Welcome to the first step in the Mental Tuffness Training(R) Referee Camp.
The first step I ask of you is to fill out the form below to start receiving your curriculum:
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Welcome to the UO Mental Tuffness Training(R)
Welcome to Referee Camp! This camp has proven to be one of our most popular camps. Please see the following video message from J.B. Olson:
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Mental Tuffness Training (R) Curriculum Sing Up
Dear Hockey Referee,
Please sign up to automatically receive the Mental Tuffness Curriculum:
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Power Skating Video Series 1
The IT Department from UltimateOfficials.com just sent me over another video that highlights what to expect from the upcoming video series on power skating. Enjoy!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Zebra Open -- Coming August 22, 2008
5th Annual Zebra Open –
Referee’s Take a Swing at Cancer
Benefit for the “Zebra Foundation”
Referee’s Take a Swing at Cancer
Benefit for the “Zebra Foundation”
Friday August 22nd , 2008
9:00 am (registration begins at 8:00 am)
Stonebrooke Golf Club
2693 County Road 79
Shakopee, MN 55379
(www.stonebrooke.com)
9:00 am (registration begins at 8:00 am)
Stonebrooke Golf Club
2693 County Road 79
Shakopee, MN 55379
(www.stonebrooke.com)
Who: Hockey referee’s and officials who are interested in having fun and donating money to fight cancer.
What: 4 man scramble – Teams of four will compete for prizes and awards.May choose a
partner/group to register with, or may be assigned to a group.
When: Friday August 22nd , 2008
Tournament begins at 9:00 am
$65.00 Special Registration Fee, includes 18 holes golf, range balls, motorized cart, plus a barbecue picnic afterwards
Where: Stonebrooke Golf Club, Shakopee, MN
Why: Because we all know someone who has been affected by cancer. This tournament started four years ago, with 8 people who played 18 holes of golf, took all of their betting money from the game, and donated a total of $350 to the American Cancer Society. In 2005, there were two Zebra Open events: (1)Northern Tournament: 4 participants, who donated a total of $240 to American Cancer Society, and (2) Twin Cities Event: 12 participants, who donated a total of $650 to Jon and Kelley Campion. In 2006, we held the event for the first time at Little Falls CC, and we had 27 participants, who raised $3100 for Jon and Kelley Campion again. Last year we had the tournament in Little Falls again, drawing 31 people who raised $3000 for the Zebra Foundation.
**ZEBRA FOUNDATION: We have now established a foundation for the hockey officials in Minnesota, called the Zebra Foundation. The mission of the Zebra Foundation is “to support cancer patients and their families through donations.” Helping our fellow brothers and sisters in the referee world is what this cause is all about. Cancer can strike any of us or our families at any time, and the Zebra Foundation is here to help. Your participation ensures help for those in the future.
This year we are going BIGGER and BETTER!! Our goal is to have 100 participants, from all around the state who love to golf, talk trash, and enjoy the feeling of giving to a worthy cause.
JOIN IN THE FUN
Call J.B. Olson – 612-207-6482
Email: ejmo02@msn.com
Make checks payable to: MHOA ($65.00 = Special Fee!!)
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Here Comes the BOOM!
I was just handed this item from our IT department. Please enjoy the music video:
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Linkorama: Are You All About "MORE"?
I just got my July newsletter from Dan Kennedy (go see this stud at www.dankennedy.com ) and he had some great insights into wanting "MORE". I am telling you...it doesn't matter what type of business you are in, whether you are an employee, business owner, bus boy, or bottle washer, you can apply the concepts from his opening excerpt.
[[ Note: If you are an athlete and consider yourself to be a SERIOUS athlete, then the concepts definitely apply to you and yours.]]
[[[Special Note: If you are a hockey official and you want MORE...more big games, more playoff runs, more championships to work, more t.v. games...this is DEFINITELY for you and yours]]]
From Dan Kennedy:
"At the SuperConference, Gene Simmons made the observation that he and pretty much all successful people are obsessed with the relentless pursuit of "More". This is why so much more invention, innovation, progress and wealth has been birthed here in the U.S. than anywhere else (up until lately) -- because, more than any other nation on earth, we have been all about the belief in the philosophy of 'more.' These days, there's a lot of foolish criticism of that, a lot of it from ridiculous hypocrites -- people who own five 15,000 square foot homes and commute between them by private jet telling you to shrink the size of your carbon footprint. Billionaires-turned-liberals late in life suggesting that your wealth is somehow at others' loss. There is also a rising chorus of voices selling us on a new mandate to accept 'less'. Obama has said we must give up the idea of keeping our homes at 72-degrees and live less comfortably, drive less, even eat less food...and, of course, keep less of the wealth we create. You want to ignore all of this b.s. and feel proud to be a pursuer of More.
