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FROM THE EDITOR A Message from BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss The Ethics of Service record. The result was that the corporate office refunded he following incident might not make the next ediall my labor costs and gave me two new tires, with the tion of the Be an 11 Guidebook, but it did make me stipulation that I not publicly name the auto center. Still, think a lot about how some businesses have a hard it was enough to make me think time distinguishing between right and twice about continuing to be a loyal wrong. customer. Last Labor Day I found a screw I share this story because one in the sidewall of one of my tires that trait that has always impressed me was responsible for a slow leak.
I filled about BFS is that we will do whatever the tire and brought the car to a local it takes to satisfy our customers – auto repair shop, which is part of a even if correcting a mistake means nationwide chain that my family and losing money. This commitment to I have done business with for nearly customer service is one reason BFS three decades. The salesclerk told me has been in business for 34 years that the position of the screw was such and is still surviving in this troubled that the tire would have to be replaced. economy, whereas many of our I agreed and had the service done competitors have gone bankrupt. immediately.
Regarding this issue, we are The following day I saw that the featuring many high schools that tire was low, and upon inspection have embraced the principles of the found that the screw was still there BFS program and have gone on to – they had replaced the wrong tire! achieve tremendous success on the I brought the tire back to the service playing field. Also included is the center. The manager agreed that their final installment in our Six Absolutes staff had made a mistake but said he series, a feature on the deadlift, and was not authorized to give me a new A junior at Alta High School in Sandy, an interesting editorial by sport/ tire. Say what?
Utah, Baylie Divino has a 4.0 GPA and liability expert Dr. Marc Rabinoff I called the national customer has been a model for many BFS training articles. She recently made a verbal on what it takes to be considered service number and was told that they commitment to Southern Utah University. an expert in athletic training. And would back up the decision of the Congratulations! check out some of the updates on store manager and that if I was still BFS athletes in our What’s Happening section – these unsatisfied I should contact the corporate office. Because I outstanding young men and women are great role models could not drive the car, I agreed to have the tire replaced. for America’s youth.
Then I wrote the letter from hell to the corporate Enjoy! office. I explained that even though it would cost me more Kim Goss, MS in legal fees and time away from work than the cost of Editor in Chief, BFS magazine the repairs, I would submit a complaint to small claims kim@bfsmail.com court so this incident would become a matter of public TNews and highlights from the world of athletic fitness FOUNDER/CEO QA great success for Rosemount High School QParish Episcopal: State Champions!
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TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT 40 Boot Camp Basics Q The tools you need for maximum performance PHYSICAL EDUCATION 46 The Dark Side of Sports: Who Is an Expert? Q Practical advice on determining whom you should listen to 2011 Power Clean Champs Set for Vegas The 7th Annual National High School Power Clean Championships will be held on May 14 at Bonanza High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. Val Balison is the meet director; for more information contact him at vjbalison@cox.net. The 2010 event resulted in two men’s and five women’s records broken. The best men’s lifter was Josh Gilbert of Global High School, who cleaned 270 pounds in the 136.5-pound bodyweight class.
This lift is considered the best lift, pound-for-pound, in the history of this competition. On the women’s side, the best lifter was Jesse Patryson of Green Valley High School, who cleaned 140 pounds.
Georges St. Pierre Continues MMA Run The fastest-growing sport in the world is mixed martial arts (MMA), and one of the most dominant fighters is UFC world welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre. And at UFC 124, held in Montreal, St. Pierre once again defended his title, this time over Josh Koscheck in a unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45). In St. Pierre’s corner is posturologist and rehab specialist Paul Gagné, a regular contributor to BFS magazine. If you would like to learn more about how the best MMA fighters in the world stay healthy and in shape, check out “Training Secrets of Mixed Martial Arts Fighters,” which appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of BFS magazine.
Charles Writes Checks! Strength coach Charles Poliquin, in partnership with USA Weightlifting, has established a reward incentive program for USA athletes who break American, Pan American and World records, both at the junior and senior levels. A world record earns $10,000, a Pan American record $2,500, and an American Record $1,000. Coach Poliquin recently got out his checkbook. At the American Open Weightlifting Championships, held December 10-12 in Cincinnati, Ohio, two athletes broke a total of five junior records. In the 56-kilo class, Darren Barnes clean and jerked 122 kilos and totaled 219, breaking the records held by Bryce Yamauchi.
