5-Boomer Friday: Conflict Corner, Olympic Rowing, and Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Greetings PE Nation,
Have you ever wanted your students to resolve their conflicts independently? Today, I give a special shoutout to Ben Landers and his brilliant Conflict Corner poster, a tool that's revolutionizing the way students handle their issues. Plus, I dive into the dense but rewarding world of "Boys in the Boat," a compelling historical account of the 1936 Olympic rowing team that you won't want to miss. And for a touch of culinary inspiration, I highly recommend the documentary "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," which offers an intimate look into the life of Jiro, an 85-year-old sushi master running a prestigious three-star Michelin restaurant in Tokyo.

 On Five Boomer Friday, the mission is clear: to bring you exciting and useful content that can elevate your professional and personal life. Thank you for being an integral part of this vibrant community. Let's continue to support and elevate the field of physical education!

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Dave

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• 0:11 Five Boomer Friday Podcast Episode
• 11:47 Building Community Through Physical Education

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:11

Hello and welcome to the Supersize Phys Ed podcast. My name is Dave and today I want to do another installment of Five Boomer Friday. Yes, five Boomer Friday. I'm so glad it's back and I just want to get going. So, without further ado, here we go. Welcome, welcome, welcome back in PE Nation. I'm so glad you're here and I can't guarantee I'm going to do this all the time these podcasts of Five Boomer Friday but I'm enjoying them and I'm definitely enjoying writing them. So I'm going to keep that going every other Friday.

Speaker 1: 1:01

So if you've not joined the mailing list, please do so. I think you'll enjoy it. It's five things that I just think are cool. Let's just go with that I just think are cool and that can help you potentially in your PE profession or any profession really. So, yeah, let's get started. So let's go with number one. Here we go, here we go. So number one if you have not heard this before or have not been on the mailing list is going to be a PE tip or strategy or some kind of resource for PE.

Speaker 1: 1:36

Well, today I chose my friend Ben Landers. He is awesome. He is amazing. He is the PE specialist and I'll put his links and things in the show notes. He saved me and many others by creating the conflict corner poster, and I know other people have done it or done spinoffs of it. I love his well, first of all, his video that goes with it. He has a great video with him and his assistant coach or other PE teacher in the building and they do a great job of explaining it. I have shown the video to my students before, and the Conflict Corner I think most people have heard of it by now, but if not, it's okay. It is simply a place for the students to go to help hopefully solve their own problems without tattling or without having to get you involved, unless it's something just major. So it's just really cool. It's a good poster, it's a great video, it's a kid friendly and it's something. If you model it enough, they will use it, and I've been guilty in the past, especially in the beginning, of just modeling at one time. Then the kids never used it. You have to model, model, model and get them to understand that the first thing they should do is try to talk it out themselves. And there's times when the kids are like well, the conflict corner is way over there and we're in the field right now and I try to tell them well, any place can be the conflict corner. You know, you go to the bench over here and just talk it out, but that's just. It's a great resource. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on each of these, but definitely check it out if you haven't already, or print it out for your school year. That just beginning I think most people are just beginning or about to begin it's a great resource and it is from Ben Landers, the PE.

Speaker 1: 3:17

Conflict Corner Number two is going to be a book that I'm reading or have read. I don't like speed read, so a lot of times it's going to be books I've already read. So, before the movie ever came out, I read the book the Boys in the Boat and I'll confess to you that I read about maybe a third of it, and then it got really dense and I decided to buy the audio book, so I finished it. That way there is a more of a young adult. Then it got really dense and I decided to buy the audio book, so I finished it. That way there is a more of a young adult one that I got for my son after we saw the movie, so I might actually read that next.

Speaker 1: 3:54

But Boys in the Boat is I don't want to give away any spoilers now, but it's, it's history. It's like saying you know the Titanic, like oh boy. I don't give any spoilers away but although this is not quite as known as that, basically my favorite movie of all time is Miracle. It's about the miracle on ice victory of the United States over the Soviets in 1980 in the Olympics. And if you like that movie or you love that movie, you will love Boys in the Boat. The book is, as most books are, way better than the movie. There's been very few times, but there have been a few, where the movie is better than the book, but the book is way more well. It's dense, but it's more. There's way more details. Obviously they couldn't cover everything in a two-hour movie, but it gets way more into the characters which were real-life people. But it gets way more into the characters which were real life people and just went on with the main characters, family and things like that that you didn't see that as much in the movie. So it's just a very uplifting book and movie. So I'm going to go with that Boys in the Boat. You got to check it out.

Speaker 1: 5:10

Number three will be a documentary that I love or a movie or something like that. So in this case I picked a movie I hadn't seen in a while. It is called I hope I pronounced this right jiro, or dreams of sushi. So it's j-i-r-o and Dreams of Sushi, jiro, or yeah, I think I'm saying that right. Sorry if I'm pronouncing that wrong, but that is a documentary. It's actually on Hulu right now. Hulu or Disney Plus. It's one of it's. It's on there right now. It's it moves around a little bit and it is about Jiro. I hope I'm saying that right again. I'm just going to go with that.

