Ep 79: Borrowing Brilliance

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Yeah, just the knowledge.

And it's about finding the balance for the right group and having an art to it.

You know, what works well in one level and then with one group doesn't always work well the next year at the next group and the next level.

Do you remember the first coach who made you completely rethink something?

I mean, I guess Holman, because we did things so differently than how we did things in high school.

So, yeah, probably him.

Like, in high school, like, I studied and read, but I didn't truly understand kind of how to build a program or why you do things differently.

I just, you know, I read the train hard, run easy, the Kenya.

ran a lot more but I didn't really understand any of the why behind all of the what's yeah so I was trying to follow their like lifestyle and stuff so i was trying to like follow their diet and some of that rather than like their training because i already felt like i have a coach my coach has been successful so i should probably just follow what my coach is telling me to do So, yeah, I would say probably Coleman.

Was he, would you say, the first coach that made you really think, I want to coach like that? Or was it maybe someone you coached under? Who was kind of the first big influence on your coaching career?

Yeah, once again, I think I am somebody that takes a lot of little things from a lot of different people.

Yeah.

I've had people ask me, what's my coaching philosophy or who's your biggest influence? I don't know that I can pinpoint it to one person.

You know, I think what I picked up from Holman and Brown was really just the grittiness and the toughness and put the nose to the grindstone and get back to work and don't make excuses and all that kind of stuff.

I think there's something to be said for all of that.

and so that's what I learned from them but then I learned a lot from Corey when I went from you know I had a really successful life I felt like I had a really successful collegiate career and got significantly better and then I went to Corey and it was completely different stuff than what we were doing at Mountain and so and they had a completely different philosophy on team building and culture and how to bring people together and so I learned a lot from him on And then, you know, and so every place that I've been, I've picked up a bunch of different things.

And I'm constantly trying to learn and read and get better as I go anyways.

And so I can still continue to read books.

And any time a new training book or philosophy book comes out, I read it.

And I try to pick and choose.

because

it's not person A's coaching or person B's it's your coaching style it's your it's EB's coaching philosophy that's been influenced by multiple multiple different types of people different types of training but kind of cultivated and And twist it in a way to make it your own.

What's the one lesson you still use that you've learned from previous coach that you still use almost every day or talk about, you know, daily or weekly with with the team we've got here?

that is just another one of those that there's a lot of there's a lot of different things I've learned from all these different coaches that I've worked with I don't know if there's once again I don't know if there's one thing that stands out most to me there's and it's not even just from coaches right like Or just track coaches, like I've read books on Bo Schembeck, the Michigan coach, and I've read coaches on Bill Belichick, Bill Parcells, and Bill Walsh, a lot of those.