Damon spent his life doing the things he cared about with the people he cared about, he always had his priorities in order, and he helped the people around him realize what their priorities should be. That is true greatness, in my book.
Nathan McClallen, Athletic Director and Lead P.E. Teacher at Founders Classical Academy of Leander (TX) joins host Scot Bertram to discuss what a successful P.E. class looks like, how to put students in positions to succeed, and different ways to reach goals as a P.E. teacher.
The best possible outcome of this analysis is “there was nothing I could have done differently or would do differently next time”, and that outcome sucks. It’s immeasurably frustrating to be in a never-ending battle against human frailty—entropy itself is rooting against you.
Being filmed by a multi-person camera crew, taking instructions on which camera to look at and not look at, and doing all of this on a “set” was totally new to me, and it’s something I never could have done a few years ago. Like, not even attempted, much less attempted poorly.
Why do we have celebrities throw first pitches? The entire point is seeing someone who is famous for not-baseball reasons do a baseball thing under pressure. It’s weird to watch a first pitch and comment on everything except the actual throw.
Why do we have celebrities throw first pitches? The entire point is seeing someone who is famous for not-baseball reasons do a baseball thing under pressure. It’s weird to watch a first pitch and comment on everything except the actual throw.
The rules of the game matter, because people respond to incentives. This lesson is a breeze to teach in Economics class, but it’s essential to survival as a P.E. teacher. All teachers have to learn how to adapt on the fly, but the physical aspect of P.E. gives it a sense of urgency. Games can break down quickly, and if you don’t recognize it and know how to fix it, you’re gonna have a bad time.
In Any Given Sunday, Al Pacino said “Football is a game of inches”. Well, track is a game of half inches. Of half of half of inches. Of tenths and hundredths of seconds. It is hard to split the margin for error any finer. As races get shorter, the margin for error does, too. At our first meet this year, one of our girls ran the 100m in 13.90 seconds, a PR by 0.38 seconds. That’s a huge improvement, but if she had cut off an additional five hundredths (0.05), she would have finished three places higher!
What is the first step on the road to mental toughness? To being capable of competitive greatness? Competition is a broad topic. It doesn’t have … Read more
Every season you live a whole life—beginning, middle, and end—and you share it with your team. They aren’t all pleasant lives, but they are captivating. I live and die at least once every year, then I come back eager for more.