Hyperion Sports

The family at Hyperion Sports would like to thank you for the opportunity to tell you a little about our vision and passion to help people reach and exceed their personal fitness, athletic, and life achievement goals.

Each athlete that trains at Hyperion Sports becomes part of our family and we want our family members to become the best prepared people in all aspects of life. We believe in providing the highest level of training to every individual we come in contact with regardless of social status, financial status, gender, age, or level of athletic ability. We want to help build better people.

The physical body is only one aspect of training. To best produce the results that people desire, we must also help kids and adults learn or re-learn new attitudes and perceptions about themselves, focusing on strengthening each persons weaknesses and building upon each of their strengths. With new attitudes, new perceptions and a stronger, faster, more agile body comes a new outlook on athletics, competition, self esteem, and life in general. Please come be a part of our family at Hyperion Sports.

Hyperion Sports Goals

Hyperion Sports was founded to help athletes of all ages to strive to be their best, not only in sports but in life. Our teaching methodology is designed to achieve three goals:

• Improve speed, power, agility, coordination, quickness, balance and explosiveness

• Injury prevention through advanced single leg stabilization techniques

• Improve self-esteem by reaching and surpassing an athlete's individual goals

The Role of our Hyperion Sports Staff

Our Hyperion Sports Staff is responsible for improving an athlete's performance and preventing common sports related injuries. By determining the strengths and weaknesses of an athlete, a training program is devised to enhance performance and correct imbalances and deficiencies which may lead to injury.

Technical Skill vs. Athletic Skill

Participation in sports requires a blend of technical skills and athletic skills. The exact amount of each is dependent on the sport and level of competition. Technical skills, such as throwing for the baseball player or shooting for the lacrosse player, are required explicitly by each sport. Between tournaments, leagues, games and practices, technical skills are, at times, practiced 5-6 days per week for the greater part of the calendar year. Athletic skills such as strength, flexibility, balance, speed and agility are required by all sports but their role and level of importance in each sport will vary. Athletic skills training will enhance the execution of technical skills, increase performance and prevent injury.

Athletic Skills Development

Hyperion Sports training programs focus on the long-term development of each athlete through an emphasis on stability training before strength and power training. Athletes must demonstrate the ability to execute movements that require body weight control, balance and core stability before strength and power training exercises are progressed. Traditional training models used for high school athletes require maximum or near maximum strength and power movements in the early stages of training putting athletes at risk for the development of permanent muscular imbalances, decrease sport performance and potential injury.

Performance Enhancement Programs

Hyperion Sports provides performance enhancement programs to athletes of all sports, skill levels and age groups. Hyperion Sports' integrated training model focuses on the long term development of each athlete emphasizing:

America needs more 'Teaching' from its Coaches
By:  Jay Bilas (Excerpt from ESPN.com)

I have been watching more high school and junior basketball than ever, and I am worried about what I see.  The canary in the United States' basketball coal mine has not yet died, but it is starting to teeter on its perch.

No reasonable basketball person can refute the fact that the fundamental skills of American players are slipping, and so is the American game.  I believe a primary reason is an increased emphasis on coaching the game, and a decreased emphasis on teaching our kids how to play the game.

Pete Newell, the legendary coach and teacher, has often said that basketball is "over-coached and under-taught".  He is absolutely right, and that is finally catching up with us, as is the rest of the basketball world.

Generally, "coaching" consists of team preparation, the devising of game plans and schemes to defeat opponents.  When you are coaching, you are dealing with strategies, different offenses and defenses, and putting in plays to take advantage of the skills, strengths and weaknesses of your players.  The measure of a coach is the quality of the development of his system, and has been distilled into winning.

"Teaching" consists of instruction and training of individuals in the fundamental skills of the game, and in teaching players how to play, instead of how to run plays.  The measure of a teacher is not in winning, but in the fundamental soundness and skill level of the players taught.  A player with excellent fundamentals and skills can play successfully in any system.

Generally, American players are less skilled than their European counterparts.  The United States produces the best "athletes" in the game, but not necessarily the best "basketball players".