Joel Smith, Just-Fly-Sports.com
Just Fly Performance Podcast
The Just Fly Performance Podcast is dedicated to all aspects of athletic performance training, with an emphasis on speed and power development. Featured on the show are coaches and experts in the spectrum of sport performance, ranging from strength and conditioning, to track and field, to sport psychology. Hosted by Joel Smith, the Just Fly Performance Podcast brings you some of the best information on modern athletic performance available.
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Joel Smith, Just-Fly-Sports.com
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Jul 9, 2026
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Episodes
323: Leo Ryan on The Power of Breath Training for Workout Recovery and Athletic Capacity 08.09.2022 1:17:49
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-323/ Today’s episode features performance coach and breathing specialist, Leo Ryan. Leo is the founder of Innate-Strength.com. Leo has studied from many elite personal training, physical therapy and breathing schools including Dip. Buteyko Method, Wim Hof, Oxygen Advantage Master Instructor, Fascial Stretch Therapist, Strength and Condit...
322: John Garrish on Progressing Gallops, Skips and Bounds in Explosive Athletic Development 01.09.2022 1:21:38
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-322/ Today’s episode features strength and track coach, John Garrish. John is the director of athletic development at North Broward Preparatory School in Coconut Creek, Florida, and the school’s head track coach. John was recently voted the 2022 National High School Strength Coach of the Year by the National High School Strength Coach’s...
321: Katie St. Clair on Staggered Squats, Single Leg Mastery, and Dealing with High Foot Arches 25.08.2022 1:24:10
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-321/ Today’s episode features strength coach and biomechanics educator, Katie St. Clair. Katie been training general population and athletes for over 20 years, and is the creator of the Empowered Performance Program. She is one of my go-to sources of knowledge for all things biomechanics, and the finer details of human movement. She pre...
320: James DiBiasio and Collin Taylor on Leveling Up Skills, Speed and Capacity in a Total Training Program 18.08.2022 1:21:22
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast320/ Today’s episode features performance coaches James DiBiasio and Collin (CT) Taylor. James and CT work at T3 performance in Avon, Ohio, and have a progressive approach to athletic performance training, encapsulating strength, movement, athleticism in a holistic manner that fits with the progression of athletic skill, and leveling up on...
319: Cal Dietz, Dan Fichter and Chris Korfist: A Roundtable Discussion on Advanced Speed and Power Training Methods 11.08.2022 1:22:36
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-319/ Today’s episode welcomes back coaches Cal Dietz, Dan Fichter and Chris Korfist in a truly epic multi-guest podcast. The amount of coaching and learning experienced between Cal, Dan and Chris is staggering, and they have been influencing the training practices of other coaches since the early 2000’s. Speed training is always a fun top...
318: Pat Davidson on Aerial and Terrestrial Factors in Athletic Performance Training 04.08.2022 1:29:20
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-318/ Today’s episode features Pat Davidson, Ph. D.. Pat is an independent trainer and educator in NYC. Pat is the creator of the “Rethinking the Big Patterns” lecture series, is a former college professor, and is one of the most intelligent coaches I know in the world of fitness and human performance. As an athlete, Pat has an extensive...
317: Jeff Howser on Speed Training Wisdom From the Dark Side of the Moon 28.07.2022 1:14:19
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-317/ Today’s episode features track and sport performance coach, Jeff Howser. Jeff has been coaching track and field since 1971, and was himself a 6x ACC champion, named as one of the ACC’s top 50 track athletes of all time in 2003. Jeff was a sprints and hurdles coach at Florida, UCLA, NC State, Duke and UNC before his time as a speed a...
316: Simon Capon on Present-Moment Awareness and Flow-State Cultivation 21.07.2022 1:07:13
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-316/ Today’s episode features sports psychologist, Simon Capon. Simon is a hypnotherapist, Master NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner, as well as the author of the book “It’s Time to Start Winning.” Since 2006 Simon has worked with professional athletes, using variety of techniques including skills from NLP and hypnotherapy. ...
315: Rick Franzblau on Sprint and Strength Training Optimization Based on Athlete Structural Type 14.07.2022 1:23:29
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-314/ Today’s episode brings back Rick Franzblau, assistant AD for Olympic Sports Performance at Clemson University. In his two decades in athletic performance, Rick has worked with a wide variety of sports, as well as gained an incredible amount of knowledge in both the technology, and biomechanics ends of the coaching spectrum. Rick, as...
314: Alex Effer on “Jacked Shoulders” in Sprinting, Athletic Squatting Mechanics, and Rotational Dynamics of Locomotion 07.07.2022 1:35:56
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-314/ Today’s episode brings back Alex Effer. Alex is the owner of Resilient Training, and has extensive experience in strength & conditioning, exercise physiology and the biomechanical function of the body. He also runs educational mentorships teaching biomechanics to therapists, trainers and coaches. Alex was recently on the show talki...
313: Joel Smith Q&A on Exercise Selection, Sport Speed Concepts, and Jump Training Setups 30.06.2022 1:05:43
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-313/ Today’s episode features a question and answer session with Joel Smith. On the show today, I answer questions related to “are there any bad exercises?”, sport speed concepts, jump training, “switching” sprint drills, and much more. I love being able to highlight and integrate information from so many of the past guests on this podcas...
312: Rob Gray on Higher Athletic Ceilings with Differential Learning and Optimized Variability Training 23.06.2022 1:03:30
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-312/ Today’s episode welcomes back to the show, Rob Gray, professor at Arizona State University and host of the Perception & Action Podcast. Rob Gray has been conducting research on, and teaching courses related to perceptual-motor skill for over 25 years. He focuses heavily on the application of basic theory to address real-world challe...
