Dr. Ken interview done.
January 14, 2009Alright sports fans, I’ve finished another podcast. This one is with world famous sports psychologist Dr. Ken Ravizza. Ken is a consultant to the Angels, Dodgers, CSUF and Long Beach State baseball teams, the U.S. Olympic teams, the Arizona State and Nebraska football teams, as well as many individual athletes. Dr. Ravizza is a professor at CSUF where I was a student of his in the late 80’s. Oh yeah, he’s also the author of the great book “Heads Up Baseball”. He’s a man with a ton of great wisdom on peak performance and athletics.
I hope players, coaches, and fans will benefit from the podcast…that is, if you can get past my wordiness. I’ll pre-apologize right here and now for being a shaky interviewer. I’ll tell you what, that job isn’t as easy as it looks. Having always been on the other end of the mic, I was under the impression that the journalist job was pretty simple. Wrong. It’s an art to do a good interview. I find myself really paying attention to the interviewers rather than the interviewees on TV now and I did get on to Amazon to order the best couple “Art of Interviewing” type books I could find. I promise to clean my act up and get better. Eventually I’ll mix in a grasp of the English language, learn how to ask a simple question, and then just get the hell out of the way and let the other person speak. Oh well, live and learn. At least I’m not crash and burning in front of 10 million people on the red carpet of the Golden Globes or something….hey speaking of that, Tiki Barber was solid wasn’t he? He really held his own out there and gave me hope that an ex-athlete can thrive in that arena.
Oh yeah, to access the podcast, just go to the home page of The Art of Catching website and push the podcast button from the menu at the top. You can try the iTunes route, but as with last time, it may take a couple days to get posted there.
Great interview. You need to cut yourself some slack. I really enjoyed the one with your Dad, too. Was hoping for a “Christ Almighty!” though
Might be a good time to contact Augie for an interview, sounds like he’s gonna have some free time on his hands. Sad.
What happed to Augie? I didn’t hear.
Oh, and thanks for the comment on the Ravizza interview.
Augie…DUI and subsequent suspension