Friday, April 26, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Kobe Bryant - Mind over matter - True greatness!
Kobe is a true living legend, what a killer, what mind over matter guru he is. Incredible tear his akilles and walks on scores two free-throws and walks out by himself.
When he played through court session when he was accused of rape and still showed up and put his numbers up, when he played for months with banged up fingers, surgery can wait.......Mind over matter, mind over matter!
The black mamba came to the NBA and I have to be honest I didn`t like him very much, but year after year he has matured and my respect for him has sky rocketed.
He is madly inlove with game, he doesn`t need the money he already accomplished more than most dare to dream about. But here is where the true ballers differ, they play because of passion, a hunger to win, a never ending love and hunt for improvement to their game.
They are not just there to play, they are there to play the very best they can each and every time no matter injured or sick the mind wins over matter.
One of his favourite quotes is "If you see me and a bear in a fight, pray for the bear"
I wish I could sit down and talk to Kobe Bryant for a couple of hours, the questions are many and the learnings would be priceless but......well I will stop there stranger things has actually happened in the world :-)
When he played through court session when he was accused of rape and still showed up and put his numbers up, when he played for months with banged up fingers, surgery can wait.......Mind over matter, mind over matter!
The black mamba came to the NBA and I have to be honest I didn`t like him very much, but year after year he has matured and my respect for him has sky rocketed.
He is madly inlove with game, he doesn`t need the money he already accomplished more than most dare to dream about. But here is where the true ballers differ, they play because of passion, a hunger to win, a never ending love and hunt for improvement to their game.
They are not just there to play, they are there to play the very best they can each and every time no matter injured or sick the mind wins over matter.
One of his favourite quotes is "If you see me and a bear in a fight, pray for the bear"
I wish I could sit down and talk to Kobe Bryant for a couple of hours, the questions are many and the learnings would be priceless but......well I will stop there stranger things has actually happened in the world :-)
Monday, February 25, 2013
Soon summer - Are you going to camp?
Camp boys&girls 2001-2004
Hørsholm Basketball Camp (29june-2july)
Denmark
More info
Camp boys&girls 1995-2000
Hørsholm Basketball Camp (3 july-7 july)
Denmark
More info
Camp boys&girls born 1997-2003
Sparta Moscow Camp (july)
10 days
Russia
More info (only danish): Camp Russia
Camp girls born 1995-2001
Girls Got Game (1 july-5 july)
Holbæk, Denmark
Denmark
More info
Camp boys&girls
North West Summer Camp
Elite Camp boys&girls born 1995-1997
Youth Camp boys&girls born 1996-2000
Minicamp boys&girls born 2001-2003
Daycamp boys&girls born 2003-2005
Angelholm, Sweden
More info
Camp boys&girls
Wbsc Super Camp 2013
Ages 14-20
Italy
More info
Hørsholm Basketball Camp (29june-2july)
Denmark
More info
Camp boys&girls 1995-2000
Hørsholm Basketball Camp (3 july-7 july)
Denmark
More info
Camp boys&girls born 1997-2003
Sparta Moscow Camp (july)
10 days
Russia
More info (only danish): Camp Russia
Camp girls born 1995-2001
Girls Got Game (1 july-5 july)
Holbæk, Denmark
Denmark
More info
Camp boys&girls
North West Summer Camp
Elite Camp boys&girls born 1995-1997
Youth Camp boys&girls born 1996-2000
Minicamp boys&girls born 2001-2003
Daycamp boys&girls born 2003-2005
Angelholm, Sweden
More info
Camp boys&girls
Wbsc Super Camp 2013
Ages 14-20
Italy
More info
Friday, February 8, 2013
What did just happen?
As a coach for youth players you see many strange things happen on court. Bad descisions in when to do what and so on, crazy shoots, strange reactions and sometimes you think what the ****just happened, what did she/he think when he/she decided to do that!?
But as they mature and learn more about the game and themselves "strange" things happening on court happens less and less. It will never go away totally and sometimes at least I forget that crazy things happen even on the highest levels just not so often.
