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I think the most fun texts we’ve had
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is when Gronkowski Tom texted me,
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he said, football’s fun again.
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The cool thing about dealing with these guys,
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they are just like you and me.
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They’re big kids.
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They might be,
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you know, superstar G.O.A.Ts.
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It’s the best ever.
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It’s a big 12 year olds.
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I’m Tom House.
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I’m a performance analyst
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that works with 3DQB
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and national fishing association.
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And last year I deal with rotational athletes.
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The athletes we work with
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will be everything from the elite in
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majorly league pitchers, elite quarterbacks,
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all the way down to the everyday kid
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in literally and their families
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with the idea that we’re trying
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to get them to perform
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and be healthy
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or whatever their sport is
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as long as they play.
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In this current climate
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probably be only one on one instruction,
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that I’m conducting right now,
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is with Drew Brees
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and it’s because we’re neighbors
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out here in Del Mar,
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but I am still with someone like a Brady.
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We do talk.
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we do Skype.
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We do zoom.
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He sends me video.
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We’re doing exactly the same thing.
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It’s just with technology.
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At the end of a season,
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all these players go through what
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we call an active rest
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and recovery stage.
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When the season was over,
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all of them take a break.
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And just about the time
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they would normally be ready
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to start working again,
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is when the pandemic hit.
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The net result is what you
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and I are doing right now.
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The football
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and the baseball athletes doing exactly
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the same thing.
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They’re being homeschooled.
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There’s different types of training
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there’s block training,
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there’s random training
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and there’s deep training.
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And deep training
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is when you’re actually working by yourself.
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Those back to the good old days,
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when a little kid was Shown,
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a tennis ball against your garage door.
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We give these elite athletes things
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they can do by themselves.
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And they learn more doing that,
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because there’s no judgment on app.
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And if they have the rights that statistically,
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if they’re doing things that
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are unique to their particular interpretation
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of a movement,
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they will learn more in deep training
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than they will in a group setting
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or where someone’s actually evaluate.
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Moving to Florida has been an experience.
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I don’t think he’s got a gym that he goes to,
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but he’s got facilities
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in the house he’s living in.
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I think it’s common knowledge
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he’s living in Derek Jr’s house.
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My guess is that Derek Jeter had a gym,
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that’s probably better
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than anything I’ve ever gone to.
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We probably communicate at least once a week
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around what he’s doing.
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Tom has his guy, Alex Carrero.
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Everything physical is with Alex.
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Everything nutritional is with Alex.
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So Tom doesn’t need that for me,
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all he needs is an evaluation
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of his throwing motion.
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When he sends a video,
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I pretend like I’ve never seen him before.
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They’ll either text me
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or leave me a voicemail
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look, I just filmed about 20 throws.
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Hey, have a look
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give me a shout.
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If you see anything
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or let’s talk this afternoon or tomorrow.
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And we’ll do it.
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We look at initially his timing
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and his kinematic sequencing,
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and then the throwing variables
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that most coaches would teach balance
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and posture ,drive momentum, opposite and equal.
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And then the throwing variables
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that are quantified
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and specific to him.
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You don’t have this capture in front of him.
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I say, okay,
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on your third throw to the left,
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have a look at that.
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Your front side flew up a little bit.
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That’ll just be my eyes talking
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and I’ll give him some of the cues
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that we use in our vocabulary for his teach.
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So it’s just like being there except,
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for when people are both looking
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at video at the same time.
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Because of the longterm relationship,
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we have a vocabulary that works for him.
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It’s different than the vocabulary
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that I teach for the Drew Grey’s or whoever.
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But around that,
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there are things that he consistently
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has to pay attention to
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because when he originally wired his mechanics,
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way back when it wasn’t as efficient
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as what he’s got right now.
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There’s windows to trainability,
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the first one to know is your nervous system.
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It’s neurological.
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And the age that goes to that
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are eight to about 13 year old male or female.
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The second window,
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is a strength window where it’s muscle
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that you’re working on.
