By all means, lets “Get past Bompa” and listen to Gambetta and his Sports Specific rehash.
Let’s think for a minute. If we do everything to duplicate what’s in a game, how do we improve?
It’s like running nothing but 100s to improve the 100. Good luck with that.
A few years back, I was asked to review the program he provided to a major professional team by management after they suffered a rash of serious injuries (I think I still have it somewhere).
There were hundreds of pages, filled with an assemblage of every ludicrous drill he had ever seen or heard of. What could all these have been specific to?
Gambetta has had it in for Tudor ever since he gave a presentation in Indianapolis, telling the truth and denouncing all this trendy bullshit.
In fact, Gambetta and his like-minded pals ganged up and said they wouldn’t present wherever Tudor was invited, and, as they are the flavor of the month, basically got Tudor pushed out.
Let’s go point by point through what Gambetta has to say above:
1: He’s never heard of speed reserve.
2: See my earlier comments about segmental improvement.
3: He can’t figure out that you must touch the ground to skip.
BTW, there was a TON of skipping with legs tied together with Therabands etc in his program.
4: Too fast for their game? By that logic, Tiger Woods is now too strong for Golf and won’t be any good anymore.
What’s frightening is not that Gambetta is clueless, it is that whatever befalls the last crop of adherents, there is always a fresh audience.