Amar’e Stoudemire : Tyler Relph NBA Training – “Training an ALL TIME Great”
Posted by Angie Diamond at 7:55 am
What a GREAT 3 weeks!!! 5 cities in 3 weeks, from the East Coast to Mid West to the West Coast and back to the East Coast. Dallas to Miami to San Antonio to Los Angeles to Atlanta and now back home to Dallas, TX.
Amar’e Stoudemire is an NBA All Star, Top 5 NBA player, Best Pure Power Forward in the NBA, a Future Hall of Famer, and a guy that has the same passion for basketball as I do!!! With all the things Amar’e has accomplished and is going to accomplish in his young career you would think he has an ego and deservedly so!! Not Amar’e!!!
Kids, if you want to be great it takes preparation, commitment, passion, persistence and a willingness to listen and learn. STAT (Standing Tall and Talented) has all these, not only did he LISTEN with his EARS, he listened with his EYES! He was ALL ABOUT getting better, he said he wanted to be better and he backed it up!! Do you back it up as a player or are you just talking about it because its what you should say? Amar’e backs it up with his passion “What move should I make here?”, “How’s my handle look?” , “ What can I do to perfect this move?”. Then came the answers from me and he listened intently!!! This is why he is GREAT!!
GIFTED – Amar’e is a gifted athlete and a great basketball player (who despite his accomplishments isn’t afraid to admit there is always more to work on) he was willing to get out of his comfort zone, he knew he to in order to get better!! Are you willing to get out of your comfort zone to get better? He was willing to look dumb in order to get better? ARE YOU?
RELENTLESS – A Turnover meant 10 more dribbles of that same move he turned the ball over doing and he had to start the drill over. He has to get a footwork move, dribble move, or drill until it was perfect, there was no “I CAN’T” with Amar’e. He had to make over 92% of his free throws before we left the gym! PERFECTION
EXCELLENCE – Whatever Amar’e does he wants to be great at it, acting, filming, basketball, commercials, he wants to be the greatest!! Knowledge is Power!! Be Different!!
ATTITUDE - Amar’e and I played in over 40 Games of reaction 1 on 1 and sometimes it became so competitive we just played 1 on 1 from whatever spot, sometimes it was full court!! He has an attitude that makes him better!! Two Guys who were born in New York, there was a lot of chatter going on in that GYM and we fed off it!!! It was FUN while being extremely competitive!!
TEAM – He wants to win! A championship is the only thing on his mind! He surrounds himself with a TEAM of GREAT people, I spent as much time with his friend Ben as I did with Amare and the conversations were nothing short of incredible!! People who genuinely care about each other can get a lot done!!
Amare Stoudemire is a BETTER PERSON then a basketball player, he gives everyone respect and he has sure gained mine. He has fun on the court and off the court. A trip to MILLIONS OF MILKSHAKES where he was noticed as an actor not an NBA player had me and him dying going to back to his place in LA, he enjoys life, and makes other people around him better.
Amar’e and I grew up in same Era of Basketball, two kids born in NY with dreams of making a difference in the basketball world. Coming from two different spectrums of the basketball world to spend 3 weeks to learn and get better!! Whether it was 11am or Midnight we both came into the gym with a smile because THE COURT, it’s where we grew up, it shaped us both into who we are today.
Leaving the last day Amare said to me ” T your the hardest worker I’ve ever seen” DIDO Amare!!
***You have to have goals in your workout. You can’t stop until that goal is reached, when it is reached you have gotten better!! Then you make another goal, and keep increasing the intensity and the difficulty of the drills! That’s what WE did and it made us both better.
“Persistence leads to perfection, satisfaction leads to failure” Are you persistent or are you satisfied?
WE are not Satisfied, WE want to be Better, WE can get Better, and WE will get Better!!
WE are GBB!!!
Tyler Relph
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