The Break‑Through Club

I know you are wondering, how did I get access to this level of knowledge of how to achieve sporting dominance? Well, I have my own break-through story.

I started late to basketball, but took to it quickly. So much so that within three years of me picking up a ball, I received a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport to live, train, and play with the best junior basketball players in the country. My development skyrocketed, and I made the Australian team that played in the U19 World Championships. Following this, I received a scholarship to play Division 1 college basketball in the USA. I was on top of the world, ready to go over to America and dominate. Only I didn't. After a promising freshman year, I crashed. Badly. The next three years saw me playing less and less, and by my senior year I was seat-belted to the bench. I never played. It wasn't due to lack of effort; I was consistently the hardest-working person on the team. Even the coaches would vouch for that, they told me that my work ethic was maniacal. The problem was that it didn't translate across to the game. As my college career ended, I had become a no-hoper. I was completely unwanted, not a single prospect in sight.

To make matters worse, I sustained a major knee injury. It was debilitating, it completely destroyed my athletic ability. I couldn't bend my leg properly, and sitting in a car seat for any more than 5 minutes was complete agony. After I limped my way back to Australia, I decided to get surgery to see if there was anything that could be done. The surgeon look at my MRI results and laughed. He said he was happy to operate on it, but I shouldn't expect much. In fact, after I woke up from the surgery, the first thing that he said to me was “Well, I hope you like coaching, because your playing days are over.” I cried right there on the spot. It seemed like everything that I had worked towards for a decade, something that seemed like an inevitability for me coming into college, was over.

On the car ride back home, I peered out the window and into the sky. As I did this, I was hit with what is called a snap point. I had enough of failing. I had enough of the limitations that were placed upon me. I had enough of not getting what I wanted. I vowed that I would do whatever I needed to make it happen. I had worked super hard before. I knew that I needed to work hard again. But this time I needed a different strategy. I needed to become a world-class athlete in my mind first. As soon as I got home, I set about figuring out how to do that.

Two years later, not only had I become a professional basketball player, I had become the starting centre for the Australian national team (the Boomers), AND I was a part of the Dallas Mavericks (NBA) preseason training camp. I played all over the world at the highest of levels, and played so well that I doubled my salary in three consecutive contract periods. The most unbelievable part of this was that I actually didn't get that much better at basketball. I already had so much ability from all of the training I did. But now that I mastered my mind and reconfigured my approach, I was able to access my full ability, under pressure, with extreme consistency. Injury caught up to me and cut my career short during my prime (I guess the surgeon wasn't completely off-base), but I had achieved so much in such a short period of time after a very late start.

Further, through my career, I became OBSESSED with understanding the mechanisms behind breakthrough success. I invested HEAVILY into my own education and knowledge. I earned my POSTGRADUATE in psychology. I worked closely with world-class sports psychologists, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, mental skills coaches, team-building specialists, and strength coaches!

On top of all of this, I had direct access to the minds of other world-class athletes. Throughout two decades I have lost count of the number of Olympians, World Champions, and top-level Professional Athletes from all sports that I talked with and learned from.

This background and journey is far different than the majority of other coaches. These coaches usually sit in one of two categories. At one end, you get the former athlete who has been good, but cannot articulate what they know. They mostly operated off of instinct, and can't teach someone else how to break-through (not to mention they struggle to put more than 7 words together). On the other end, you get the nerd who has read every book, done all of the weekend certifications, but isn't even the best player in their division-6 club team on a Tuesday night. They've never had to perform with their career on the line in front of 20,000 people ACHING for you to fail…and still be able to succeed through it all.

Quite honestly, my combination of world-class performance and world-class knowledge is unlike anything in the coaching world.

And it is yours to access fully to achieve your sporting goals.