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ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION When a family member is ill how do we decide which “physician” to visit? Is it based solely on slick websites replete with video chats and glowing testimonials or are critical questions asked to ensure that the “physician’s” expertise extends beyond the digestion and regurgitation of a few health magazines? WHAT I KNOW You are looking for QB treatment and have been attracted to slick web pages swollen with zealous video-chats, and testimonials by “successful QBs” to justify a “reputation” intended to “sell” a questionable claim that their “program” will ensure your success. A questionable claim because any effective and efficient QB armed with humility and truth will be the first to admit that “QB success” is determined by his teammates and offensive system. Before you entrust your hard-earned family money to the purveyor of a slick web page investigate whether the study of Biomechanics; Motor Behavior-Control-Learning; Cognitive Psychology, and Exercise Physiology provide the foundation for any and all QB skill recommendations. Your ability to learn the requisite QB skills is dependent on their ability to diagnose, medicate, train, polish, and rehearse the requisite quarterback skills in the four domains of learning that is dependent upon their mastery of these disciplines. Your simple investigation will typically generate pseudo-scientific phrases such as “muscle memory”, “immediate feedback” as a means to impress. Evidence that a “few magazines” were digested and regurgitated but in no way indicative of a QB curricula commensurate with an “Academy-Institute-University”. Your attention and money should be invested in a coach’s knowledge and ability to provide and teach the principles, skills, and tools required for effective and efficient performance in the 4 domains of QB learning that determines immediate and long term team-leadership. WHAT YOU WANT You want to learn, further develop, or detail the requisite skills in an individualized environment. You want your family’s valuable hard earned money to be spent on instruction generated by a QB curriculum based on objective scientific principles complimented by art and not subjective hearsay and tradition validated by reputation. You want at least a chance to be an effective and efficient QB in order to provide your team with at least a chance to win!!! WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT “CAMPS” *You’ll be coached by a current or former NFL or college celebrity coach or player; or a “certified” coach. Regardless of the reputation, testimonials, or certification his “coaching tools” must be founded on the subjects listed above otherwise the claim that he can teach you the requisite skills is unreliable. You may rotate from drill to drill each with a different “certified” coach and thus “opinions” about mechanics. They will not detail the intricate biomechanics for passing the ball while on the move direct, inside right, and inside left. *You’ll be videoed with the latest technology. Video is useless unless you are videoed before AND after instruction. The pre-instruction video must be analyzed with the QB to accurately diagnose problems and prescribe solutions. The recommendations must be based on science rather than reputation to justify any remarks; the post-instruction video is critical to determine improvement. *You’ll perform agility tests…take a “camp” photo…listen to celebrity guest speakers…Yippee!!! These time fillers will not improve your skills and are advertised and deployed due to a lack of a sound science-based QB curriculum. *You’ll learn the “newest or latest” system of QB development. For goodness sake, there is no easy fix just as there is no “latest or newest” cookie cutter “system”. Individual differences between QBs require general and specific individual solutions to alleviate general and specific individual problems. This is the art. *You’ll learn “leadership”. Really? NO QB in the history of the game led his team simply by his “quiet demeanor” or his “fiery” personality. The “fiery” QB who can’t perform is a windbag and the quiet “lead by example” QB who can’t perform is an impossible empty example. Leaders in analogous positions of QBs lead by what they do and NOT by what they say or don’t say. No impassioned motivational speech by the “president and founder or whoever” will ever change this fact!!! Any QB must be able to perform the requisite skills in order to lead; the skills must be trained, medicated, polished, and rehearsed with science complimented by art…performance is leadership and leadership is performance in each of the four domains of QB learning!!! You may have attended a “camp” as a mere number on a shirt…a recruiting meat-market bystander amongst a “bazillion” other QBs…celebrity coaches with Elite QBs…certified coaches with you and the rest. You may have paid a celebrity “QB guru” only to learn that you spent “extra” money to hear a one on one version of subjective tradition and hearsay. If you want glitz and glamour then “The Seminar” is not for you. On the other hand, if you want to learn and work in a way that you will never need a “guru” then read on… "THE SEMINAR” The Seminar mission is simple: to provide and teach the principles, skills, and tools required for effective and efficient performance in the 4 domains of QB learning that determines immediate and long term team-leadership. Work ethic is emphasized and coupled with a QB curriculum based on science designed to optimize performance within each of the 4 domains of QB learning complimented by art. The art of coaching QBs must acknowledge and respect specific individual QB differences in order to correct and solve specific individual problems an approach simply not available in other settings. The curriculum is designed to teach each QB via unique drills created to train, medicate, polish, and rehearse the requisite skills with an emphasis on footwork and the 5 phases of the stroke mechanics. QBs are videoed and evaluated pre and post instruction and are provided with a skills evaluation sent also to the HS coach. To supplement instruction we provide a 4 Domains of Learning Skills Manual, Drills Manual, Evaluation and Recruiting guide, and an off-season throwing workout schedule and yet we stress that they return home and adhere to the prescriptions generated by their high school coach. As a memento each QB receives a QBOM long sleeve shirt. The unique “Freshman Seminar” is tailored for QBs who will enter grade 9 fall 2012. The “Upperclassman Seminar” is designed specifically for QBs who will enter grades 10, 11, or 12 fall 2012. All activities are conducted in the safe environment of the University of Northern Iowa. QBs are required to room and board on campus and must be able to attend ALL seminar activities – no exceptions…if you can’t do so due to other summer commitments then DO NOT REGISTER. The One Day “Tune UP” Sessions are for QB who attended the Seminar in 2011. Each seminar is LIMITED to 8 QBs admitted on a first to call-register-pay basis. The exclusivity of the Seminar requires what I realize to be an expensive remittance set aside for a specific purpose…to learn the QB position. Consequently, we will not waste time and as a result, your “valuable, hard-earned family money”. Therefore, there will be NO campfire to roast marshmallows or hot-dogs and sing kumbaya; NO picture taken or audiences with an NFL or college celebrity to justify the fee; NO swim time, ping-pong, or video games; NO methodology but QBOM will be employed to coach the QBs. I personally coach each quarterback…you pay for Coach Verdu – you get Coach Verdu…I am with them 24-2. Day 1 Check-in begins at 7:00am, the first activity begins at 7:30am; we work through the day and night - lights out at 11:30pm. Day 2 begins with a wake-up call at 5:30am, first activity begins at 6:00am; we work ‘till 6:00pm with Check-out approx. 6:30pm. We’ll work, learn, and enjoy the process together.
SKILLS AND TOPICS – A GLIMPSE Leadership as Performance in the 4 Domains of Learning
Passing Mechanics
Dropback Mechanics (3, 5, 7 step)
Pass Offense Categorization – Introduction
Quarterback Specific Field Workout (Drills)Biomechanics / Motor Learning / Cognitive PsychologyMedia RelationsNavigating the NCAA Evaluation and Recruiting Wars
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