Found this great video on youtube, enjoy even the ones on highest level screw up in so many ways and we should never forget that :-)
But as they mature and learn more about the game and themselves "strange" things happening on court happens less and less. It will never go away totally and sometimes at least I forget that crazy things happen even on the highest levels just not so often.
Found this great video on youtube, enjoy even the ones on highest level screw up in so many ways and we should never forget that :-)
Monday, January 28, 2013
I`m good when I`m good and when I`m bad I`m better!
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,
you would never think a negative thought.”
Simply a great quote....Had a good game with the boys last weekend and one of my players had one of his best games ever and of course this weekend that just passed he broke his arm :-)
Its ironic isn`t it, but "only" 3 weeks and then he can start again, so his left arm will do some extra work in practice.
Also had a good game with the girls this passed weekend, with two normal starters out because of sickness this ******* flue! We had a tough game against our rivals and we have only beaten them once before and this time becam the second win after a good first half, they switched to zone defense for the rest of the game and that mad us doubt it a little bit since we havent spent "any" time on zone offense. But when the time run out we stood there as winners with 53-49.
Nice win and the rest of the sunday was a joy and I finished it of with actually a great NBA game ( i know surprised seeing NBA and great in the same sentence from me)
But both Miami and Boston actually played defense and showed real skills this sunday and after 2 Ot`s Boston won to make my sunday even better.
My team is the Lakers, but any team playing Miami is my team also :-)
Have a great week.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Lets have a great 2013!
(Not so much about basketball in this blog today, but maybe you will find it intersting anyway)
Most of the snow is gone and the sky is full of moist instead of rain and melting snow all around me fathers place in the south of Sweden. Sitting here and listening to some danish music on youtube and relaxning its the day after christmas and Santa Claus gifts has been recieved by many children around the world. One of the happiest is my sisters daughter 6 years old and to see here smile, scream and go totally hyper by what she recieved makes every christmas special.
Personally christmas is as dead to me as the NBA it used to be great when everbody (the greats) was around, but the tradition keeps living for the new generations and wtf., just because I dont like it doesn`t mean that everyone else also should dislike.
Christmas time is a time for reflection of the year it is at least for me and every year no matter how busy I have been around christmas you at least get a couple of days without work and basketball. Reflection time is very valauble and it if often forsaken in the lifetempo that is nowdays.
I think this will be a long blogg I have so many things a want write mostly for myself, but maybe it will bring a thought or inspire in some way, some of you that actually are reading "my world of basketball".
2010, was the year when I finally was able to change my life in a manor, that actually makes it possible for me to gain control of what I can do in the future. I decided to move to Denmark to work and to coach basketball in one of the best clubs in Denmark. I had some personal wishes and goals when I changed country code from +46 to +45.
But like many things in life things dont actually go as planned, I moved over the ocean and was suppose to start working in a store, that took 1 month longer so not a good start. But thanks to great friends and family I managed to scramble together survival money. My personal goals was impossible to continue with due to the situation and of course I had only touched the surface of the problems I was gonna go through.
30 of August, 2010 I finally started working and I managed to work for like 9 days then on my first tournament with my new team boys 98 after a great weekend, where the played themselves to the final of a good tournament in Stockholm, Sweden they won the silver. We where happy since we didn`t see the final as a loss, we kept fighting and we gained respect against one of the very best nordic teams.
That happiness turned into caos on our way home, when our train crashed into a big **** tractor that had derailed over to our track.
Thanks to luck I guess none of the boys was badly injured, but we had at the hospital and one had to stay over night to secure his headinjury. I was the worst trainaccident in Swedish railway history and I had coached the boys for 3 weeks. Not a great situation, butme and my ass coach did a tremendous job of keeping it together and after 13 hours of mayhem we we finally home.
It was for me the start of a shoulder injury that really slowly was killing me from the inside out, pain every minute, some days worse than others, but i tried to keep the smile on my face for the kids, to keep my job and of course for myself. I´m a positive guy normally but this september in 2010 was the start of almost 2 years of acting positive, not beeing positive.
