Issue
Spring 2002.
17 articles
The Spring 2002 issue of BFS Magazine collects 17 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Character, Power Clean, and Speed. Coaches and writers featured here include Greg Shepard, Kim Goss, and Matt Shepard. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
MAKING IT HAPPEN: Tucker Lane
On a crisp 1988 November day in Delta, Colorado, 5-month-old Tucker Lane met his future. During a break at the wrestling camp he conducted, legend John Smith sat baby Tucker on his lap. John's 1984 Seoul, Korea, Olympic gold medal caught Tucker's eye and eventually found its way
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TWO MORE WINS: Peru Central H.S.
Peru High School won the 2001 Class B New York Championship and credited it to their BFS Clinic last year and to the BFS Total Program. BFS: Coach Ewald, when did you start the BFS Total Program with your team? Head Coach Larry Ewald: We started doing parts of the BFS Total Progr
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CREATING STRENGTH COACHING POSITIONS
If you are talking about high school athletics and sports in Arizona, you are probably talking about the Mesa Public Schools. For example, in the past 15 years the 5-A football state champion has come out of Mesa 11 times. It is no coincidence that the Mesa Schools place a high p
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CAMDEN GETS PHYSICAL
Passing is for cowards! is one of the favorite sayings among football teams that emphasize the running game. Although this slogan is a bit extreme, it might be an appropriate one to put on the T-shirts of the football players at Camden County High School in Kingsland, Georgia.
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HOW ONE FOOTBALL TEAM OVERCAME HAZING
Some seniors subjected several ninth graders to initiation rites involving sexual harassment. Nothing new. Some of the same things had happened at a university I coached at in the 1960s. Nonetheless, it was a serious issue that had to be dealt with rapidly. Because of the sensiti
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THE DARK SIDE OF HAZING
In the premiere episode of the television series Smallville, the super powers of the young Clark Kent were sapped by kryptonite. In Clark's weakened state, bullies from the high school football team were able to strip him down to his shorts, tie him to a wooden cross and paint a
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THE PATIENCE AND POWER OF J.T. WALL
J. T. Wall didnt seem likely to become a starter on a Division I football team, especially one with the reputation of the University of Georgia. He graduated from a small, private high school and didnt have the speed, size or playing experience to attract the attention of the m
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JIM SCHMITZ'S WEIGHTLIFTING LEGACY
There are a few remarkable coaches in history who have set themselves apart from others by their accomplishments, inspiring their athletes to achieve what many thought impossible. Whats more, they have achieved their success with class and integrity, accepting their obligations
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IS WEIGHT TRAINING SAFE FOR KIDS?
Just about everyone in this country has participated in some type of resistance training, whether publicly in a health club or school, or privately with home gym equipment. And with good reason. Decades of research have proven that weight training is the single-most effective way
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WHY DO SO MANY ATHLETES LOSE FOCUS?
What can you do to have a greater chance for true success and happiness? One way is to follow the BFS Five Power Axioms For Success. An Axiom is like a formula: follow it and you should attain the expected outcome. Power Axiom #1 is to establish noble goals in a number of areas:
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RETURN TO GLORY: The Peck Pirates
During fall 2000 the Peck Pirates suffered through a football season of 3 wins/6 losses, and for the second year in a row did not qualify for the Michigan High School Athletic Association's state football playoffs. After that season the coaching staff decided to guide the upcomin
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TAKING THE 11 TO HEART
Presidents Note: Steve Carroll, head football coach at Simi Valley High School in California, lives, eats and breathes football, BFS and Being an Eleven. He even made sure that he got married on the 11th. So it was no surprise when he called me for a Be An Eleven Seminar. His at
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A CLUB OF THEIR OWN: Soroco High School
There is a Gary Larson cartoon that depicts a finishing school for gorillas. Walking in are straight and tall, intelligent-looking apes. Coming out are primates with hunched backs, forward head posture, furrowed brows and the slumped, scrunched shoulders that people get when they
ReadWINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS THROUGH STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING
KNOW WHAT TO DO A. Train primarily with free weights. Emphasize the hips & legs with Squats and Cleans along with their variations. B. Vary your workouts. C. Weights should only take 3-4 hours per week during the off-season and only two 30-minute workouts during the in-season. D.
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ONE BAD DECISION
Like millions of other teens, Mike Dayton, Jr. had to deal with the pressures and difficulties of a broken family. From his California birthplace Mike traveled with his mother to Florida when he was just six years old. His father and namesake, who was separated from him by a cont
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Spring 2002
Last August I did a Be An Eleven Seminar for a highly successful head football coach to kick off the season season. I had done two previous BFS Clinics for this coach at another school and he and his team were crowned state champions. Now, he wanted another BFS winning edge. Befo
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