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Slow The Game Down
provides player
development program specializing in methods, tools
and techniques that enable athletes to
consistently get into a High Performance Focus---
a unique process than enables individuals to
maximize the coordination of their eyes, mind and
body to reach the highest level of personal
potential possible.
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Dr. Bill Harrison
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For 30 years, Dr. Bill Harrison, a renowned sports
performance specialist, has been utilizing the sports world
as a performance laboratory for analyzing, testing and
creating a methodology to help athletes develop the skills
that can create champions. He found he was able to help
athletes develop the heightened visual awareness that seems
to be the key in unlocking the door that allows them
entrance to “The Zone.” This performance laboratory
including work with great athletes such as George Brett,
Jason Giambi, Shawn Green, Greg Maddux, Jim Colbert, Billy
Casper, the Miller family (Reggie, Cheryl and Darrell), Lisa
Fernandez, Jennie Finch and many others. Through the
utilization of Internet technology, Dr. Harrison’s
methodology is now available to anyone and everyone seeking
to achieve success on the sports field.
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Ryan
Harrison
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Ryan Harrison has a degree in Exercise Physiology from
University of California at Davis where he was a kicker for
the football team. A sports enthusiast, he played three
varsity sports in high school—football, soccer and baseball.
He joined Performance Fundamentals Inc. full time 3 years
ago and has been working with International Softball,
Professional and Amateur Baseball, and Football teams.
Following his work with top professional and amateur
athletes, he conceived the idea of training necessary
performance skills with digital technology. The EyeAdvantage™
Software is a result of his goal to develop training
products so that everyone could benefit at a fraction of the
cost of having this training and without the need to go to a
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John Adams
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At a relatively late age for a professional golfer’s
John switched from a college baseball player, occasional
week-end golfer to a serious golfer. He won several
NCAA college golf tournaments and within five years
became a golf professional and played on the Canadian
Professional Golf Tour. He played alongside many top
professionals—Mike Wier, Duffy Waldorf, Chris Dimarco,
Paul McGinley, Padrig Harrington, Robert Allenby and
Darren Clarke. Now an amateur John in 2003 played so
well in the U.S. Open Qualifying
rounds that he was within a few shots of playing in the
U.S. Open. This was highly remarkable when taking in
consideration that he was playing the qualifying rounds
while being a full-time businessman. |
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mike "Bo" DIAZ
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Bo has enjoyed a diverse professional
career, spanning over twenty years as both a businessman
and professional athlete. He received his “Bo” nickname
while playing professional baseball for 15 years.
During his professional career, he played for the
Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates,
Chicago White Sox and the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan.
Bo also received the prestigious “Community Service
Award” in 1987 while playing in Pittsburgh for his
tireless support with charitable organizations. Bo also
coaches youth basketball, football and softball in
Gilbert, Arizona.
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Slow The Game Down ASSOCIATE STAFF
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Ray Carrasco
GOLF
Development
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Ray
is the 2004 leading money winner of the European Senior
Golf Tour following the recent winning of the Ryder Cup
Wales Open. Ray made a flying start to the 2003 Seniors
Tour season when won the Digicel Jamaica Classic.. Nine
months earlier he had also produced one of the most
sensational victories of the 2002 season when he edged
out Seiji Ebihara at the Travis Perkins Seniors Masters
at Wentworth Club. Ray is the eldest of 15 children. He
became hooked on the game while watching Sam Snead and
Roberto de Vicenzo on television in 1975 but for the
next three years had no access to a golf course and had
to be content with knocking a ball around his
neighborhood. Ray's first hickory clubs cost 30 cents
each and he paid for them out of the money he earned
doing a paper round. He learned the basics of the game
by reading instruction articles in golf magazines but
became good enough to play on the US PGA Tour for two
years in the early 1970s. He won more than 100 U.S.
Mini-Tour events before turning 50 in 1997. |
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Dr. Craig Farnsworth
GOLF
Development
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A protégé of Dr. Harrison, Dr.
Craig Farnsworth has spent 30 years in golf. His expertise is
with putting and the concentration that goes into
perhaps the game's most difficult and often frustrating
task. Many of the game's finest players from all Tours
have spent time with Farnsworth and his unique training
methods. He is the author of See It and Sink It (1997,
Harper Collins) and inventor of a Scoring Line Alignment
training aid. He has worked with thousands of golfers
including pros—Nick Faldo, Tom Kite,
Gary McCord, Annika Sorenstam, Bobby Wadkins, Jesper
Parnevik, Jill McGill, and many others.