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And that’s 13 to about 18 or 19.
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Then a third window of trainability
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is skill acquisition.
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When nerves and muscles can talk to each other
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and that’s 18, 19 years old,
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till 32 or 33 years old.
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And then the fourth window is skill retention,
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but in their 40s skill retention
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is trying to hang on to everything
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that they’ve got to make them
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as good as they are.
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[upbeat music]
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Tom in his always happened Pattern
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and repattern with the aging process,
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he has to work on things neurologically
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just like a 10 or 11 year old
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might have to work on.
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So I never disclosed
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what an individual athlete is working on
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with us specifically,
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but in general terms,
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it’s what he needs to do
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to be the best Tom Brady you can be.
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I think the most fun texts we’ve had is
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when Gronkowski,
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he texted me and said,
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football’s fun again.
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The cool thing about dealing
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with these guys today
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are just like you and me.
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They’re big kids.
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Then they might be superstars G.O.A.Ts,
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the best ever
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to pick 12 year old.
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Grok is the ultimate 12 year old,
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32 year old superstar.
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Grok is one of those guys in the locker room
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or on the field,
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that just has a great time playing.
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And it’s what we call the power of play.
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It’s always more fun to work
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at something you’re having a good time at
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than it is to work at work.
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You don’t tell the kid to go out
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and work at baseball.
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Go tell him to play at basketball.
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So Grok is the ultimate play guy.
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With Tom and Drew and all these elite guys do,
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they bring their receivers
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with them because quarterback receiver
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it’s like pitcher and catcher
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have to be like one mind to make it work.
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He hasn’t started throwing two receivers yet.
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He’s just physically preparing with Alex
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for when he will be thrown into receiver.
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And then we’ll adjust.
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We’ll look at calendar
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and make do with video until such time
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as either I can get to him.
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He comes out to California on a regular basis.
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And a lot of times we’ll meet
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at a neutral field with his receivers
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and then it’ll be like business as usual.
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But I think everything’s supposed
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to start big time in September.
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So I’ll probably see him early August
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out here in California or back in town.
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Drew because I’m actually able
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to be with him where,
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you know,
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approaching things a little bit different.
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What is cross Pacific training?
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We’re going twice a week,
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Tuesdays and Thursday,
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and they’ll go anywhere from an hour
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and a half to three hours depending
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on how it feels.
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But that’s our usual off season work anyway,
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We’re just doing it at his house now,
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instead of out on a football field.
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What we’re doing is preparing him
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to throw a football farther
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at his current age than he’s ever done before.
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If Drew can continue
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to stretch feel as a 41, 42 year old,
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just like he did when he was 20 water,
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20 dude.
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And then you add in all the experience
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and all of the things that he already knows,
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it would be a 42 year old,
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22 year old.
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It’s really hard to defend.
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That’s what our goal is for the opposite.
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I don’t know if you’re aware,
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but Drew is a world-class tennis player
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in high school.
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And I think one of the reasons
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he’s such a good quarterback,
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is his footwork is just press pristine.
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So one of the things that he’s enjoying,
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we put a tennis racket in his hand,
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serving a tennis ball in person,
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same activities,
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throwing a football.
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So he’s getting work as a tennis player
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for his foot work
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and getting work with his shoulder,
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with a tennis racket in it.
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And it’s fun.
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Something different in because
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it is a rotational sport.
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It translates into throwing a football
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to 75 miles an hour.
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But I’m really amazed
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is that a couple of his boys play lacrosse.
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So he took it up
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and he can actually do lacrosse right now.
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Like I’ve been playing in it so long.
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Drew’s a great,
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with all these guys are great athletes,
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but it’s a fun thing to do
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that is cross specific for throwing football.
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So a lot of our training,
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has not been about throwing the football.
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It’s got working with other implements
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from other sports that are specific
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to what you do when you throw football.
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We don’t think specialization,
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for a young athlete is good.
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We recommend play all sports
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as long as you possibly can.