2011 - I dont remember much except basketball in this year, it was the hardest year of my life and only the closest of my friends really knew how bad i felt. The whole was a fight to go and work and mentally restrain the pain in my shoulder so I could function. I needed to work to live, but work was killing me from the inside, but I had to suck it up.
2012 - finally some changes up in this **** at the end of 2011 there was actually some good news. After fighting and seeing every doctor, been forgotten by the system and more I got a time to meet a surgeon. Later in the beginning of 2012 it was decided that I needed shoulder surgery. I had been going the physiotherapy since september 2010 and now it was Janaury 2012 and the surgoen after looking at the MRA said : "Well, you could go to pshysio for all your life and it wouldn´t help, look here".
The accident had smashed my shoulder badly and no matter how much I trained it wouldn`t help.
March, 2012 - Finally time for surgery I have never been so nervous since there are no garanties with surgery, it could be worse, better or the same. If it would have been nr 1 or 3 of those 3 I dont now how I would have managed I would propably gone insane.
He made a double fix in the shoulder, my joint capsle and bicep muscle had both been badly damaged. The jointcapsle was smashed, so my upper arme went over the edge of the capsle. He put a metallic screw there to fix it in place and cleaned up the crushed small bone pieces.
The bicep muscle had moved out of its channel and had to be lifted up and replaced and he had to create a new channel for it since it had moved about 1 cm from where is was before the accident. No wonder I had pain and **** to all doubters a *** to all that thought I was a criebaby.
He did a super job and in writing this I`m actually ashamed of not showing hime more gratitude since he really gave me my life back.
For almost two year it could take me 1-4 hours to fall asleep because of the pain. Now months after the surgery I can fall asleep quickly and as everybody know sleep is important and effects so many other parts of your life when you dont get.
My shoulder/arm will never be 100%, but at least I`m free of the constant pain that I had for so long.
2012 is one of the worst years since my father was diagnosed with cancer that really cant be cured, but to be a little EGOcentralistict at least something was better inmy life, no more constant pain.
I have so many things to greatful to, my old friends that have stuck with my during the years and my new friends here in Denmark that mostly know the basketball coach side of me, my family and my two great teams that I coach here.
During this period 12/9, 2010 to todays date it has been them that have made me push forward and not to give up. Maybe will sound strange but my teams has been the most important factor for me in this hard times, going on 20 years as a coach now as you know basketball means a lot to me. For many weeks I could go to practise and "forget" about the pain, forget about most of the problems case I had other "problems" to fix.
They are mostly positive and when you hang around positive people its much easier to stay positive.
To see them learn, compete, grow and win was like a painkiller like no other. I`m a thinker that just how I´m and I sometimes wonder what if.....that shit happened and I had no great interest liek basketball. I truly think I would have gone under as human. Basketball is my drug and thank good it works everytime.
Since I moved here I have gotten presents one my birthdays and christmas gifts from my teams these gifts mean so much that I cant describe it in words. Cause to me they say: thank you!
Thanks for the all the hours, thoughts you give us every week in teaching us basketball & life.
So many coaches do this around the world in their sparetime and really makes a huge difference in kids lifes.
2013 is soon coming and it should be one of the greatest years ever in my life and I wish they same to all of you.
Big thanks to all people around supporting me for the last years I can never payback what you have done for me, but I will try.
Most of the snow is gone and the sky is full of moist instead of rain and melting snow all around me fathers place in the south of Sweden. Sitting here and listening to some danish music on youtube and relaxning its the day after christmas and Santa Claus gifts has been recieved by many children around the world. One of the happiest is my sisters daughter 6 years old and to see here smile, scream and go totally hyper by what she recieved makes every christmas special.
Personally christmas is as dead to me as the NBA it used to be great when everbody (the greats) was around, but the tradition keeps living for the new generations and wtf., just because I dont like it doesn`t mean that everyone else also should dislike.