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Chad Krueter
Baseball
Development
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Chad, a catcher, played 20 seasons in
major league baseball after playhing at Pepperdine
University. He assists the USC Trojan baseball team and
coaches his son’s travel baseball teams. |
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Grant
Fuhr
Hockey
Development
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2003
Hall of Fame Inductee,
Fuhr retired in 2000 after 19 years in
the NHL...During his career, he logged
868 games with 403 wins, 295 losses and
114 ties...Also recorded 25 career
shutouts...A member of five Stanley Cup
Championship Teams with the Edmonton
Oilers...Six-time NHL All-Star...Named
the 1985-86 All-Star game MVP...Won the
1987-88 Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top
goaltender... 2 Canada Cup Championships.
In 1995-96, Fuhr set NHL records for
most games played (79) and consecutive
starts (76) in a single season…2nd most
career wins in playoff history.
The ability to turn losses into wins and
losers into winners has made Grant Fuhr
a staple for six different NHL teams.
In the 1980's, Fuhr's clutch goaltending
guided the Oilers to five Stanley Cup
championships. Fuhr holds National
Hockey League single-season record for
most assists by a goaltender (14),
1983-84; holds National Hockey League
single-season record for most games
played by a goaltender (79), 1995-96;
holds National Hockey League
single-season record for most
consecutive appearances (76), 1995-96;
and shares the National Hockey League
single-season postseason record for most
wins by a goaltender (16), 1987-88.
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Nina
Lindenberg
Softball
Development
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Justin Frandson
Athleticism
Development
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Justin
is the current Director and prior to, after being Dean
Britteham’s apprentice for over six years. As a graduate
from the University of Southern California, Justin
trains world-class athletes in numerous sports in
developing their overall athleticism skills.
He has
trained athletes at the amateur, Olympic and
Professional level in most every sport. The program has
evolved into what we know it as today, Elite
Athleticism.
www.athleticism.com
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Ben Strack,
PH.D.
SPort
Psychologist
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Benjamin Strack,
Ph.D., is a Sports Psychologist. He specializes in working
with athletes to improve their mental skills and enhance
their performance. Dr. Strack uses cutting edge technologies
involving Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback and EEG
Neurofeedback to coach his clients in stress management and
performance enhancement.
Dr. Strack is a former Division I college baseball player.
He has worked with several Major League Baseball players as
well as other athletes at all levels including professional,
Olympic, college and high school. His areas of expertise
include mental skills training for peak performance,
biofeedback, stress/anxiety management, and chronic pain.
Dr. Strack is invited annually to be a pitcher in the MLB
Players’ Association and ESPN’s Big League Challenge Home
Run Contest. He is also a private hitting coach at The
Baseball Academy indoor training facility in Santa Ana, Ca.
and has conducted thousands of lessons in his 8 years as an
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Bill
Junkin
New
Business
Development
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Bill is currently
the Chairman of the Board of i TV Entertainment
formerly a subsidiary of Gemstar-TV Guide involved in
interactive entertainment. His management background
ranges from being the EVP of an Application Service
Provider to small and mid-size businesses throughout the
world to President of the Direct Marketing Division of
Saatchi & Saatchi after they purchased the agency he
founded and built into one of the top 30 in the US. He
was also the founder of FantaSports, a leading developer
of interactive fantasy sports games and properties for
the Internet and holds a number of US and International
Patents that cover this technology. Bill is a graduate
of Fordham University and has spoken extensively on
direct marketing and interactive media both here in the
U. S. as well as internationally. Additionally, he has
taught direct marketing courses for University of
Southern California and has led seminars on the subject
for the Alumni Association of the Harvard Business
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Jack Pryor
New
Business
Development
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Jack Pryor, a retired Colonel, has 35 years of
experience in the US Military, education and senior
management positions in industry and international
business. He served in recent years as the President of
a major international energy firm's Latin American
subsidiary. Colonel Pryor previously directed US drug
control policies in Latin America as the Director of
Counter-narcotics of the USSOUTHCOM. During his tenure
as President of the US Army Management Engineering
College, he served on the US Presidential Blue Ribbon
Panel for Educational Reform. Colonel Pryor is
considered one of the US Army's preeminent trainers, and
was involved in the establishment of the US National
Training Centers for heavy maneuver and Light Infantry
units. Additionally, he served as the Operations Officer
and Senior OC for Light Forces at the National Training
Center. Following the invasion of Panama , Colonel
Pryor was invited to advise the President of Panama, his
two Vice Presidents and key cabinet ministers on that
nation's national reconstruction strategy and its
implementation. He effectively bridged communications
between the Government of Panama and the US diplomatic
and military missions. Subsequent to his retirement
from the military, he assumed senior executive duties in
several US commercial firms and provided consulting to
senior government officials in four Latin American
nations.
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