This article was published by Ken Jelaski but I’m putting it
here for the one’s who are in the business of Indian sports especvially the
ATHLETICS that also includes the wrestling as well for them to read it and take some leaves out of the same
for developing Sports and athletics in India.
This article and the matters here would serve the athletes
including the wrestlers and the one’s who are into the TRACK events of games
and sports, like Hockey, Discuss Throw, Javelin , Shot-put etc. Basically for
the tracks events athletes, this also is a succor to the other sports that I
have mentioned here.
The Technical & The Assessment Aspect Of The Sports-::
In 2007, I Ken Jelaski , a Polish y birth but an American by citizen, and a BIO-SOCIO-PSYCHO analyst of sports at USA and one of seven finalists for the National High School Coaches Association Track Coach of the Year was asked to put his view in that competition as to WHY SHOULD HE BE CONSIDERED TO BE
In my third article, after this, something that would be I would like on the
technical or on the assessment aspect of the same which would purely be on
adding the strength on the bones and the muscles, but here the article, as it
belongs to Mr Ken, I just would like to add some points which might be very
important from the ATHLETICS point of view, or from the point of view of the
sports personaility.
The
SCIENCE OF SPEED TRAINING-:: Not A “ FLUFFY” Stuff To Build The Athletes
At first, Mr Ken Jelaski, had thought that he had gone far deeper into the science of speed training than anyone else in that room where he was presenting his Power-Point presentations, and he, prided himself, on having a friendly working relationship with several top researchers in human locomotion. He was of the view that and he thought he had a clear edge on the competitor that he was facing and over his colleagues, who seemed to rely more on the “fluffy stuff ” to build their programs.
This entire presentations and the competition for that post was conducted during the year of 2014 during December and this events is as good as seven years OLD now, but the speed training of the one’s who have come into the American sports, be it in boxing, wrestling, and in the games in swimming, running etc has been far and more or maybe even less if so, adopted by the American budding sports personalities and many in other countries, and the glaring example was the FIGHT that we saw between the Azebaijan wrestler when he was up against Bajrang Punia. It was also observed when Uguev was fighting for his bout against Ravi Kumar. It was merely the LIGHTING-SPEED that differentiated the Indians against the competitors that they wer fighting agisst. Some concession could be given to Bajrang for the niggle that he was carrying but he was sluggish on that day against his rival in the semis in terms of speed and that was the ultimate difference.
It is almost EIGHT years that this presentation wads put and I’m
putting it here as an article, however eight years later, I’m not so sure that
I should have dismissed “ fluff ” as a key
contributor to their athletes’ success. After all, evert athlete as an Olympian will boast of a far
superior pedigrees than I did , or whatever I have my stature as a Sportsman, relative
to career wins, which is confined to winning the, either the School
championship, or the Inter College ones, which is NOTHING when compared to the
events of an stature of Olympics, and neither I have any record of having
participated at any conference that relates to sports, or any national conference and I have never participated in
any state championships, individual
event champions, and neither I’m state
and national record holders.
This is just to poke into the fact of the subject that I have
mentioned above as this goes in a very LONG maner and way to determine a winner
and making them into a class of an athlete. On that day when Mr Ken was
presenting his points of view through the power-point, and as the bios of the six other finalists were
read during the banquet, his wife even turned to him and asked, “ Why are you
here? ” . …..
The “ PSYCHO-SOCIO ” Aspect Of Coaching At
The School :: A “ MISSED ” Chapter
Thanks to my good friends who had tipped him, and gave some very
useful points to discuss, and put in the presentation , he had come to understand the
bio-psycho-social aspect of physical therapy. As one member pointed out, “ If
counseling therapy is about psycho-social matters, physical therapy adds the bio to “ psycho-social.”
It’s probably been the psycho-social aspect of coaching high
school track and field that he had distanced himself from over the
years. That may have been a mistake. YES-
THIS IS THE MISTAKE THAT OUR COUNTRY IS CONSTANTLY DOING IT WHEN OUR TODDLERS
AND THE KIDS AT SCHOOL TAKE ON TO THE SPORTS AND GAMES AND THIS CONCEPT HAVE TO
BE IMBIBED AND TAUGHT TO THEM.
