Vintage Baseball Warms The Heart

Wow…I saw this poster today and it just warmed my heart! I love this time of year…actually any time of year baseball is being played!

I just had to share it with you and brighten up your day if you are a baseball lover like we are! Enjoy!

Play Like A Champion,

Kimberly Edwards
Director

P.S. If you click on the picture above, you are able to purchase a copy of this fantastic, vintage baseball poster!

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Instructional Rowing Video

If you want to discover the real secret behind great rowing check out this video.
Intructional Rowing…

Thevideo takes just a second to get into it…but it is a great demonstration of the proper technique and rowing rhythm. They use some glow sticks in the dark to help you really get it.

It’s pretty cool. Actually it’s one of the best I have seen.

Check it out… Instructional Rowing Secrets and Glow Sticks…

To Your Immediate and Lasting Rowing Success,

Kenney Jr.
Director

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The Mind Of A Real Ace Athlete!

Being an ace athlete requires a mindset. You must believe in your heart and mind that you are meant to be an ace athlete.

This mindset will put a fiery enthusiasm in each of your training sessions and performances. You will not settle for mediocre results; you will aim for the best results. Armed with this mindset, you are not just aiming to win competitions. You are aiming for a generation of ace players.

Olympic athletes, especially from nationalistic countries like the U.S. and Russia (especially the former U.S.S.R.), have been training hard with the prestige of their country in mind. Olympic bets are out to compete for future generations.

Nationalistic countries often produce a succession of world class champions because they train not only to be real “ace” athletes and win for their countries, but they also aim to someday reproduce ace players of higher caliber.

Not all the international sports players are like-minded. Some athletes are near-sighted and they focus only on their present win. Once the medal is at hand, they go back to their countries and celebrate, and then retire.

On one hand, many international athletes can be branded as ace athletes. They start out young and train under a real master of the sport. They excel and beat their own excellent records, and finally come out champions. Then they themselves train others.

On the other hand, not all winners in international sports are ace athletes. They train hard for the present, even under masters, but lack foresight to live the philosophy of ace sportsmanship.

A mindset that carries the ace sportsman’s philosophy has the following foundational components:

A. You are not your own.

You are not in training, or competing, just to please your ego. It’s not just for some purpose; it’s for a corporate mission—others are in it with you. The “others” besides you are your master-father-trainer, his “sons” in training, the trainer who “fathered” your “father,” and your future “sons” who will be training under you. All of you are keeping up to maintain excellence and a reputation.

It’s actually a lineage. A founder up the line mastered the sport in a peculiar way. He became champion using a style of his own, and he had a secret formula for coming up with such a winning style. He had trained other selected few in this style, who also trained others. These others did likewise, and so on. You may find yourself somewhere down the line, and soon your turn to add to this lineage would come. Now, all of you in this lineage all fight for a common cause: To keep this peculiar style the champion of all styles.

It’s really a battle of styles. Filipinos have a different style of playing a game compared to how the Chinese, Japanese, or Thais do.

However, the style develops and evolves, takes new forms, and comes out better than before. Due to the philosophy of aiming to be better, the style becomes updated due to the changing needs of the real arena, the real sports field “out there.”

Hence, you will see that being an ace sportsman is really a corporate or joint task done individually by members of a particular lineage style. You can just watch the difference of how basketball was played by a team ten years ago, and then by new members of the same team ten years hence. You will also hear or read from sports commentators how boxers of a particular country take on a peculiar style and seem undefeated for a number of seasons, until another group of Read more