when we encounter the feeling of procastination. Listen to this episode more than once, the methods are simple but the most important th...
Mitch Kirsch: "A Dive into Evidence Based Basketball Training:"
No Off Season Podcast - November 13, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - VideoMitch Kirsch is a basketball teacher based out of Mass and New Hampshire. Mitch is a huge advocate of Evidence based training when it comes to training The technical, tactical and physical aspect of the game. He has experience of training youth all the way to NBA superstars like Duncan Robins...
Will's Weekly Thoughts: Discipline vs Motivation
No Off Season Podcast - November 06, 2023 12:00 - 6 minutes - VideoDiscipline vs Motivation. What is the difference between the two? Aren't they the same thing and is one more important than the other? We are going to do a deep dive on how I define both of these words, and why motivation is definitely not something you want to rely on. During your time as...
Mike Dunn: "The Art of Shooting"
No Off Season Podcast - October 30, 2023 12:16 - 48 minutes - VideoShooting coach based out of New Jersey (East Coast USA) Mike has a tremendous amount of experience working with all levels from you all the way to the professional ranks. Today Mike and I discuss: 1.) His assessment of a shot and tweaks he can make to players. 2.) His progression of teachi...
55. Will's Weekly Thoughts: Pain + Reflection= Progress
No Off Season Podcast - October 23, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutes - VideoThe equation of Pain+ Reflection= Progress is nothing new, it's been around before any of us were even thought of. It's an unbelievably simple formula but not at all easy to do. We talk about putting ourselves too emotional pain, the worst kind of pain that we can go through, which makes us fe...
52. Yannie Chan "What is the Future of Hong Kong Basketball?"
No Off Season Podcast - October 16, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourYannie Chan is the first ever locally school girl in the history of Hong Kong to play in the NCAA. Today I have the good fortune to sit down with her and talk to her about her experience as a sophomore in college. Discussions that I have with Yannie are: 1.) Her outlook on the future of Hong...
54. Will's Weekly Thoughts: Adaptability is King
No Off Season Podcast - October 09, 2023 11:00 - 10 minutes - VideoFor this episode of "Will's Weekly Thoughts" we discuss the concept of adaptability and how it plays a huge role on the court and in life. Growing up in the early 2000s you were always told that repetition was the mother of all skill. Fast forward 20 years we now know that that is not true and a...
53. Glen Yang "Its not How You Start, It's Where You Are"
No Off Season Podcast - October 02, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes - VideoGlen Yang is a professional basketball player who has played for clubs such as South China athletic Association, Bay Area Dragons, as well as most recently the Winnipeg Sea Bears. Glen is actually the first player from Hong Kong who has played in Europe as well as professionally in Canada. Gl...
51. Will's Thoughts: An Asian Perspective of American Basketball
No Off Season Podcast - September 26, 2023 04:22 - 15 minutes - VideoAfter spending three weeks in the United States with nine girls from Hong Kong I feel like this trip has truly been the most important experience of my career. I speak about this eye opening experience being one of the first team in Asia to bring a girls team to play AAU against some of the high...
Jason Thompson: Fighting Against The Odds
No Off Season Podcast - September 18, 2023 10:30 - 41 minutesJason Thompson is a special guest. I had the good fortune of playing with him when I was in high school in New Jersey during some ad hoc tournaments. It has been so cool to watch Jason develop from a kid that went to Lenape High School, that was recruited by Rider University (Mid major D1) and m...
49. Building a Community: You are The Average of the 5 People you Spend the Most Time With
No Off Season Podcast - September 11, 2023 10:05 - 3 minutesYou are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with! It is very likely you have heard this saying and there is any even better chance that you simply ignored it. Building a community of like minded people who have the same goals as you is abolsutley imperative that for you to reac...
