Tenths of seconds can literally decide whether a player is the top overall pick or a second rounder in the NFL draft.  Outside of size, speed is the key ingredient an NFL team looks for when deciding who they are going to draft.  Some players go into the draft with one knock being their speed.  What do they do about this?  Most players go to speed coaches, but these guys don’t get the credit they truly deserve and NASFA has sat down with the best in the business, Coach Mo Streety.

Who is Coach Mo?  Coach Mo is a man who specializes in speed, conditioning, and overall athletic agility.  He is a busy man in Arizona who prepares athletes for the NFL draft as well as athletes in high school looking to go to college and also baseball players and youth athletes.  A man who does all this still finds time for coaching a local high school track team, running the Arizona Cardinals’ Youth Football club, and most importantly family and god.

You may have some players like Terrell Suggs, Shaun McDonald, J.J. Arrington, Manny Lawson, Gaines Adams, and Darrelle Revis post blistering 40 times at the NFL combine in recent years, but one thing you didn’t know is that all of these guys were coached by Coach Mo Streety prior to doing that.  Something you probably DID know is that Terrell Suggs came to Coach Mo running 4.9’s; McDonald, Revis, Arrington came running 4.5’s, Lawson came to him with 4.7’s and left running 4.4’s; I’d say this is a pretty successful program and his track record backs up my sentiment. 

There is so much more to being fast than natural speed; there is physical and mental preparation, running technique, conditioning, and just a basic knowledge of running the proper way.  We all know how much training the athletes put into it, but what does a guy like Mo Streety do?  You can read in-depth about Mo and his services at www.CoachMo.com.  What you can’t read at his site is that Coach Mo is like an athlete himself; he studies film of track sprinters, film of combines, and film of athlete’s he’s going to work with to see how HE can improve his program to help better the athlete.  Coach Mo credits former CB Aeneas Williams with developing his passion for bettering himself and always looking for ways to improve and stay on top of his game and in turn keeping his athletes progressing.  That work ethic was also developed because of Coach Mo’s military background.  That background is what Coach Mo says separates his speed program from other programs. 

Is it just Coach Mo that works this program?  It is a two-pronged program.  Coach Mo does some training by himself, but he works with Fischer Sports (www.fischer-sports.com) and according to Mo, the absolute best results come from athletes who work both programs.  Coach Mo says, “Brett Fischer has an excellent conditioning & sports therapy program.  We started working together three years ago and the results have been phenomenal”. 

This is just a little preview to what you’ll be getting here at NASFA and in PFN Magazine published by NASFA in the future as Coach Mo has signed on as a contributor to the magazine.  Coach Mo will be doing a monthly “Athletic Perspective” that will include some speed tips and things that will help YOU get better as an athlete.