If this chapter had been taught at the school to Mahaveer Singh,
who was a SCHOOL STUDENT in 1980 when he finished FOURTH in wrestling at
Moscow, if this was taught to P.T.Usha
when she was just on the verge of passing the Higher Secondary when she first
participated in the Moscow Olympics in 1980, missed out reaching her FIRST
finals in that Olympics losing by a whisker in the semis, and if this was taught to Sourav Chowdhry who
just missed out making to the finals in the recently held shooting at Tokyo,
and if this were taught to the Salima’s, Sharmila’s and Rani Rampal or Vandana
Kararia who just missed out on making it to the podium after such an gallant
display, the story would have been different.
The Ken
Jelaski System of Coaching and Training - ::
Mr Ken Jelaski used LYNX
Reaction -Time to assess his athletes’ reactions to the starting command and
their times to 10 or 20 meters. It’s a nice piece of equipment that has
provided him to and with some good information and detailed analyses of his sprinters’
reactivity and acceleration. However, they while undergoing their training under him,
they would hate the sound of the automated starting commands coming from the
unit. After one or two trials, they were more focused on mocking the guy’s
voice than on the data from their starts.
Mr Ken like to run ASR sessions in distance covered over a
specific time. Asand when he was getting close to the state sectional meet, he
would or he might click off the scoreboard clock to buy a second or two in
order for an athlete to achieve his or her training goal. It , for most of the
time, result in an honest evaluation of that athlete’s workout. But if it would
give them the confidence they would need going into the sectional 1600, is
it wrong to choose “ psyche ” over “ science ”?
The legendary Jim Santos spoke many years
ago at a coaching clinic with not more than seven attendees. Jim gathered them,
including Mr Ken, together and spent a considerable amount of time discussing
the human or “ social ” aspect of track and field. It was one of the
best clinic sessions he had ever attended.
The Jim
Santos Method Of Inspired Motivation - ::
Mr Santos basically was a
Brazilian but after many years of learning at Brazil the manner in which they
made footballers from the BEACH playing football to an international hoiusehold
name and leaving Brazil to migrate to U.S for a still better avenue, he
innovated many theories out of the sessions that he spend in hours to see how
the Brazilains would motivate, and inspire the ILLETRATE toddlers playing
football at the beach to transform them with a burning desire to become a WORLD
CUP FOOTBALL winners, he first applied this technique, spoke and talked about his daughter, a C/D student whom
he felt could improve her grades if she found something to motivate her. When
she decided on her own to come out for track, he was thrilled. Her event of
choice was the discus.
This is an event on which Ms Kamalpreet
missed out, and throw was the another which gave India her FIRST ever TRACK “
GOLD” after 121 years at the Olympics. Coming back to Mr Jim, as an internationally recognized authority in
the sport, Jim purposefully tried to distance himself from his daughter’s
involvement, thinking she didn’t need that kind of pressure. But she started to
do well in the event, throwing over 110 feet despite very bad technique
and instruction from a coach who, as Jim noted, “ didn’t know what the hell he
was talking about.” He decided to step in.
Jim was coaching the great Ben Plucknett at the time and
thought his daughter would benefit from training sessions with a world
record-holder. But after a few sessions with Ben, her marks began to decline. Jim
realized that what motivated his daughter to perform well was her desire to
please a young coach genuinely interested in her improvement, even
though that he had no clue how to teach the discus.
The “ PLACEBO ” Effect and the “ D.A.R.D –Is
there anything as such existing at India.
Sometimes, for all our careful monitoring of performance
fluctuation and ability to assess neural drive, strength gain, and CNS fatigue,
the improvements we see in our athletes may be the result of something we are
doing—or not doing—which has a very powerful placebo effect.
Christopher Glaeser and Mr Ken have swapped stories about the
lengths to which they have gone to help relieve their own kidsand the kids of
U.S from debilitating shin splits. In Mr
Ken’s son’s case, he had expensive sessions with DPM’s, orthos specializing in
sports medicine, two different sets of orthotics, magnets, TheraBand, and other
strengthening concepts such as the D.A.R.D.—Dynamic Axial Resistance
Device.
The only thing that actually worked in getting the daughter of
Mr Santos or the son of Mr Ken, was in the case of the son of Mr Ken, was through
one football game or one track meet to the next was a trip to an area
massage therapist noted for treating Scottie Pippen’s back issues during the
Chicago Bulls’ run of championships.
No one still knows that
and even Mr Ken still also does not knows about the same, what made the
difference. The actual treatments, or the belief that what had worked for
Scottie Pippen would work for him—that he was in the hands of someone who
knew how to make him pain-free.
Tony Holler is a firm believer in the benefits of Muscle Activation Techniques and
refers to Mr Ken as skeptical. That is indeed accurate. But Mr Ken can’t
dismiss his confidence in the technique, and how that confidence may influence the
athletes he is training.
