Coaches Clinics and TEAM Building Sessions
“Smart-Speed” developed by Robert Forry for Bob Forry Sports Inc.© 2007

I have been doing strength, speed, agility and explosiveness drills with middle school, high school college and professional athletes since September 1991. So many things have changed in the past 16 years that the things I was doing then would be consider archaic by today’s standards. Keep in mind that I’ve always been “out there” so to speak when it came to the drills, exercises and situations I placed my athletes in. Using a ski-slope to do over speed drills, running in ankle deep sand wearing boots or creating situations that would never arise during a game situation = Specific Adaptation to Increased Demands. They found a name for it after I had done it years earlier in the United States Marine Corps, we just called it “gettin dogged”. I used these theories and ideas from boot camp and combined them with the training methods provided while I was at Dam Neck Virginia with the Navy Seals.

The coach doesn’t necessarily need the fastest or strongest, he need’s an athlete who can think on their feet, one who can still comprehend a simple or multiple command when 1. They are physically exhausted and 2. When the game is on the line. Do you really decide the outcome of any organized sporting event in the first few minutes of a game? The answer is no and it really does little good to work on game skills, form, agility and assisted agility drills for less than the game would take to play or without having the athletes be in the beginning phases of exhaustion.  That doesn’t mean that you abandon your form drills or anything else you do to prepare an athlete’s cardiovascular endurance or physical conditioning. It means that at least once a week, sometimes two during the off season you MUST incorporate “smart-speed” drills into your conditioning program.

It took years to develop and implement, using varying levels of athletes with varying degrees of fatigue but the SGT4E Smart-Speed system is the next generation of mental and physical athletic preparedness. Let the truth be known, athletes who have subjected themselves to this type of training were more efficient, more confident and reacted to multiple commands at an accelerated pace compared to athletes who were far superior in strength, linear speed and pre-determined agility drills. Pre-determined agility drills or as some coaches like to say, assisted agility drills are paramount in developing form and proper techniques. Once an athlete develops these skills they must be pressured into situations or conditions that would be consider in Sarge’s Marine Corps terms “Battle” mode.

First sound? , on 3?, watch the ball? Keep your eye on their hips? How about covering one eye  of a baseball player alternately and doing soft toss! What about a hurdler running through sand in boots and a flak jacket for 15 minutes before doing form drills! A basketball player holding 5 lb. Dumbbells out to his side as long as possible then doing 50 foul shots. Moving groups through an obstacle course of ballistic drills then requiring them to”do 5 more tucks” “5 less lunges” “in reverse order” “first group goes on the whistle, second group goes on my voice” NOW MOVE!  I have formulated a series of drills for athletes ranging in age from 11 to professional level.

I have rates affordable to every team, regardless of the booster clubs support. Terms can be by calculated by session, by month or by student. Easy to follow, easy to understand, easy to set up and implement into your system. We have limited openings so please call today to set up a Team session, your coaches clinic, or to order your coaches handbook of SGT4E Smart-Speed.