Guest: Lee Taft, World-Renowned Movement Specialist
In this week's coaching conversation, world-renowned movement specialist, mentor, and coach, Lee Taft joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on basketball performance and movement.
Lee is highly respected as one of the top athletic movement specialists in the world. In the last 35 years, he has devoted most of his time to training all ages and abilities. He has spent most of his time teaching his multi-directional speed methods to top performance coaches and fitness professionals worldwide. Lee has also dedicated countless hours to mentoring up-and-coming sports performance trainers, many of whom have gone into the profession and made a significant impact themselves.
Since 1989, Lee has taught foundation movement to beginning youngsters and helped young amateur athletes, to professional athletes, become quicker, faster, and stronger. Lee’s entire philosophy is based on one of his most notable quotes, “Learning athletic movement correctly from the start is the foundation for athletic success.”
With the release of Ground Breaking Athletic Movement in 2003, Lee revolutionized the performance industry with his proven methods and strategies for multi-directional speed. His innovative approach to training has impacted how athletic movement speed is taught.
Lee brought to light the importance and fine points of the “Plyo Step,” “Hip Turn,” “Lateral Run,” and athletic stance. According to Lee, “Speed and agility done right are about making sure we marry the natural movements athletes have with the effective and efficient body control to maximize speed and quickness.”
Lee has been asked to speak at numerous global strength and conditioning and sports performance events and has produced multiple instructional videos and courses in multi-directional speed and movement training. In addition, Lee has written several manuals on movement techniques and speed development.
Breakdown
1:00 - Basketball Player Consultation
2:30 - Movement Specialist
6:00 - Basic Goals
10:00 - Skill Execution
12:30 - Seven Things
14:00 - Run Fast and Stop Fast
17:30 - Defensive Slides
21:00 - Recovery
23:30 - Long First Step
25:30 - Foot Position
28:00 - Stimulating Thinking
32:30 - Parkour
34:00 - Late Development Sport
35:34 - 36:46 - Hoopsalytics AD
36:47 - Perfect Footwork
40:30 - Acceleration
43:00 - Footwork
45:00 - Low, Low, Low
48:30 - How to Jump Higher
51:30 - Teach with Cues
56:00 - Static Stretching
58:00 - Dissipating the Lactic Acid
1:00:30 - General Movement Template
1:04:00 - Extrinsic Motivation
1:08:30 - Create Efficiencies
1:10:00 - Better Movement Patterns
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Bio: https://leetaft.com/meetleetaft/
Website: https://leetaft.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/leetaft
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leetaft/
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