In the 94-kilo bodyweight class, Jared Fleming clean and jerked 186 and 190 for two records, and totaled 340 for another. These records were held by Norik Vardanyan, the son of the famous Russian Olympic championYuri Vardanyan. Thanks for your great support of our future Olympians, Coach Poliquin!
Squats Are Back!
Team BFS weightlifter Tiara Lusk is an adjunct professor of business at Brigham Young UniversityIdaho. Recently we heard that she has been accepted to Pepperdine’s Ed.D program in Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy. Congratulations!
Ivan Abdjiev was a Bulgarian who become a world power in weightlifting and whose training methodology created a paradigm shift in the way weightlifters trained. One of Abadjiev’s first students was Alexander Krychev. Krychev won a silver medal in the 110-kilo bodyweight class at the 1972 Olympics, and in 3DW0HQGHVSKRWRE\-RKQ%UR] 1977 he was hired as Ivan Abadjiev’s first assistant coach. Recently BFS editor in chief Kim Goss had a chance to interview Krychev.
When asked about some of the controversial statements that were being made about Bulgarian training, such as squats being replaced by step-ups and lunges, Krychev replied, “During the time of communism, Bulgarian coaches visited other countries with the supposed intention of helping develop the sport. These coaches were instructed to mislead as much as possible to keep the true methodology a secret.” Krychev also said that the power snatch and the power clean are sufficient to develop explosiveness for athletes who are not weightlifters.
Just call her Dr. Tiara!
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Achieving Victory over a Toxic World Mark Schauss, MBA, DB, the author of Achieving Victory over a Toxic World (AuthorHouse 2008), has spent the last 27 years of his life researching the effects of toxins on our lives. Schauss says toxicity “occurs when something from the outside gets into our system that our bodies view as being foreign and destructive and causes negative effects.” Schauss says that Americans are “are exposed to about 80,000 chemicals,” and “in a study by an environmental group on people not working in industry, such as teachers and journalists, the researchers found that the blood of the subjects contained nearly 100 chemicals that did not exist 40 years ago.”
If you want to learn more about the effects of toxicity on the body and what to do about them, pick up a copy of Schauss’s book today!
3/$<(5352),/(6 Emily “Scooter” Stone Emily “Scooter” Stone is a 13-year-old eighth grader at Trinity Presbyterian School in Montgomery, Alabama. She began playing softball as a 6-year-old Dixie Darlings League player. Her pitching career began at age 10 when she attended a pitching camp at Florida State University led by legendary FSU softball coach Joanne Graf. Scooter was named Most Improved Pitcher at the FSU camp. She has been a Dixie All-Star at every level she has played: Darlings, Angels, Ponytails and Belles. Her Angels All-Star team played in the state championship game and was runner-up.
Her Ponytails All-Star team won the subdistrict and district tournaments and played at the state level. She primarily pitches and plays centerfield. She also plays second base. Highlights include pitching a no-hitter and being selected as the starting pitcher in the championship game of the state tournament. She played-up as a Belles League All-Star, meaning she was still eligible for the younger Ponytails league. Scooter began playing travel ball with the Dirt Devils of Auburn as a sixth grader, where she worked her way up to becoming the starting pitcher. This past school year she began playing with the Trinity Junior Varsity team and pitched all but three innings of their 2010 season.
She was voted by her teammates for the Leadership Award at the end of the season. She was added to the Trinity varsity roster (as a seventh grader) at the end of the JV season and played in the state playoffs. Currently, she is playing travel ball with Southern Belles Fastpitch of Pike Road, Alabama. She is the starting pitcher for the 14U league team. She will be playing both varsity and JV for Trinity in the 2011 season. She is also a frequent participant in pitching and hitting camps such as the University of Florida camps hosted by Coach Tom Walton.
Scooter is also a straight-A student, an official hostess at her school and an officer in the Student YMCA organization; she’s also very active in her church. She is the daughter of Gordon and Ellen Stone of Pike Road, Alabama.
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From BFS Magazine — January/February 2011. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
