UO Strength and Conditioning: "Bullets Over Bowling Balls: Sculpting the Ideal Athlete"

When the season is over, and the Ducks are removed from the court or the field, they don't take a break. Instead, they work year-round with one of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the world, a man that spends the entire year helping athletes at the University of Oregon reach their full potential.

For over 26 years, Jim Radcliffe has been the driving force behind many of the successes of Oregon athletics. An unsung hero of the Duck's sports programs, Coach Radcliffe is a leading expert and pioneer in the world of plyometrics and explosive weight training. He can be seen on the sidelines of every football game, but few fans would recognize him as the key component to the fast tempo and explosive style that all Duck sports programs have trademarked over recent years. Year-round, he runs, jumps, and lifts just as often as the student-athletes do, instructing newcomers and veterans alike. This video is a short profile of Oregon's very own sculptor of ideal athletes, demonstrating some of his coaching methods, his unique style, and the great respect his athletes have for him.

This video was created in less than 12 hours for a one-week class (June 15-20, 2010) at the University of Oregon titled "J408: Working in Sports Media", a class which brought together both students and student athletes with an interest in media to give both a hands-on experience with creating a sports-related story. The class was instructed by Deb Morrison, Dan Morrison, Mark Blaine, and Rebecca Force, with guest lectures from famed Duck Alums Dan Fouts and Neil Everett. This video was created by the group of Nick Cody, Jasmin Holliday, Will Von Schlegell, and Jillian Kay, all students in the Journalism school at UO.

Special thanks to Jim Radcliffe and Arthur Tolhurst for interviews, and thanks to Steve Pohl and James Harris for providing many of the highlight sports clips used during the video.

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[UofO08]

awesome vid. need more in depth stuff about Oregon's Strength and Conditioning program.

[TheNC61]

@UofO08 I'd love to, but then everyone would know the top-secret stuff going on at the Casanova Center! Plus, we were told to make a 3-4 minute video, so we were already pushing it.

[dobberdoss]

quack quack!!

[roac152]

Coach Rad is a boss.

[Jaws425]

I met coach Radcliffe in the 80's when I was in HS looking at the UofO as a potential school to play FB at. He talked to me and taught me that being the smallest DB was irrelevant to be the best DB. They worked! I can only imagine what 25 more years of knowledge and experience have taught him beyond what he knew in the 80's and early 90's!

[lsualua]

Best strength and conditioning coach in the land. I miss the motivational quotes stuffed into our shoes before game time, don't know how much i miss the running thou. Youre the man Coach Rad.

[lindberghflyers314]

id love a coach like that

[me9rob]

@marinz4life well that goes both ways. For example it's pretty amazing how oregon thinks they're light years ahead of USC as a program, because they beat two of the worst SC teams in the past decade.

[marinz4life]

@TheNC61. Hey Nick...tough game last night. It 's amazing how short the USC fans memories are. Somehow they see their narrow 3 point win as a larger margin than the our 21 and 27 pt wins the past couple of years. Tell the team we love them and lets go smash the Beavs and win in the Rose Bowl.

Go Ducks!

[mrkitanai1]

I went to one of Radcliffe's seminars, and he is phenomenol! He's a small guy - looks to be about 5'6" and 150lbs, but he is EXPLOSIVE! He's an older guy, but his fitness - speed, explosiveness, flexibility is off the charts. He's a ball of energy! But also a very humble and personable guy.

[sk8ermaster1]

dude 1 of oregons stength and conditioning coachs coach my high school now

[bhsvideodad]

Great video. I wish I had seen it before making my video on the Oregon Men's Lacrosse team, which has a section on the Strength and Conditioning program. I shot the video in November 2010, it's called "We're Out Here."

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