Thats not something that happens or has happened a lot in my life, but had my sister and boyfriend and daughter here visiting me in denmark.
I was a fun visit but of course I got to check the results on the net:-)
Tonight I`m looking forward to watching my favourite collegeteam Duke play against Wake Forresty at 22:00 european time. Was some weeks ago I saw my last Duke game, but fun that Coach K has gone back to the old kind of Duke gamestyle.
Tommorrow first normal game witht he kids and that will be fun allthought the country is right now hammered with sickness and my team is no exception. Hade 9 of 16 players on last practise, one injured and 6 home sick.
Yesterday I was late to practise since I couldn`t get of work in time. I entered the gym and this gym has the entrance on the second floor and have glasswondows facing the gym, so I stood and watched forst for some time before I went down to the court.
I was proud...my 12 year old kids the weren`t jerking around, they had by themself started practise and when I came into the gym they were playing 3-3-3.
Have had many teams during the years, that it would have looked something like this:
- Lowered basket and dunking on 2,60 basket
- Throwing balls from halfcourt
- Sitting/standing and talking
- Using some other stuff in the gym like ropes, trampoline
And so on.....
These team/kids is the real thing and thats makes me so so happy since I have the chance to work with this group.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Swedish federation is looking for
a fulltime physicalcoach to work with the nationalteams. The add is in swedish but you can find a email in the add, so maybe its something for you.
Phsyical coach for swedish basketball
Phsyical coach for swedish basketball
Friday, January 21, 2011
Lifestyle vs Love for the game
Found this great article on hoopshype and just had to share it with everyone reading this blogg.
Lifestyle vs Love for the game by Rod Benson
A great movie about a legend that never made it bigtime is the movie
"Hooked - The legend of Demetrius "hook" Mitchell
He was better than me, better than Jason.....Gary Payton
You can watch the movie in Youtube its diveded into smaller parts
Lifestyle vs Love for the game by Rod Benson
A great movie about a legend that never made it bigtime is the movie
"Hooked - The legend of Demetrius "hook" Mitchell
He was better than me, better than Jason.....Gary Payton
You can watch the movie in Youtube its diveded into smaller parts
Monday, January 17, 2011
I always had a dream and the terrorists killed it
I guess the dream is still there, but because of certain things that have happened. I had to put the dream a side to take care of other things in my life.
My biggest dream has always to become a collegebasketball coach with responsibiltys/speciality in individual training.
When I was 23 years old because of that I was unemployed I was able to get 6 months paid to work somewhere internationally all paid by the swedish goverment. I contacted a friend who was coaching at Louisiana Lafyette, sun belt conference in NCAA d1 and ask if he could ask the headcoach if they could use me for a season.
He said yes and everything was going as planned I got the "schoolership" so the money was reserved for me. Now all that was left was work VISA that the colllege had to apply for (28 A4 pages), once that was cleared I could apply for my personal VISA and that was only gonna take maximum 2 weeks (for my personal VISA).
The work VISA had no swedish got before 5 monts after it was applied for, but I was happy I could wait.
I had decided that I would never come back even if I had to live in boxes in the streets of USA.....I was confident that my skills, and knowledge of the game would lead to work opertunitys.
Then that happened that crushed my dream there was these guys that think they will make a better world by killing others and totally controlled by religion they have tunnelvision and brainwashed to the max they decided to fly planes into the world trade center and create total caos in the USA.
After 7 months of waiting for the work VISA I got a letter in my mail and it was the saddest day in my life until that point in my life. It said because that VISA has gone passed 6 months without being cleared they took back the money that was reserved for me.
I was crushed....totally and even the newspapers had knowledge of me going to college, so they had written about it in the biggest paper in the south of Sweden. The following months was some of the hardest months in my life.
Every week I got the question "Aint you in the USA?", "When do you leave for Louisiana?" and so on. I just wanted to hide, some weeks was so hard mentally I didn`t wanna face the outside world, but I did but with pain and headcaches.
Everybody that knows me knows what love I got for the greatest game, every player that I coaches have felt my love fro the game, but NOBODY could even if they tried to understand feel the pain I had after my chance got crushed by the terrorists. It was a chance that not many get and I had the chance without any money to get it paid and go to a respected school that always are top 3 in sun belt conference and play NIT.
