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CHASING THE
LIGHT
with
John Schmidtke
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said. “You catch it with your eyes.”
We wanted to know his bas- ketball strategy. Instead, he told us how to live life. He quoted from Sun Tzu’s ancient Chi- nese philosophical treatise The Art of War: “The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.”
He had his guys meditate. He told them, “We’re gonna think about breathing. If you just work on your breathing, that will help you to be in the moment.”
says, “You gotta know where the ball is at and then use your hands to catch it, but you can’t do it unless you watch the ball go into your hands. If you close your eyes, you don’t know where the ball is. How you gonna catch it?”
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ou have to look at the ball to catch it,” coach Lopes
What he did was so offbeat for the times. ESPN covered one session of meditation at a coach Lopes practice.
Coach Lopes is today a vi- tal 90-year-old who remem- bers well that game from 40 years ago that showed the world he was a master trail- blazer of human potential.
Keep Your Eyes On The Ball
“Forever – is composed of Nows.” — Emily Dickinson
players from across the coun- try. Coach Lopes recruited guys at neighborhood outdoor courts.
Lopes explains. “Everything I did was offbeat.”
ing at peak potential.
Or as coach Merv Lopes
Coach Lopes, like success- ful leaders in every discipline, turned the complex concept into simple reality: He asked his team to buy in.
Staying in the now doesn’t allow living in the past or wor- rying about the future. Players completely in the now are in “the zone”— a state of such high focus it leads to perform-
John Schmidtke is an attor- ney in Honolulu.
Chasing The Light is pro- duced by Robin Stephens Rohr and Lynne Johnson.
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Buy into what?
“You are responsible for what you are and not, there’s no blame allowed,” coach
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On Dec. 23, 1982, Merv Lopes coached Chaminade’s NAIA basketball team to a 77-72 win over the Universi- ty of Virginia, the top-ranked NCAA team in the country. Sports Illustrated called it the biggest upset in the history of college basketball. Power- house Virginia recruited elite
“It was to bring my players’ full attention in the moment. To stay in the now,” Lopes ex- plained.
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