If you didn't know, I have been working on a project with Greg Friese, Rob Theriault, and Bill Toon who are the co-hosts of the EMS Educast (www.emseducast.com). This project is known as the EMS Educast Mini Edition. We have put together 4 episodes so far to go along with their regular EMS Educast, and we find topics of interest that will help the EMS Education community. As these episodes continue to post, I am going to put a little more information here about how the topic was developed.
In the latest edition that posted this morning (15 Mar 2013), I discuss relate sports with EMS education. Now, I was once a professional basketball fan and loved to watch Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bull as they went for the 6 National Championships. It was a sight to see, a cohesive team operation that while it focused on a superstar, each member would step up and show what needed to be done in those last clutch minutes. BJ Armstrong, a young talented athlete would control the flow of the game with his point guard skills, directing the plays, while Bill Cartwright and Horace Grant would hang out down below and set the pick, drop the down low shot in the bucket, or clean up with massive rebounding skills. It was an amazing sight to see, but really nothing any different then those tragic EMS calls we run to.
I have often heard that EMS and Fire response is a lot like organized CHOAS. Things are flying around, people are moving hurriedly, and from the outside in looks like we have no rhythm to our operations, when in truth we have a unique pattern to the way things get done. Even then, how do I choose the title Michael Jordan Teaches EMS? Now, I said I was going to give away the development of the project, not the content. Think about it, MJ23 was, and actually still is considered one of the best basketball players of all time. His work on the court was genius, but he wasn't always that way. He was actually cut from his high school basketball team, and then worked and worked till he became a 6-time champion and the highest paid player in the game. He left the sport to go and play baseball, and if you watch the documentaries on his progress would find that he was doing the exact same thing in the sport of baseball (although it was taking a little longer).
How did Michael Jordan achieve such success. He has a coach who taught the skills, he would practice the skills with the coach, then he had the drive to continue practicing well beyond the basic level. This is how @MJ23 teaches EMS.
Find out more by going to the EMS Educast. (http://www.emseducast.com/archives/1049)
In the latest edition that posted this morning (15 Mar 2013), I discuss relate sports with EMS education. Now, I was once a professional basketball fan and loved to watch Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bull as they went for the 6 National Championships. It was a sight to see, a cohesive team operation that while it focused on a superstar, each member would step up and show what needed to be done in those last clutch minutes. BJ Armstrong, a young talented athlete would control the flow of the game with his point guard skills, directing the plays, while Bill Cartwright and Horace Grant would hang out down below and set the pick, drop the down low shot in the bucket, or clean up with massive rebounding skills. It was an amazing sight to see, but really nothing any different then those tragic EMS calls we run to.
I have often heard that EMS and Fire response is a lot like organized CHOAS. Things are flying around, people are moving hurriedly, and from the outside in looks like we have no rhythm to our operations, when in truth we have a unique pattern to the way things get done. Even then, how do I choose the title Michael Jordan Teaches EMS? Now, I said I was going to give away the development of the project, not the content. Think about it, MJ23 was, and actually still is considered one of the best basketball players of all time. His work on the court was genius, but he wasn't always that way. He was actually cut from his high school basketball team, and then worked and worked till he became a 6-time champion and the highest paid player in the game. He left the sport to go and play baseball, and if you watch the documentaries on his progress would find that he was doing the exact same thing in the sport of baseball (although it was taking a little longer).
How did Michael Jordan achieve such success. He has a coach who taught the skills, he would practice the skills with the coach, then he had the drive to continue practicing well beyond the basic level. This is how @MJ23 teaches EMS.
Find out more by going to the EMS Educast. (http://www.emseducast.com/archives/1049)
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