Speaker 1: 5:45

And he at the time was 85. And right now he is still alive. I looked it up, he's like 98 years old. He lives in Tokyo. Let me just talk about what this is Right. Back then it took place in Tokyo and he owned this three-star Michelin restaurant where they only served sushi and they only served like 20 people a night. They had 20 seats and that's. It was a three-star Michelin, which is like I don't want to say impossible, but it's. It's very, very difficult to get to be recognized that highly of a restaurant. But it's all about his passion and all about. It's also about his sacrifices, about being great, sometimes being great and I'm not advocating for this because I love my kids and my wife and I would never sacrifice my career for them, but it's, you know, it's he sacrificed a lot to become the greatest sushi chef in the world or one of them. I mean it's just amazing, but and it is uplifting as well, I mean it's, it's not a bad thing. I'm just saying you know, it shows what he did, day after day, year after year, to become the greatest.

Speaker 1: 6:58

And you know I love things to like documentaries about, like restaurants, and that's why I originally named my book the teacher, the chef and the hockey player Hockey Player. I love those kind of documentaries and it's just, it's really cool to watch just the simplicity of certain things, like sushi and how he made them, just made his restaurant the best. It's crazy, but it's true and it's awesome. So that is number three. All right. Number four is something I think is just cool that I've seen recently and a lot of times I'll get these I've noticed from Instagram or, you know, twitter, just some kind of clip of something I didn't know about and something I was like, oh man, that's cool. That's, I'm just something I'm fascinated by. So in this case it is about Walter Payton and there is a link. Again, all these things are linked and they're also in the email, the mail newsletter, everything's in there.

Speaker 1: 7:54

So this is about Walter Payton, like I said, and he, if you don't know who he was, he was a running back, one of the greatest ever for the Chicago Bears. And I am not a Chicago Bears fan, if most of you know me, you know I'm a Bills fan and I've always been a Bills fan. But he, you know I love watching people that are great, do their job or do their whatever they're doing their craft. He was no exception. I loved watching him. He just they call him sweetness for a reason. He just ran with such grace, but he also had a lot of power to him and you know he'd be one of those guys that he wouldn't just go out of bounds. You know he'd fight for that extra half yard and he was just amazing to watch.

Speaker 1: 8:36

So the video I don't want to spoil it too much, I guess, but it's not a big deal. I guess it is Merrill Hodge. He was a former running back in the NFL he's talking about, I guess, when he. It's a short clip, so I'm not positive the origin of it, but I believe it was when he again Walter, I keep saying Peyton Manning, walter Peyton died. I mean it was a while ago, so when Merrill Hodge must have got this from him.

Speaker 1: 9:01

You know, before he passed away, he, it was all about his work ethic and how he just Said that you know, I just want it more than them. You know, I just want To be the best more than they do. And you know it goes back to when I shared wayne gretzky. He was wayne gretzky and walter payton. They were not the biggest, they were not the fastest, they just had the heart of a champion. I have the tiger baby, I have the tiger right. So that was him and it's a cool clip to watch. So it's not a long clip, I'm talking like a minute at the most but it was really cool and inspiring and it goes to anything we want to do in our lives.

Speaker 1: 9:38

And I tell it, I just told it to my son, like recently I'm talking about, like yesterday, or something where I just wish I knew now what I, you know. I wish I knew then what I know now as far as you know I wish I could be his age again. I mean not really, but if I could just infuse that work ethic in him, like just to be great at something. And you know, I feel like I found my calling in PE at the age of like 38. You know, I didn't. I didn't know what I was doing back then, and you know.

Speaker 1: 10:08

So that's just a sidebar, but that's about Walter Payton and you got to check it out. Just check it out. That's Walter Payton is number four. All right, number five is just a question. That's what it's usually going to be. It might not be a digital type question. It might just be a thought provoking question.

Speaker 1: 10:28

In this case it is what is your focus for this year? So it could be. You want to get more professional development. You might want to work on rules and procedures or signals like how you get the kids to focus or how you deal with behavior in a different way Anything. I actually sent out a link to a quick poll and I want to go over that at some point as soon as it's done. I already sent it out, so I sent out early and I want to see what kind of results we get back and talk about them. So that is a question to ponder what are you focusing on this school year? I will say for myself I am focusing on and it kind of goes along with a podcast.

Speaker 1: 11:07

I did, I don't know, about a month ago it was during summer where I just it was my tear it down, one where I just want to start over with a lot of things. I want to go back to being a white belt again, if you will, and getting giving the kids new experiences and different experiences and not just running through the same things over and over again. The past, you know, 10 years, the greatest hits, menu of games and things I want to branch out. I want to get better for my students and I want them to have more experiences. So that's my answer to it and I hope you have a great answer to. I hope you at least think about it and ponder it and even fill out the form. So that is number five.

Speaker 1: 11:47

Thank you everybody for tuning in. I really do appreciate it, as always. Go to supersize phys edcom for more information or, if you have not already signed up for the mailing list, please do so, because I'd love to connect with you and I'd love for you to be a part of the five boomer Friday mission of just getting some cool stuff out there into the world, things I enjoy, but I also appreciate if people give me ideas so I can put them out there as well. So please do so and join. Join us, it'd be awesome. So, with that being said, have a great day, week, weekend, whenever you listen to this PE Nation. You guys and girls are awesome. Let's keep pushing our profession forward. Thank you you.