Christmas time is a time for reflection of the year it is at least for me and every year no matter how busy I have been around christmas you at least get a couple of days without work and basketball. Reflection time is very valauble and it if often forsaken in the lifetempo that is nowdays.
I think this will be a long blogg I have so many things a want write mostly for myself, but maybe it will bring a thought or inspire in some way, some of you that actually are reading "my world of basketball".
2010, was the year when I finally was able to change my life in a manor, that actually makes it possible for me to gain control of what I can do in the future. I decided to move to Denmark to work and to coach basketball in one of the best clubs in Denmark. I had some personal wishes and goals when I changed country code from +46 to +45.
But like many things in life things dont actually go as planned, I moved over the ocean and was suppose to start working in a store, that took 1 month longer so not a good start. But thanks to great friends and family I managed to scramble together survival money. My personal goals was impossible to continue with due to the situation and of course I had only touched the surface of the problems I was gonna go through.
30 of August, 2010 I finally started working and I managed to work for like 9 days then on my first tournament with my new team boys 98 after a great weekend, where the played themselves to the final of a good tournament in Stockholm, Sweden they won the silver. We where happy since we didn`t see the final as a loss, we kept fighting and we gained respect against one of the very best nordic teams.
That happiness turned into caos on our way home, when our train crashed into a big **** tractor that had derailed over to our track.
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| I was sitting where the window hangs out |
It was for me the start of a shoulder injury that really slowly was killing me from the inside out, pain every minute, some days worse than others, but i tried to keep the smile on my face for the kids, to keep my job and of course for myself. I´m a positive guy normally but this september in 2010 was the start of almost 2 years of acting positive, not beeing positive.
2011 - I dont remember much except basketball in this year, it was the hardest year of my life and only the closest of my friends really knew how bad i felt. The whole was a fight to go and work and mentally restrain the pain in my shoulder so I could function. I needed to work to live, but work was killing me from the inside, but I had to suck it up.
2012 - finally some changes up in this **** at the end of 2011 there was actually some good news. After fighting and seeing every doctor, been forgotten by the system and more I got a time to meet a surgeon. Later in the beginning of 2012 it was decided that I needed shoulder surgery. I had been going the physiotherapy since september 2010 and now it was Janaury 2012 and the surgoen after looking at the MRA said : "Well, you could go to pshysio for all your life and it wouldn´t help, look here".
The accident had smashed my shoulder badly and no matter how much I trained it wouldn`t help.
March, 2012 - Finally time for surgery I have never been so nervous since there are no garanties with surgery, it could be worse, better or the same. If it would have been nr 1 or 3 of those 3 I dont now how I would have managed I would propably gone insane.
He made a double fix in the shoulder, my joint capsle and bicep muscle had both been badly damaged. The jointcapsle was smashed, so my upper arme went over the edge of the capsle. He put a metallic screw there to fix it in place and cleaned up the crushed small bone pieces.
The bicep muscle had moved out of its channel and had to be lifted up and replaced and he had to create a new channel for it since it had moved about 1 cm from where is was before the accident. No wonder I had pain and **** to all doubters a *** to all that thought I was a criebaby.
He did a super job and in writing this I`m actually ashamed of not showing hime more gratitude since he really gave me my life back.
For almost two year it could take me 1-4 hours to fall asleep because of the pain. Now months after the surgery I can fall asleep quickly and as everybody know sleep is important and effects so many other parts of your life when you dont get.
My shoulder/arm will never be 100%, but at least I`m free of the constant pain that I had for so long.
2012 is one of the worst years since my father was diagnosed with cancer that really cant be cured, but to be a little EGOcentralistict at least something was better inmy life, no more constant pain.
I have so many things to greatful to, my old friends that have stuck with my during the years and my new friends here in Denmark that mostly know the basketball coach side of me, my family and my two great teams that I coach here.
