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Bear Grassl

Jul 31, 2026

5:17
[chuckles]
5:17
I didn't come up with any of this.
5:18
Uh, but top elbow and bottom elbow, uh, is important.
5:22
And I think that what's interesting is we had a coach in our club years ago who told me one day, "Well, I teach kids to pass their hands apart first and then put them together late." And, and I never-- I don't think I was ever nice enough to this coach because I was like, "You know, I hadn't said that out loud ever, but I want that too." Uh, and people who put their hands together early end up being in a really bad spot, and we teach everybody to pass with their hands together in the middle of their body f- first.
5:58
That is if you are nine years old, you are sure as anything gonna be standing there with your hands together, and you're gonna try and pass it.
6:05
And so then when it goes to the side, well, you're gonna have your hands together then too, and you're gonna swing them over to the side.
6:10
And you're gonna swing them, and there's no way in the world you're gonna have your back shoulder high enough and your front shoulder low enough to make a wall.

25 MINS LATER

31:32
He's gonna see some things that make him cringe through all of the gyms he's been in and all the club tournaments." So give me a couple examples of things that when you walk into a gym or a club tournament that make you cringe.
4:05
So when you talk about fun, though, besides your dynamic personality, what else do you got going for you over there to make it fun?
4:12
Well, I think that, uh, y- you gotta play.
4:17
I mean, you gotta play a lot.
4:18
I am, I'm a pretty firm believer in that's the way we're gonna get better at doing this.
4:25
And I think that, uh, the less experienced you are, the less you need to be doing lots and lots of skill work.
4:35
I think that that sounds sort of backwards to a lot of people.
4:40
But if I said, "You know, you don't even really understand what the point of the activity is.

15 MINS LATER

19:23
[chuckles]

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