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But what we’re doing with Drew,
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who’s in his fourth window of trainability,
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which is skill retention,
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or taking him back to his first one now,
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but we have a 12 year old playing
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as many sports as he possibly could.
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And what happens with the neuroplasticity?
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They pull stuff off the shelf and their brain,
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and we’ll repattern the nervous system
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to be 14, 15 years old.
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So we’re having fun learning about this stuff.
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And I think the athletes
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are having fun with the work they’re doing too.
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So we’ve been experimenting with tennis stuff
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and lacrosse.
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You know,
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he’s got a big pool
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and fouling around like a surfer in the pool
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and then training with weighted balls.
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He hasn’t touched a football yet.
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We learned that with Andrew Luck
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when we were bringing his shoulder back,
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that you don’t have to have a football
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to train to throw a football.
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Throwing a one pound ball
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it’s just like throwing a football.
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You use the weighted balls
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to build a functional strength
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and the accelerators, decelerators
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to handle throwing football 60 yards.
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Our testing has revealed
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that if you can throw a one pound ball
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X miles an hour,
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’cause one mile an hour
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is one yard with a football.
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And Drew has been throwing
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a one pound ball 61 miles an hour,
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which means going to put a football in his hand,
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he’ll be able to throw
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a football 55 to 61 yards.
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Can I stand up and get something real quick?
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Okay,
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I’m back.
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So this is how
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we’re gonna start actually throwing.
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‘Cause he doesn’t have a receiver
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and see it’s a football with a blunt nose.
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So he’ll be throwing blunt nose football
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into the balance back.
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And that’s how he’s gonna
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start his throwing process.
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You throw into it,
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it bounces back to me.
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It’s probably 10 yards to 20 yards
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to start with volume
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equals load frequency intensity and duration.
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We might start off
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with 30 to 45 throws 30 feet on the first day.
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Besides all the other throwing activities
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that we were doing with training.
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And that would be the beginning
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of his skill work.
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This time of the year,
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is ratcheting up his volume of work.
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He wants to prepare his total body
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for more than the season will
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ever take out of it.
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What we figured out with Drew,
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is he will work really,
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really hard except on Wednesday.
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Wednesday is his active rest day.
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The hardest thing that Drew
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is convincing him that sometimes
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the less can be more.
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Obviously guys are insanely committed
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to getting better every day.
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And a lot of them at times will overwork recovery
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just as important as preparation and competition.
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So it goes,
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prepare,
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compete,
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recover,
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repeat.
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There is your cycle.
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And this goes with day to day preparation
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in the off season
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and day to day preparation in season.
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In the process of retiring at age 73,
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as much as I enjoy being out there
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on the road or whatever,
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it’s kind of tough for me to slow down
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a little bit and you know,
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the pandemic thing we’re going through.
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What it’s done is it’s sped up everything
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that I had growing in motion.
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The new app that we’ve put together,
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it’s called the mustard.
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All our engineers,
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have taken all the capture
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that was done over 30 years.
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Nolan Ryan’s in it,
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Randy Johnson,
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all these elite athletes.
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I think we have almost 900 major league pitchers,
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about 110 NFL quarterbacks
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got a thousand big league hitters.
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All of this stuff is in the database
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and literally using that data,
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we’re coming up with models
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that can be delivered
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and captured on a cell phone.
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Everything that I’m doing with Bray, Brees
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or whoever it might be,
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the everyday parent
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and the everyday athlete can access
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the same thing.
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So we’re humanizing artificial intelligence.
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We’re reinforcing the power of play
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or making sure that if an athlete,
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bottles protocols that he can perform with elf
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and get better at what he or she is doing.
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I’ve actually gone through this in my mind.
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I think we’ve learned how to deliver
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if there’s 120 million families out there
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that have athletes youth people
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in their homes,
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I think we figured out a way
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to access that 120 million families,
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but we might lack an interpersonal connection.
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We’re making up for it
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with the expediency of the internet.
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So overall,
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we’re doing the same thing.
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We’re just doing it using technology now
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instead of face to face.