Sports: What Makes Elite Athletes Great?

☑What separates great athletes from the rest of us?

☑So what do Tom Brady, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt, Annika Sorenstam, Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong, and Lisa Leslie have that you don’t?

☑This question has been on the minds of many people of late with the recent publication of Malclom Gladwell’s Outliers and Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code. If you have read these books, you might conclude that greatness has little to do with innate abilities – intelligence or inborn physical capabilities – and everything to do with motivation and circumstance. However, Read the rest of this entry »

ISN 002 | What’s Your Vision Like? | Interviewing Optometrist Dr. Greg Giles

Today we talk to our friend, Dr. Greg Giles, who happens to know what his vision in life is, literally.  All joking aside Dr. Giles is one of California’s leading professional Vision Doctors(Optometrist). His techniques and knowledge practice has even helped athletes with good vision to achieve great vision by increasing their cognitive thinking skills and reflexes http://www.lamesavisioncare.com/

 Items mentioned in the episode:

  •  Used his athletic ability to earn an education with a full scholarship from the University of Louisville
  • After an injury that prevented him from going further in Football Greg became a dedicated Optometrist who also works with Athletes
  • Starting with kids and while still in school he taught a group of young adults how to localize movement who were having trouble processing objects
  • Created a way to incorporate Sports Vision Therapy
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Cleatskins Commercial for the 2012 Sports Season

Cleatskins Commercial for 2012

✔✔✔Watch this link: Our members at ISN are proud to team up with, Rick Kay, dynamic inventor of CLEATSKINS for the 2012 sports season as the Selected California Distributor. “Keep Your Edge” and let the games begin✔✔✔

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20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Sports Technology

innovation, sports, innovative, new sportsFacts are Facts in Sports Technology. Increasing the ways we compete and are entertained

1  Engineers with the U.S. Olympic Committee keep improving timing and measurement technology. Light beams now record racers’ times to within a thousandth of a second.

2 Even John McEnroe can’t complain: Not to be outdone, professional tennis has adopted a computerized tracking system that shows whether a ball is in or out.

3 Who doesn’t want bigger balls? Unlike most other sports, tennis is looking to slow down. Blistering serves and short volleys can bore spectators, so game organizers have looked at using larger balls on slower surfaces to keep fans’ interest alive.

Length isn’t everything. By 1984, improvements in javelin technology had resulted in throws so long that the event was nearly moved out of stadiums. Instead, a redesign shifted the javelin’s center of gravity forward for a shorter flight.

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ISN 001 | Inspiration, Motivation, Success | An Interview with Ryan Moorcroft

In this episode of Innovative Sports Network, we talk with our friend, Ryan Moorcroft, about how his upbringing in fitness and sports has helped him achieve greatness.  How he became a collegiate running superstar and who has taken his abilities overseas while serving our country as a Decorated Military Soldier in the U.S. Army

Items mentioned in the episode:

  • [BREAKTHROUGH]
  • Ran Track and Cross Country at San Diego Mesa College. Ran a 1500 meter best of 3 minutes 52 seconds. Two Cross Country state Championships

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