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Lee Taft (@leetaft) talks AAU basketball, building speed, training power vs elastic athletes and more!

December 21, 2022 Tyler Clark Season 5 Episode 5
Lee Taft (@leetaft) talks AAU basketball, building speed, training power vs elastic athletes and more!
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Lee Taft (@leetaft) talks AAU basketball, building speed, training power vs elastic athletes and more!
Dec 21, 2022 Season 5 Episode 5
Tyler Clark

Lee Taft is renowned as "The Speed Guy", he's one of the most influential figures in the industry when it comes to speed work, change of direction and specifically basketball change of direction. He could easily be considered one of the GOATS in the industry. 

He and I talk about the state of youth basketball right now and how some AAU programs and the system as a whole are failing some of these athletes, Lee also adds some of the things he's actively doing within his community to combat the AAU system and it's great stuff.

We talk about building speed, change of direction as well as how to training power athlete to be more elastic and the opposite. 

Lastly, we talk about some myths about defensive stances and what a "good" stance should actually look like

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Lee Taft is renowned as "The Speed Guy", he's one of the most influential figures in the industry when it comes to speed work, change of direction and specifically basketball change of direction. He could easily be considered one of the GOATS in the industry. 

He and I talk about the state of youth basketball right now and how some AAU programs and the system as a whole are failing some of these athletes, Lee also adds some of the things he's actively doing within his community to combat the AAU system and it's great stuff.

We talk about building speed, change of direction as well as how to training power athlete to be more elastic and the opposite. 

Lastly, we talk about some myths about defensive stances and what a "good" stance should actually look like