Issue
Fall 2001.
15 articles
The Fall 2001 issue of BFS Magazine collects 15 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Squat, Bench Press, and Safety. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss, Greg Shepard, and Matt Shepard. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
WHY BFS SCHOOLS WIN
Traveling coast to coast conducting BFS Clinics translates into lots of seat time on planes and, yes, delays at the airport. Far from a totally bad thing, this time enables us to catch up on our reading. Coach Lou Holtz maintains that the major determining factors between where y
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SKELETON RACER (Tricia Stumpf)
Tricia grits her teeth as she picks up her 75-pound skeleton sled. At the right moment, she executes an explosive start, sprinting full speed on treacherous ice. As she reaches top speed, Tricia vaults herself forward coming face down on top of her sled. Her chin is now only inch
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TITLE IX: Girl Power
Let's try an experiment in time travel. It's the best way to understand how Title IX - the 1972 educational reform prohibiting discrimination in sports based on gender - came to pass, and why its sweeping ramifications took so long to take effect. If you can, think back thirty ye
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A FEW WORDS WITH BFS CLINICIAN RICK BOJAK
Many of us assume that those who spend countless hours studying to achieve higher-level academic degrees will naturally seek out the highest-paying professions. Others, such as Rick Bojak, believe that there are treasures in life more valuable than a big paycheck. Rick was an exc
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RESPONDING NOT REACTING (T.J. Murphy)
Just graduated from high school, T.J. Murphy experienced everything any other teenager would during his high school career. Including proms, homecomings, pep rallies, yearbooks, homework, school lunches, athletics and late night bonding with close friends. But T.J., who will atte
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NEVER SACRIFICE TECHNIQUE
The following is a letter from a concerned coach: Dear BFS, I recently had the opportunity to witness some high school athletes doing the BFS version of the box squat. Many of the athletes were using 300 pounds or more. Some of them much more. It appalled me to watch some of them
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President's Message Fall 2001
I received a letter from Cavan Sullivan of Porta High School in Petersburg, Illinois. He is an 18-year old senior getting ready for his senior year of football. Cavan stated that he enjoyed reading the BFS Magazine and the Be An Eleven Guidebook. I love playing football almost m
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NECEDAH HIGH SCHOOL: Smallest but Strongest
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. --Orison Swett Marden __________ Just as Ron Wolf took another Wisconsin program, the Green Bay Packers, and turned their excuses for not winning into reaso
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GOLDEN EAGLES SOAR TO NEW HEIGHTS (Naples High School)
For centuries, Mongolian tribesmen in Kirghizia (south-central Russia) have hunted from horseback using a Golden Eagle called a Berkut. It has earned the title Baddest Bird on the Planet as it hunts and kills wolves for sport. A Berkut will rocket from the air and drive its tal
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THE MEDICINE BALL PRESCRIPTION
Remember genie pants? Those baggy workout clothes popularized by M.C. Hammer that flared out at the thighs and came together tightly at the ankles? Ten years ago just about every lifter at the gym had a pair, and with all the psychedelic colors available many weight rooms looked
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KEEPING UP WITH THE JONSES
Winning a state title in wrestling is a significant accomplishment because wrestling is such a competitive sport, especially at the high school level. When two brothers win state titles in the same year, youre talking about an extremely rare occurrence. When three brothers win s
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MORENCI MIDDLE SCHOOL
Coach Dan Hoffman has been acquainted with BFS since he was playing high school football in 1981. He continued football through college and saw all the various training methods athletes brought with them. Coach Hoffman recalls, I kept some BFS principles and also picked up a lot
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BUILDING CHAMPIONS (American Heritage Academy Elementary School)
Not only does American Heritage Academy of Carrollton, Texas believe in implementing BFS programs at the high school and middle school levels, but we also believe BFS has a lot to offer our elementary kids as well. Starting in the 3rd grade, our kids learn to set goals, develop a
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FLEXIBILITY: Is it part of your program?
I believe that flexibility is the most neglected aspect of the athletes training program. Why? A lot of coaches/athletes feel that stretching takes too much time which, may take away from the REAL part of practice. These coaches/athletes are just not aware of the true benefits
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