48. Ross Greenfield: Using "Good Drills" To Get To The Next Level
No Off Season Podcast - September 01, 2023 06:02 - 1 hour - VideoRoss Greenfield is one of the most innovative trainers in the fields of basketball and strength and conditoning. He does an amazing job combining the innovative and creative training methods along with scientific sound training technicques. Ross' passion has driven him to continue to improve a...
47. Pat Dickert: The Journey of Dunking from the Free-throw Line
No Off Season Podcast - August 21, 2023 09:54 - 38 seconds - VideoPat Dickert is a professional basketball player as well as a skill development coach. Pat is very well travelled. He has been to many countries including China where he has a large following eager to learn from him. During high school he went viral featured on different media platforms of him du...
46. Jon Giesbrecht: Playing Free
No Off Season Podcast - March 23, 2023 00:14 - 45 minutesJon Giesbrect is the Owner and Lead Instructor of Play Free, a membership training service that helps players enhance their basketball mindfulness, improving their confidence, resilience and focus. I have been a fan of Jon’s for a long time and have followed many of his lectures and talks on soc...
44. Todd Wright: Developing the A Truly ROBUST athlete
No Off Season Podcast - October 17, 2022 07:32 - 50 minutesTodd Wright is an assistant coach and Vice President of Player Performance at the Los Angeles Clippers. Todd is also Fellow of Applied Functional Science from the Gray Institute which is where I base the foundation of my training off of. Todd is someone that I have looked up to for a long time...
45. Andrew Rang: Creating a Red Belt Mentality
No Off Season Podcast - October 10, 2022 05:13 - 44 minutesAndrew Rang is the Head Coach of Trine University’s Women’s Basketball. In 2022 they made an amazing run in the D3 NCAA tournament and made it all the way to the Final 4. Topics that Coach Rang and I discussed today are: 1.) Culture building and creating a “Self Developed Culture” for the pl...
43. Coleman Ayers: Engineering a Worldclass Basketball Player
No Off Season Podcast - October 02, 2022 08:29 - 43 minutesColeman Ayers is the founder of ‘By Any Means Basketball” a globally known training service that shares world class information as well as an online platform for learning. He has also opened a state of the art training facility called “Detail” in Miami Florida. Coleman’s story on how he got in...
42. Joe Mazzulla: Interim Head Coach of the Boston Celtics
No Off Season Podcast - September 24, 2022 03:58 - 31 minutesJoe Mazzulla is the interim Head Coach of the Boston Celtics. Before his career began in the NBA Joe was a star player at the University of West Virginia under coach Bob Huggins. After his career in college, Joe went into coaching at the college levels for Glenville State and Fairmont state ...
41. Kayleigh & Kaylynne Truong: Leading by Example
No Off Season Podcast - September 17, 2022 02:20 - 33 minutesKayleigh and Kaylynne Truong play for the women’s basketball team at Gonzaga University (a very prestigious basketball and academic school located in Washington state). Collectively they have earned multiple honours from the West Coast Conference for athletics as well as their academics level....
40. Logan Schwartz: A 3D Approach to training basketball players
No Off Season Podcast - August 10, 2022 06:57 - 1 hourLogan Schwartz is currently a clinical professor at the University of Texas as well as the owner of Vitality Restoration that has been running for 10 years. Prior to that he as an assistant basketball strength and conditioning coach for the Men’s Basketball program at the university of Texas alo...
39. Troy Horne: The AAU Bible
No Off Season Podcast - August 10, 2022 06:53 - 42 minutesTroy Horne is a pop and rock musician who is also an author of a few great books mainly the AAU Bible and Mental Toughness for young athletes. Troy’s journey into the basketball world was almost by chance, when one of his sons was identified by a teacher as A high potential basketball pros...
38. James Maye: The journey from professional player to G League Coach
No Off Season Podcast - August 10, 2022 06:49 - 34 minutesJames Maye is an assistant coach for the Long Island Nets, before joining the Nets, we has also had experience working with the Greensboro Swarm. Prior to coaching, James has had an extensive career playing professional basketball overseas. He has been to countries such as Mexico, Hong Kong a...
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