Swish Clinic This Weekend

Tom Nordland, one of the top shooting coaches in the country, will be putting on two clinics at the Colin Powell Center on 4th Ave. and Lake Street in Minneapolis this coming weekend, as follows:

• Friday, Oct. 10th (5-9PM)

• Sunday evening, Oct. 12th (5-9PM)

LOCATION:
Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center
2924 4th Avenue South
Minneapolils, MN 55408

These clinics are 4 hours long and Tom will coach up to 24 kids/clinic. They are open to both kids AND coaches. The coaches will take the clinic as a student, as that’s the best way to coach anything ... be able to do it yourself, be in the “stew” of learning, so to speak. He’ll continually point out the coaching points during the clinics.

FEES

The fees are reduced for these clinics, in light of the challenging economy we are all facing:

• Regular fee for a player: $50, which includes the Swish 1 DVD

• Regular price augmented (includes both Swish videos*), $60

• Fee for siblings, $40, no video (where first sibling pays full price)

• Fee for repeaters: $40 (no video)

• Repeaters price, including Swish 2: $50

• Fee for coaches, including Swish 2: $40

*The package of both videos is worth $45 alone.

ON-LINE ENROLLMENT IS AVAILABLE

Go to this web page for details on the clinics and the links to enroll On Line:

http://www.swish22.com/Clinics_Minnesota_1008.html

Tom's clinics are getting more and more exciting and effective as he sees additional things all the time and new ways to say and coach them. He'll be teaching the "Swish Free Throw" at these clinics, a new and extremely powerful way to approach this simple-but-challenging shot. He can see that the main thing he's doing (and teaching others to do) is coaching kids to be able to coach themselves. As they learn to shoot a basketball -- and, more powerfully for them, how to learn anything -- their self images can alter and self esteem rise. This is one of the great things about sports, the potential for growth as human beings. Let’s work together to help more kids experience how awesome they truly are!

Thanks,

_______________ <------ YOUR NAME

P.S. Please note that there is secure parking both in front of the amazing Powell Center and also with underground parking (enter on the north side of the building, off 29th Street). If you have any concerns about this, please call Kelby Brothen, the Athletic Director at the Powell Center. His #’s are:

Work #: 612/638-1014

Cell: 612/720-8852

Email: urbanstars@urbanventures.org

P.P.S. Tom will be speaking and demonstrating at a special Youth Coaches’ Clinic on Saturday, the 11th. He’ll be presenting twice. Contact Coach Kelby for details. Dave Arseanault, head coach at Grinnell College in Iowa, the highest scoring team in the nation, will be presenting also.

Swish Clinic Is Coming To Town

Dear friend of the Swish Method,

Greetings to you and thanks for your support of the "Swish Method" of shooting a basketball. I will be coming to Minnesota Oct. 9-13 to be part of a Youth Coaches' Clinic at the amazing Colin Powell Leadership Center in south Minneapolis. The Coaches' Clinic is all day Saturday, the 11th. I'll be presenting twice.

Contact Kelby Brothen, Athletic Director for info about this special all-day Clinic:
Work #: 612/638-1014
Cell: 612/720-8852
Email: urbanstars@urbanventures.org

TWO CLINICS FOR KIDS & COACHES!
While I'm there I'll be putting on two clinics at the Powell Center, as follows:
· Friday after school, Oct. 10th (5-9PM)
· Sunday evening, Oct. 12th (5-9PM)

These clinics are 4 hours long and I can coach up to 24 kids at a time. Because of the Coaches' Clinic on Saturday, I'm going to open my clinics to both kids AND coaches. The coaches will take the clinic as a student, as that's the best way to coach anything ... be able to do it yourself, be in the "stew" of learning, so to speak. I'll continually point out the coaching points during the clinics.

FEES
NOTE: The fees are reduced for these clinics, in light of the challenging economy we are all facing. They are as follows:

Regular fee for a player: $50, which includes the Swish 2 DVD
Fee for siblings, $40, no video (where first sibling pays full price)
Fee for repeaters: $40 (no video)
Fee for coaches: $40 (including Swish 2)

ON-LINE ENROLLMENT IS AVAILABLE
Go to this web page for details on the clinics and the links to enroll On Line:
Colin Powell Center Shooting Clinics

I HOPE TO SEE YOU!
My clinics are getting more and more exciting and effective as I see additional things all the time and new ways to say and coach them. I can see that the main thing I'm doing (and teaching others to do) is coaching kids to be able to coach themselves in these simple principles. As they learn to shoot a basketball -- and, more powerful for them, how to learn anything -- their self images can alter and self esteem rise. This is one of the great things about sports, the potential for growth as human beings. Let's work together to help more kids experience how awesome they truly are!

Cheers,
Tom

P.S. Please note that there is secure parking both in front of the amazing Powell Center and also with underground parking (enter on the north side of the building, off 29th Street). If you have any concerns about this, please call Kelby Brothen. His #'s are above.

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Swish Website
Tel: 888/SWISH-22 (888/794-7422)
Originator of the Official Swish Method of Shooting!
For a Basketball Shooting Renaissance!
My cell phone while traveling: 831/247-4519

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Minnesota basketball shooting expert returns for clinics at Powell Center

The “SWISH SHOOTING TOUR” is coming to Minnesota this month. Tom Nordland, one of Minnesota’s greatest high school shooters, is returning to put on a set of clinics for coaches and players at the Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center in south Minneapolis. The creator of the highly-acclaimed Swish and Swish 2 shooting videos, Tom is on a mission to shift the way the “Lost Art” of shooting is understood, learned and taught.

In conjunction with Kelby Brothen and the “Urban Stars Basketball Club,” Tom will put on eight 4-hour clinics from April 30th through May 5th. Some of the clinics are reserved for the Powell Center kids, but most are open to the public, and two of them will be just for coaches. You can see the details and enroll at Tom’s website (www.swish22.com). Click on “Clinics, Camps, Lessons.”

Tom’s approach to basketball’s most important skill is different from the way shooting is normally taught, yet it can be proven to be the way of the great shooters. It comes from being a great high school shooter at Minnesota Roosevelt* who lost his touch for over 30 years and then rediscovered it 18 years ago. Because of this experience, he sees shooting in a different light, in terms of big muscles vs. small muscles, minimizing variables, the importance of alignment of hand and ball with the eye, the generation and use of inertia to make accuracy easier, and a constant, automatic Release. In a word, he’s “simplified” the skill of shooting.

As Dale Davis, former Indiana Pacer and Detroit Piston power forward put it years ago, Tom teaches “a combination of technique and the science of repeatability.” That’s a beautiful way to describe it -- part technique, part the putting of shooting into a form that allows the shooter to find the center of the basket over and over and over, even under great pressure.

Current coaching methodology isn’t working. Mediocre shooting performance is rampant. You see a magnificent team like Memphis (final record 38-2) miss 4 of 5 crucial free throws where just one more of them would have won the game. For years our national teams have been getting beaten by teams with less physical ability and talent, but who have better teamwork and shooting. This is the “answer” people are seeking!

Visit Tom’s website for his background and the special endorsements, remarkable testimonials, video clips, articles, and a collection of 107 monthly Newsletters. Come to the Powell Center and learn how to coach yourself and others.

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Contact: Tom Nordland

Swish International, Inc.

888/794-7422

Tom@swish22.com

*Tom lead his ‘57 team to the second of two consecutive State Championships and was honored last year for the 50th anniversary of his free throw record that was tied by Cody Schilling of Ellsworth -- 19 in one game.