311: Kyle Dobbs on “Macro-to-Micro” Thinking in Strength, Speed and Corrective Exercise 16.06.2022 59:52
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-311/ Today’s episode features Kyle Dobbs. Kyle is the owner and founder of Compound Performance which offers online training, facility consulting and a personal trainer mentorship. He has an extensive biomechanics and human movement background (having trained 15,000+ sessions), and has been a two time previous guest on this podcast. In t...
310: Andrew Sheaff on A Fusion of Track and Swimming Concepts in Athletic Speed Development 09.06.2022 1:15:44
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-310/ Today’s episode features swim coach Andrew Sheaff. Andrew is an assistant swimming coach at the University of Virginia, winners of the last two NCAA women’s championships. In addition to swim coaching, Sheaff has an extensive background in strength and conditioning, including an internship under Buddy Morris. A collegiate swimmer a...
309: Rob Assise on Plyometric Complexes, “Crescendo Sets” and Variability in Speed and Power Training 02.06.2022 1:03:25
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-309/ Today’s episode features Rob Assise. Rob has 19 years of experience teaching mathematics and coaching track and field at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. He also has coached football and cross country, and is also the owner of the private training business, Re-evolution athletics. Rob has appeared on multiple prior episodes of the po...
308: Will Ratelle on Explosive Training Specificity, Olympic Lift Debates, and Avoiding Redundant Exercises 26.05.2022 1:18:36
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-308/ Today’s episode features Will Ratelle. Will is a strength coach, at the University of North Dakota, working with football, basketball, volleyball and tennis athletes. He is also the owner of “W2 Performance”. Prior to working in the performance field, he spent time as a professional football player, spending time with the Atlanta Fa...
307: Dan John on High-Velocity Learning, Games for Explosive Athletes, and Training Synergy 19.05.2022 1:22:19
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-307/ Today’s episode features strength coach, track coach and writer, Dan John. Dan is a legendary contributor to the world of human performance, having written numerous top-selling books in strength development, such as “Easy Strength”, as well as having coached and taught athletes for decades. He has been a multi-time guest on this pod...
306: Rolf Ohman on The Elastic Strength Index and Specificity of Power Development in Athletics 12.05.2022 1:06:10
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-306/ Today’s episode features coach and inventor, Rolf Ohman. Rolf was born in Sweden but grew up in Brisbane, Australia. He has worked for over 40 years in international sports, as an athlete (Decathlon) and as coach at International and National level. He was the Head Coach for the Dalian Olympic Sports Center 2016-17 and Assistant Hea...
305: Tim Anderson on Rolling Techniques to Move Better, Improve Gait, and “Connect the X” of the Body 05.05.2022 1:11:03
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-305/ Today’s episode features Tim Anderson. Tim is the co-owner of the Original Strength Institute, and has been a personal trainer for over 20 years. He has written and co-written many books on human performance including The Becoming Bulletproof Project, Habitual Strength, Pressing RESET, and Original Strength Performance. When it come...
Rafe Kelley and Charles St. John on “Supercharging” Games and Building Dynamic Learning Models 28.04.2022
Today’s episode features Rafe Kelly and Charles St. John. Rafe is the owner of Evolve Move Play, and has studied and taught a multitude of movement practices spanning gymnastics, parkour, martial arts, weightlifting, Cross-fit and more for decades. His passion to is help people build the physical practice that will help make them the strongest, most adaptable and resilient version of themselves...
303: Rocky Snyder on Optimizing Foot and Glute Function with a Joint-Based Approach to Training 21.04.2022 1:30:25
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-303/ Today’s show features biomechanist, coach and author, Rocky Snyder. Rocky is the owner of “Rocky’s Fitness” in Santa Cruz, California. Rocky is an accomplished personal trainer with an absolutely immense library of knowledge in multiple disciplines of human performance, such as biomechanics, exercise selection and neurology. Rocky i...
302: Jeremy Frisch, Austin Jochum and Jake Tuura on Engineering “Athlete-Centered” Training and Problem Solving Athletic Development 14.04.2022 1:10:29
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-302/ Today’s show features a roundtable discussion featuring Jeremy Frisch, Austin Jochum and Jake Tuura. Jeremy is the owner of Achieve Performance Training, Austin runs Jochum Strength, and Jake is the owner of “Jacked Athlete”. All three of these individuals were previously strength coaches of NCAA DI institutions before getting into...
301: Randy Huntington Answers Listener Questions on Speed and Power Development 07.04.2022 1:24:10
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-301/ Today’s show welcomes back track coach Randy Huntington, a track coach who has spent his recent years as the national track and field coach for the Chinese Athletics association. Randy has coached numerous Olympians, gold medalists, and world record holders in his time as a track coach, and one of his recent successes was training Su...
300: Bobby Whyte on Game-Specific Acceleration, Motor Learning and Confidence Building in Basketball Performance Training 31.03.2022 1:06:14
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-300/ Today’s show welcomes back Bobby Whyte. Bobby is an athletic performance and basketball skill enhancement trainer operating out of northern New Jersey. Bobby recently appeared on episode 178 of the podcast https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-178-bobby-whyte/, speaking on his integration of strength and skill training for basketb...
299: Tony Villani on NFL Combine Speed, Game Speed, and Focusing Where it Counts 24.03.2022 1:28:04
More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-299/ Today’s show welcomes Tony Villlani, sports performance coach and owner of XPE sports in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Tony has coached over twenty #1 finishes in the NFL combine and is the creator of the Game Speed and Separation Movement Web. Tony has worked with many of the top NFL players in the league, but will tell you that his lea...
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