Vincent Zhou Wins Bronze at the 2022 World Championships!
USA TODAY: Vincent Zhou's story gets a happy ending at worlds after a devastating run at the Beijing Olympics
CHRISTINE BRENNAN | MARCH 22, 2022
COACHING TIPS
Tom Z's Coaching Tips are a resource center providing tools to help skaters and anyone else interested in maximizing their training and athlete development process. Useful information is provided in such areas as: • Periodization • Goal Setting • Specific jump exercises • Agility • Speed • Coordination and timing drills
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Steadfast in his beliefs to use sports science to educate and train his skaters, Tom Zakrajsek is a passionate and committed award winning figure skating coach who knows how to achieve Olympic results. If you would like to speak one-on-one with Tom, he has limited openings each month to schedule a private call with interested coaches, parents and skaters*. These confidential calls provide in-depth access to tackle your most challenging issues.
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Vincent Zhou won a Bronze Medal at the 2019 World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, Japan under Coach Tom Z's training.
Coach Tom Z was a recipient of an Order of Ikkos Coaching Award from the USOPC at the 2018 Olympics Games.
Team USA Develops Gold-Medal Coaches With Innovative Leadership Education Program
Coach Tom Z was one of the first USFS coaches selected for the United States Olympic Committee’s National Team Coach Leadership Education Program (NTCLEP).
The NTCLEP is the USOC’s blueprint to assist Team USA coaches in achieving international competitive excellence. The program is open to national team coaches of any Olympic, Paralympic or Pan American sport, and over the course of 16 months, coaches attend five seminars. This allows coaches the opportunity not only to learn from experts within the seminars, but learn from their colleagues as well. For many of the coaches, this unique environment was a large part of what attracted them to the NTCLEP.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power."
WORD OF THE MONTH
"Present"
pres·ent1
/ˈprez(ə)nt/
noun
the period of time now occurring.
"they are happy and at peace, refusing to think beyond the present"
Similar: now, today, the present time, the here and now, this day and age
"Skaters can reach their personal best when they remain present while competing."
SPORTS SCIENCE TIP OF THE MONTH
Working on floor jumps is very common. Try this exercise demonstrated by Phoebe Stubblefied, the fifth woman in the United States to land a triple axel, in order to develop the proper power angle and increase explosiveness on the take off.