The more 'More' you pursue and get, the more good you automatically do for others, and the more good you can deliberately do as well. So, to celebrate July, this Issue is about "GET MORE."
How to GET MORE of a lot of different things. I have written it immediately before jetting off to the U.K. for a week, to get more of the Brit's money and bring it back here. On that long flight, I'll be scheming about how to get more customers by more means with more speed when I get back. And it seems to me that the main reason more people don't get More is that they just aren't thinking about it, noodling it, being creative about it, working at it, and taking pride in it. Right now, a lot of people are actually voluntarily, shamefully shifting their thinking into reverse; instead of thinking about getting More, they've turned their thoughts to getting by with Less until "this recession blows over" -- as if it were a summer thunderstorm. It is not. It is a Transition to the New Economy, where there is more opportunity than ever. Different, but more."
Amen to the thought of GETTING MORE!
[[ Note: If you are an athlete and consider yourself to be a SERIOUS athlete, then the concepts definitely apply to you and yours.]]
[[[Special Note: If you are a hockey official and you want MORE...more big games, more playoff runs, more championships to work, more t.v. games...this is DEFINITELY for you and yours]]]
From Dan Kennedy:
"At the SuperConference, Gene Simmons made the observation that he and pretty much all successful people are obsessed with the relentless pursuit of "More". This is why so much more invention, innovation, progress and wealth has been birthed here in the U.S. than anywhere else (up until lately) -- because, more than any other nation on earth, we have been all about the belief in the philosophy of 'more.' These days, there's a lot of foolish criticism of that, a lot of it from ridiculous hypocrites -- people who own five 15,000 square foot homes and commute between them by private jet telling you to shrink the size of your carbon footprint. Billionaires-turned-liberals late in life suggesting that your wealth is somehow at others' loss. There is also a rising chorus of voices selling us on a new mandate to accept 'less'. Obama has said we must give up the idea of keeping our homes at 72-degrees and live less comfortably, drive less, even eat less food...and, of course, keep less of the wealth we create. You want to ignore all of this b.s. and feel proud to be a pursuer of More.
The more 'More' you pursue and get, the more good you automatically do for others, and the more good you can deliberately do as well. So, to celebrate July, this Issue is about "GET MORE."
How to GET MORE of a lot of different things. I have written it immediately before jetting off to the U.K. for a week, to get more of the Brit's money and bring it back here. On that long flight, I'll be scheming about how to get more customers by more means with more speed when I get back. And it seems to me that the main reason more people don't get More is that they just aren't thinking about it, noodling it, being creative about it, working at it, and taking pride in it. Right now, a lot of people are actually voluntarily, shamefully shifting their thinking into reverse; instead of thinking about getting More, they've turned their thoughts to getting by with Less until "this recession blows over" -- as if it were a summer thunderstorm. It is not. It is a Transition to the New Economy, where there is more opportunity than ever. Different, but more."
Amen to the thought of GETTING MORE!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Sport Specific Training
Ultimate Officials has taken great pride in knowing that we have conducted extensive studies of the movements referee's and linesmen take during a game, how often they make certain moves, and we have put together the most comprehensive workout plan that IS REFEREE SPECIFIC on the planet.
Here's a few myth's vs. facts we've also discovered:
MYTH: Running is a good exercise for refereeing, such as the ability to run a 2 mile run.
FACT: Hockey is a game that involves 2-3 sprints over short periods of time, followed by stationary standing, gliding, or slow movements. There is no such movement and/or movements in a hockey game that mimics a 2 mile run.
MYTH: The best cardio for hockey is High Interval Intensity Training (HIIT).
FACT: HIIT is much better than running, but it still does not mimic the movement patterns that a referee or linesmen undergo in a hockey game. Ultimate Officials has studied the best officials in the game, working the most intense hockey on the planet. HIIT is not the way to go.
MYTH: Using weight machines, with prescribed motions, is the way to build muscles for hockey.
FACT: There are two main strength patterns that referee (referee's only have one pattern) and linesmen must master, and weight machines, even most cases free weights, are of no advantage to the referee.
MYTH: To cut fat, you must eat less food and deny yourself.
FACT: To cut fat, you must eat MORE food.
MYTH: Following an off-season training regiment that hockey players follow is the key to becoming better on the ice as an official.