Headcoach never had a loosing season I had a chance of a lifetime the learn, to live and to do what I wanted to do.
This is something that have haunted me for years and still do. But the terrorists killed my dream, but its starting to grow again slowly, slowly, so I guess they killed it but its resurrecting again.
Maybe in some years I will start chasing my biggest dream again and by then I hope all terrorists have been burried in cave.
Last saturday I got the news that one of my close basketballfriends suddenly died at his home to young only 44 years old. All of a sudden everything else feels totally unimportant.
RIP Anders "Ante" Erixon you truly loved the game and you where a great friend and I will miss extremelly much, I see you when I get there!
My biggest dream has always to become a collegebasketball coach with responsibiltys/speciality in individual training.
When I was 23 years old because of that I was unemployed I was able to get 6 months paid to work somewhere internationally all paid by the swedish goverment. I contacted a friend who was coaching at Louisiana Lafyette, sun belt conference in NCAA d1 and ask if he could ask the headcoach if they could use me for a season.
He said yes and everything was going as planned I got the "schoolership" so the money was reserved for me. Now all that was left was work VISA that the colllege had to apply for (28 A4 pages), once that was cleared I could apply for my personal VISA and that was only gonna take maximum 2 weeks (for my personal VISA).
The work VISA had no swedish got before 5 monts after it was applied for, but I was happy I could wait.
I had decided that I would never come back even if I had to live in boxes in the streets of USA.....I was confident that my skills, and knowledge of the game would lead to work opertunitys.
Then that happened that crushed my dream there was these guys that think they will make a better world by killing others and totally controlled by religion they have tunnelvision and brainwashed to the max they decided to fly planes into the world trade center and create total caos in the USA.
After 7 months of waiting for the work VISA I got a letter in my mail and it was the saddest day in my life until that point in my life. It said because that VISA has gone passed 6 months without being cleared they took back the money that was reserved for me.
I was crushed....totally and even the newspapers had knowledge of me going to college, so they had written about it in the biggest paper in the south of Sweden. The following months was some of the hardest months in my life.
Every week I got the question "Aint you in the USA?", "When do you leave for Louisiana?" and so on. I just wanted to hide, some weeks was so hard mentally I didn`t wanna face the outside world, but I did but with pain and headcaches.
Everybody that knows me knows what love I got for the greatest game, every player that I coaches have felt my love fro the game, but NOBODY could even if they tried to understand feel the pain I had after my chance got crushed by the terrorists. It was a chance that not many get and I had the chance without any money to get it paid and go to a respected school that always are top 3 in sun belt conference and play NIT.
Headcoach never had a loosing season I had a chance of a lifetime the learn, to live and to do what I wanted to do.
This is something that have haunted me for years and still do. But the terrorists killed my dream, but its starting to grow again slowly, slowly, so I guess they killed it but its resurrecting again.
Maybe in some years I will start chasing my biggest dream again and by then I hope all terrorists have been burried in cave.
Last saturday I got the news that one of my close basketballfriends suddenly died at his home to young only 44 years old. All of a sudden everything else feels totally unimportant.
RIP Anders "Ante" Erixon you truly loved the game and you where a great friend and I will miss extremelly much, I see you when I get there!
5 games after eachother
Monday the 17th is a great day ub denmark for everybody who has the channel DK4, they show 5 games after eachother from the NBA with first game at 19:00.
My 98 boys will get togother home at one of the players hom to watched the first game together.
19:00 NBA: Knicks – Suns
21:30 NBA Pistons – Mavericks
00:30 NBA Clippers –Lakers
02:00 NBA Celtics - Magic
04:30 NBA Lakers – Oklahoma
One of the games its only the second half, but this is GREAT!
Thanks to Dk4 and their hardcore devoted basketballfreaks working at the channel.
My 98 boys will get togother home at one of the players hom to watched the first game together.
19:00 NBA: Knicks – Suns
21:30 NBA Pistons – Mavericks
00:30 NBA Clippers –Lakers
02:00 NBA Celtics - Magic
04:30 NBA Lakers – Oklahoma
One of the games its only the second half, but this is GREAT!
Thanks to Dk4 and their hardcore devoted basketballfreaks working at the channel.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Become your own best coach
Thats the title of a great book from former swedish golfcaptain Pia Nilsson that I read many years ago.
