18 February 2010

Ground Zero

The Gold Medal Amateur Athletic Club, your friendly neighborhood non-profit, has gone where we didn't want to go... into the 'blogosphere.'  Yuck.  I guess there is always the fact that we have still managed to avoid Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. I suppose those dominoes will fall, too, someday.

Regardless, given the havoc that the recent migration from GooglePages to GoogleSites unleashed upon our over-the-hill volunteer webmaster, we have decided to streamline and just put it all right here. 

The idea is to archive some training-related content on here, use this page to keep folks updated on our activities, and generally spread the word.

All of this, of course, in the spirit of the Gold Medal Amateur Athletic Club's reason for incorporation:  to promote amateur athletics at the national level, by directly supporting the parents and coaches in our events who donate so much time, knowledge and effort to the task of creating better athletes.  These days, a major hurdle in the path to succes in that task is overcoming the trend of all those who seek to obfuscate the basic tenets of fitness and sports performance, while simultaneously "selling the secrets" at prohibitive cost.

Yes, the beaten path is for a beaten man. Here, science points us in new directions and functions as our primary navigator in uncharted waters, but we at GMAAC never forget that SPECIFICITY will always be KING, and "the fundamentals" are fundamental for a reason...