At that time in their’s Top
Times Indoor Championship meet, Mr Ken, had heard a coach talking to one of his
athletes who had just run an excellent time.
“ Did the Muscle Activation stuff help? ” he asked.
“ I
think so,” said the athlete replied.
And maybe the best explanation for it is related to something
Shakespeare noted in Hamlet:……. “ There
is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Bajrang Punia, Neeraj Chopra, and some others are suffering
through that niggles very badly and that will reoccur again and again in the
competition that they would participate and play….. This system as described in the picture and it's adaptation would help them develop their inner aspect of their body and the overall frame of their physical attitude and development for taking them far ahead in sports provided they are subjected to these learnings ..... The Indian Eves Hockey team has to be immediately put to these classes to learn and adapt themseves as the expectattions in the future from them would be very high and they need to learn from the module as described above and act upon them to keep them at ease all the time .....
Pic - :: The " B-P-S " System Of Mental Devlopement Of Sports
If you DO NOT HAVE a Mr Ken Jelaski, or a Mr Santos at
India WHICH YOU WILL NEVER, NEVER AND
NEVER have , PLEASE find out them at U.S.A, approach them and take their help
as they will DEFINITELY take you to the BEST to get you all out of these
painful niggles and put you to the TOP of MOTIVATIONAL and IMPROVEMENT session
to improve your mark for you to really improve on your standings…….
Sports Science is a BIG ZERO and SPORTS ACTIVATION AND
MOTIVATIONAL sessions and classes are BULLSHIT in India and if at all we take
them to these kind of the personalities that I have mentioned here and allow
these athletes to spend their time with them- THE GOLD ENHANCEMENT is for sure…….
The SCHOOL PLAYERS..... ALL for " HECK" It's Like Playing And Going.....
In the recently concluded Olympics games TV coverage, there was ONR Mr Times Of India....... He is supossed to be in the SPORTS of TIMES OF INDIA for so many a years and now he has taken it up for commenting on sports on the SONY TV Channel......
In one of the show-compering, he was referring to SCHOOL games and School Athletes....... he said that OLYMPICS are NOT the School type of games where the one's who play at the School can either compete or talk on the same...... the School games are like, or playimg for the School is like.....
" AAYA-KHELAY-AUR-CHALAY-GAYE "
P.T.Usha when she first represented India in the Moscow Olympics, losing in the semis of her run, was in the SCHOOL, Mohammed Shahid when he won that GOLD for India at Moscow Olympics was a School Boy at Varanasi representing the SPORTS HOSTEL , Lucknow while playing Hockey in the competition, and Mahaveer Singh, who missed that Bronze by a whisker, in the wrestling, at Moscow Olympics, in 1980 , was a School Boy at Uttar Pradesh but was in the Sports Hostel at Lucknow , competiting in wrestling representing that Sports School, ......he had finished FOURTH in wrestling at Moscow still being a School boy....
That Mr TIMES OF INDIA, still does not knows that the YOUNGEST EVER INDIAN MEDALLION WINNING GUY, WAS VED PRAKASH, AGED 14 WHEN HE WON THAT COMMONWEALTH GAMES WRESTLING GOLD FOR INDIA IN 1970..... was a School Boy and was a toddler then, coached by Guru Hanuman ......
I'm placing the picture of Ved Prakash with his CWG medal which he had won at the age of 14 in 1970 while he was a school boy and another picture of his bout against the Pakistani wrestler whom he had beaten him at the semis of his bout.....
YES- School mai khelna is AAYE, KHELAY AUR CHALAY GAYE...... winning the GOLD for India......
BETTER KEEP YOUR " SCHOOL " OF THOUGHTS TO YOURSELF AND TO THE BOGUS TV CHANNELS WHO ARE A " FOOL " LIKE YOU........
That sums up it and that is all .....
Regards and THANKS
THE " YOUNGEST " EVER GOLD MEDALLION OF INDIA TILL DATE, AGED 14 YEARS THEN , IN 1970 , WHICH THE PRESENT GENERATION OF INDIA WILL NEVER KNOW .....
This picture of Ved Prakash is for ALL those OLYMPIANS who were NOT even BORN then and for all over the WORLD for the people to know, that a SCHOOL BOY who was the and who STILL is the YOUNGEST ever GOLD MEDALLION for India in the International games for India
If you PLEASE talk less and speak sense, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE " RESPECTED " .....
This ARTICLE may be PLEASE shared all over the WORLD by anybody who reads it and that is a " REQUEST "
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Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .
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