FACT: A hockey player regiment is better than what you'll find most people doing at the club (riding a stationary bike is in no way sport-specific for refereeing), but there is a more specific way to train.
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Linkorama: Matt Birk of the Minnesota Vikings trains with former Viking, Mike Morris, to work on the most sport-specific training for NFL players:
Star Tribune Article here
"When you play football, and you're out in space trying to block a linebacker, you need a different kind of strength than the kind you get in the weight room," Birk said.
Birk backs his truck out. The parking lot is long, and I steer while he pushes his truck its entire length. Then -- and this isn't quite fair -- I push Birk's truck with him in it, all the way back.
Twice.
Birk does this a third time, with Morris steering, while I go into the bushes and eject my morning Starbucks.
Birk and Morris find this a convenient time to tell stories. Birk, who attended Cretin-Derham Hall High, said then-Vikings offensive line coach Mike Tice sent him to Morris to get stronger. So Birk showed up and worked out with Morris and Vikings such as Todd Steussie in Morris' basement, and Birk became one of the great overachievers in NFL history -- a sixth-round pick who has been selected to six Pro Bowls.
Birk, after his first MILO workout, found he couldn't bend over to touch his knees. And he urinated blood for a few days.
"I asked him if he had gotten that looked at," Morris said. "He said 'No.' It went away. So I guess it was OK."
Morris shrugged, and we head inside for four sets of two different triceps lifts. I'm hurting now, but it's not really my muscles. It's that, while pushing the truck, my internal organs fought like divergent Middle Eastern religious sects.
I eject more Starbucks in the bathroom, then finish the sets. Birk hardly looks tired."
For Information regarding the most sport specific training for hockey officials, CLICK HERE
Here's a few myth's vs. facts we've also discovered:
MYTH: Running is a good exercise for refereeing, such as the ability to run a 2 mile run.
FACT: Hockey is a game that involves 2-3 sprints over short periods of time, followed by stationary standing, gliding, or slow movements. There is no such movement and/or movements in a hockey game that mimics a 2 mile run.
MYTH: The best cardio for hockey is High Interval Intensity Training (HIIT).
FACT: HIIT is much better than running, but it still does not mimic the movement patterns that a referee or linesmen undergo in a hockey game. Ultimate Officials has studied the best officials in the game, working the most intense hockey on the planet. HIIT is not the way to go.
MYTH: Using weight machines, with prescribed motions, is the way to build muscles for hockey.
FACT: There are two main strength patterns that referee (referee's only have one pattern) and linesmen must master, and weight machines, even most cases free weights, are of no advantage to the referee.
MYTH: To cut fat, you must eat less food and deny yourself.
FACT: To cut fat, you must eat MORE food.
MYTH: Following an off-season training regiment that hockey players follow is the key to becoming better on the ice as an official.
FACT: A hockey player regiment is better than what you'll find most people doing at the club (riding a stationary bike is in no way sport-specific for refereeing), but there is a more specific way to train.
************************************************************************************
Linkorama: Matt Birk of the Minnesota Vikings trains with former Viking, Mike Morris, to work on the most sport-specific training for NFL players:
Star Tribune Article here
"When you play football, and you're out in space trying to block a linebacker, you need a different kind of strength than the kind you get in the weight room," Birk said.
Birk backs his truck out. The parking lot is long, and I steer while he pushes his truck its entire length. Then -- and this isn't quite fair -- I push Birk's truck with him in it, all the way back.
Twice.
Birk does this a third time, with Morris steering, while I go into the bushes and eject my morning Starbucks.
Birk and Morris find this a convenient time to tell stories. Birk, who attended Cretin-Derham Hall High, said then-Vikings offensive line coach Mike Tice sent him to Morris to get stronger. So Birk showed up and worked out with Morris and Vikings such as Todd Steussie in Morris' basement, and Birk became one of the great overachievers in NFL history -- a sixth-round pick who has been selected to six Pro Bowls.
Birk, after his first MILO workout, found he couldn't bend over to touch his knees. And he urinated blood for a few days.
"I asked him if he had gotten that looked at," Morris said. "He said 'No.' It went away. So I guess it was OK."
Morris shrugged, and we head inside for four sets of two different triceps lifts. I'm hurting now, but it's not really my muscles. It's that, while pushing the truck, my internal organs fought like divergent Middle Eastern religious sects.
I eject more Starbucks in the bathroom, then finish the sets. Birk hardly looks tired."
For Information regarding the most sport specific training for hockey officials, CLICK HERE
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