During this period 12/9, 2010 to todays date it has been them that have made me push forward and not to give up. Maybe will sound strange but my teams has been the most important factor for me in this hard times, going on 20 years as a coach now as you know basketball means a lot to me. For many weeks I could go to practise and "forget" about the pain, forget about most of the problems case I had other "problems" to fix.
They are mostly positive and when you hang around positive people its much easier to stay positive.
To see them learn, compete, grow and win was like a painkiller like no other. I`m a thinker that just how I´m and I sometimes wonder what if.....that shit happened and I had no great interest liek basketball. I truly think I would have gone under as human. Basketball is my drug and thank good it works everytime.
Since I moved here I have gotten presents one my birthdays and christmas gifts from my teams these gifts mean so much that I cant describe it in words. Cause to me they say: thank you!
Thanks for the all the hours, thoughts you give us every week in teaching us basketball & life.
So many coaches do this around the world in their sparetime and really makes a huge difference in kids lifes.
Big thanks to all people around supporting me for the last years I can never payback what you have done for me, but I will try.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Alt+Delete - Restart - Basketball Never Stops
A great journey started about 20 years ago I found the role of coaching basketball, it was and still is my passion in life I live it, breathe it and dream about it is consums most of my time. I have become better during the last years to give it a little rest, but its hard as hell.
You might call me a idiot, but "every" minut of every week I think about how I can do things better as a coach or try to find solution to get that kid to learn a skill.
Its a sickness in its finest form and the cure is to go to practise and try to make the thoughts reality.
I worked for 7 years with basketball fulltime in Sweden and fulltime with basketball in Sweden or in other nordic countries doesn`t mean fulltime on the court and with admin things regarding the teams/players you coach, but most times you need to do a lot o work which has no interest to you or doesn`t really use your skills as a human/coach.
If you wanna work with basketball you just have to accept the terms and if complain you will be quickly reminded how lucky you are to be able to work with basketball and that many want your job.
Luck has nothing to do with it, more naive thoughts of a better tomorrow at least it was for me.
When I took my first fulltime "basketball" job I knew the following:
Pay will not be high, it will be very low
I have to do things or coach something I have no interest in doing or coaching
I have to accept doing a lot of hours in certain periods of the year.
Most of my workhours I could plan myself
I will work with the greatest sport in the world
I was OK with that since the naive me was thinking clubs will try to reach a more pro level in all their aspects of the organization.
My first basketball job ended after........WELL, if I get the possibilty to write a book in the future you can read all about in detail there, but lets keep this for them that need to know basis for now.
The book will be entertaining I can promise you that, you wouldn`t believe all the crazyness that goes around in organizations, but rarely it comes out cause people are afraid of loosing their job or future jobs in basketball.
You might call me a idiot, but "every" minut of every week I think about how I can do things better as a coach or try to find solution to get that kid to learn a skill.
Its a sickness in its finest form and the cure is to go to practise and try to make the thoughts reality.
I worked for 7 years with basketball fulltime in Sweden and fulltime with basketball in Sweden or in other nordic countries doesn`t mean fulltime on the court and with admin things regarding the teams/players you coach, but most times you need to do a lot o work which has no interest to you or doesn`t really use your skills as a human/coach.
If you wanna work with basketball you just have to accept the terms and if complain you will be quickly reminded how lucky you are to be able to work with basketball and that many want your job.
Luck has nothing to do with it, more naive thoughts of a better tomorrow at least it was for me.
When I took my first fulltime "basketball" job I knew the following:
Pay will not be high, it will be very low
I have to do things or coach something I have no interest in doing or coaching
I have to accept doing a lot of hours in certain periods of the year.
Most of my workhours I could plan myself
I will work with the greatest sport in the world
I was OK with that since the naive me was thinking clubs will try to reach a more pro level in all their aspects of the organization.
My first basketball job ended after........WELL, if I get the possibilty to write a book in the future you can read all about in detail there, but lets keep this for them that need to know basis for now.
The book will be entertaining I can promise you that, you wouldn`t believe all the crazyness that goes around in organizations, but rarely it comes out cause people are afraid of loosing their job or future jobs in basketball.
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