Its written in swedish and I dont know if there is a english version, but its a great read about awareness in your training and being able to correct yourself into greatness. In simple words how to become your own coach and together with a coach and your own coachskills to make yourself better, I say watch out!
Another sport that are great in using the athleets in getting better is track and field. The older kids help and teach tthe younger ones, the groups are often of skill and not age. They have a coach, but the coach eachother to become as good as the can of course with a coach, but its better with 12 coaches than one.
Of course if they teach the right things, but that why the expereinced coach is there to deliever the goods for them to learn with the help of eachother.
I try to use that thinking in basketball, where I want my players to correct, teach, help their teammates in practise and in games. I have done this for many years and when you get it going it makes your job as a coach so much easier.
A bonus of this a discovered during the years is that many of my players go and ask the clubs by themselfs if they can become a ass coach with some young team.
I have never told my players you should become coaches, I think their focus should be on playing basketball. So in that way I have not done what all clubs I have been in have told me to do. "Its important they become coaches, referees, other stuff in club" I have always thought there is a time for everthing and their goals to become a great players shouldn`t be stopped by them beeing a ass coach and they lose 4 hours a week where they could rest, practise, study.
Still most of my players have later on become coaches, you dont tell kids what to become, you guide them, give them tools and then they can choose what to do with the tools you give them.
Let kids be kids and dont let the clubs bad recruitment in new coaches be the reason why you kids become coaches, they should become it because they want to do it. Not because the clubs says you should do it.
So if I as a coach give them a tools in how to teach to others, how to solve a problem, how to talk to different people, the understanding that if my teammate becomes better I become better mentality.
The odds are very high in favor of many becoming coaches at least for some years, to be a coach formany years you have to be a little bit insain :-)
Its written in swedish and I dont know if there is a english version, but its a great read about awareness in your training and being able to correct yourself into greatness. In simple words how to become your own coach and together with a coach and your own coachskills to make yourself better, I say watch out!
Another sport that are great in using the athleets in getting better is track and field. The older kids help and teach tthe younger ones, the groups are often of skill and not age. They have a coach, but the coach eachother to become as good as the can of course with a coach, but its better with 12 coaches than one.
Of course if they teach the right things, but that why the expereinced coach is there to deliever the goods for them to learn with the help of eachother.
I try to use that thinking in basketball, where I want my players to correct, teach, help their teammates in practise and in games. I have done this for many years and when you get it going it makes your job as a coach so much easier.
A bonus of this a discovered during the years is that many of my players go and ask the clubs by themselfs if they can become a ass coach with some young team.
I have never told my players you should become coaches, I think their focus should be on playing basketball. So in that way I have not done what all clubs I have been in have told me to do. "Its important they become coaches, referees, other stuff in club" I have always thought there is a time for everthing and their goals to become a great players shouldn`t be stopped by them beeing a ass coach and they lose 4 hours a week where they could rest, practise, study.
Still most of my players have later on become coaches, you dont tell kids what to become, you guide them, give them tools and then they can choose what to do with the tools you give them.
Let kids be kids and dont let the clubs bad recruitment in new coaches be the reason why you kids become coaches, they should become it because they want to do it. Not because the clubs says you should do it.
So if I as a coach give them a tools in how to teach to others, how to solve a problem, how to talk to different people, the understanding that if my teammate becomes better I become better mentality.
The odds are very high in favor of many becoming coaches at least for some years, to be a coach formany years you have to be a little bit insain :-)
I wrote the question
How much effort is put into checking for swedishrelated players in the USA and got so curoius so I had to try myself.
I spent I total of 10minutes and have already come in contact with two players that have swedish blood runing in their body.
David Safstrom, plays at Lehigh Mountain Hawks
He´s height is 7`1, Weight 250lbs
More about him
Jake Lindfors plays at Albany Great Danes
He`s height 6`10, Weight 235lbs
More about him
Found some others also but the haven`t answered me yet on FACEBOOK, a great tool :-)
I spent I total of 10minutes and have already come in contact with two players that have swedish blood runing in their body.
David Safstrom, plays at Lehigh Mountain Hawks
He´s height is 7`1, Weight 250lbs
More about him
Jake Lindfors plays at Albany Great Danes
He`s height 6`10, Weight 235lbs
More about him
Found some others also but the haven`t answered me yet on FACEBOOK, a great tool :-)
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