Author: David Wollman
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Money Tree
The Davidwollman money tree Every money page and hub on davidwollman.com, and the posts that feed each one Drawn from the live internal links across 16 published posts and 49 pages, crawled 17 August 2026. Nothing is hand-placed: a branch is thick because posts link to it, and bare because none do. Read it bottom-up.Roots…
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This Week at Second Eye Consulting: The Cues That Sound Right But Keep Athletes Stuck
Every throws circle in the country has heard some version of these four cues this week. A coach stands at the edge of the ring, watches something break down, and calls out a fix. The athlete tries to obey. The problem doesn’t go away — it just moves, or it comes back next throw wearing…
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Teaching the Block and Finish
The Question This Article Answers Babbitt identifies “closing the door around a hinge” and “rotating the right hip and shoulder around rather than into the left hip” as key coaching observations linked directly to biomechanical data. Kipp’s research confirms that torso rotational velocity during delivery and peak horizontal discus velocity are among the strongest performance…
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The Hip-Shoulder Relationship: How Separation Creates Constant Acceleration
The Question This Article Answers Babbitt observes the right hip and shoulder rotating around the left hip in the delivery phase and calls it closing the door around a hinge. Kipp confirms that the world record throw exhibited a COM velocity vector only 5 degrees off the throwing direction at release. Both are measuring something…
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The Precision Performance Center Should Become SMU Football’s Next Strategic Investment. Because someone soon will see the obvious…Don’t be late to the Party, Ponies!! First in….wins!
By Dave Wollman “I’ve been thinking about this for twenty years. Indiana just proved I was right.” The Precision Performance Center Should Become SMU Football’s Next Strategic Investment. Because someone soon will see the obvious…Don’t be late to the Party, Ponies!! First in….wins! By Dave Wollman “I’ve been thinking about this for twenty years. Indiana…
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Building the Earliest Sling: Four Drills That Teach the On-It-Off-It Sprint
The Purpose of This Article Article 4 established the concept: the earliest possible sling begins when the left leg converts from rotational to linear movement before the right leg completes its arc, catching the right hip early and creating hip-to-discus separation sooner. This article is about how to build that movement in an athlete —…
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Orbital Path Explained
SECOND EYE CONSULTING · DAVE WOLLMAN · DALLAS, TEXAS FROM THE LAB TO THE FIELD · ARTICLE 4 OF 6 Orbit: What Creates the Longest and Earliest Sling The Question This Article Answers Babbitt’s data confirms that Alekna’s world record throw produced the longest orbital path in the series — 4.01 meters through the delivery…
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The Precision Performance Center: Football’s Next Frontier Is Already Here
The Precision Performance Center: Football’s Next Competitive Frontier By Dave Wollman “I’ve been thinking about this for twenty years. Indiana just proved I was right.” ——— Twenty Years I want to tell you where this idea came from. Not from watching Indiana’s championship season. Not from reading a research paper on motor learning. Not from…
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Article 3: From the Lab to the Field
SECOND EYE CONSULTING · DAVE WOLLMAN · DALLAS, TEXAS FROM THE LAB TO THE FIELD · ARTICLE 3 OF 6 Leaving Room to Work With: How Athletes Learn to Organize Space The Question This Article Answers Babbitt identifies “leaving room to work with” as one of the eight key coaching observations linked directly to biomechanical…
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HOW DID THEY DO IT?
Let’s take a look… By Dave Wollman “Everyone saw Indiana’s wins. I saw a coaching question that college football still hasn’t answered.” ——— People keep asking how Indiana did it. Not casually. Obsessively. Fans, analysts, rivals, recruiting coordinators at programs that lost to the Hoosiers — everyone wants to know. How did a staff assembled…