Monday April 23, 2012 was a day where stop watches sighed, starting guns were holstered, and the world of olympic speed bowed its head in a moment of silence.
Doctor LeRoy Walker was given his angel wings.
He is the model of fly.
He is the model of fly.
Speed-o'philes and velocistas worldwide mourn lthe homegoing of Dr. LeRoy Walker, the first African-American coach of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field team, the first African-American President of the U.S. Olympic Committee, and former longtime coach at N.C. Central and mentor of our Grandmaster Norman Tate. "Doc Walker" as so many of us have fondly referred to him, is a pioneer in the sport of Track & Field and an enigma in the world of speed. Dr. Walker is the reason Phewsioneering and this blog exists. Dr. Walker has pressed many a stop watch for young men and women around the world.
He is the pen-less author of many stories of fatigue, lactic acid burn, and scintillating races that have yielded world class times and more importantly world class people. He set the bar for thos who have trained with him to never curse in practice, act like gentlemen, always be professional and
be aggressive.
During Walker’s coaching career, he coached athletes to 11 Olympic medals and sent track & field athletes to every Olympic Games from 1956 to 1980. His stellar reputation began when Lee Calhoun won back-to-back Gold Medals in the 110m hurdles in the 1956 and 1960 Summer Games. In all, Walker coached eight Olympians, 30 national champions, and 80 All Americans. He also served as a coach or consultant for several foreign Olympic Teams from 1960 through 1972, and in 1976, he was named the U.S. men’s head coach, the first African-American man to serve in that position. In addition to working as a physical education instructor and track & field coach, Doc Walker contributed to the world war II effort as director of the U.S. Army Specialized Training Program.
Many times athletes speak of their coach and their teachings. We at Phewsioneering had the opportunity to have been coached and mentored by Doc Walker. If there were a shaolin temple for speed, Doc Walker would be the Sifu that sits in the chamber room instructing and watching young speed monks execute the various forms. A popular culture reference would be as follows, Doctor Walker is the Yoda of speed. Norman Tate is the Obiwan Kenobe of speed and Phewsioneers are the Luke Skywalkers of speed around the world. We speak in the present about Doctor Walker because even in his homegoing, his touch and influence of so many young athletes lives. Doctor Walker is the genesis of the Phewsioneering launch codes that propel body weight and Phewsioneering continues to perpetuate speed as the keys to hope with the olympic spirit now being inphewsed to other sports.
Doctor Walker coached Phewsioneering's Grand Master Norman Tate at N.C.C.U. Coach Tate received the 'Grand Master' moniker because he is to speed as Grandmaster Flash is to turn-tables. Norm Tate coached GoGo for many years in High School, college and on the Professional circuit. GoGo had the opportunity to be coached by Doc Walker himself as Arizona State University interim head coach after major coaching changes took place at ASU. Doc Walker also introduce golf to GoGo as an option to relax and learn focus away from the silly circle, (the track).
Doc Walker introduce poles or pole progressions to GoGo and that was spark that triggered the analyzation of speed and its numeric values that speak a language many in the world do not know exist. The phew that do know the language of numbers that yield speed are producing some of the fastest athletes in the world. Phewsioneering is the ONLY entity that is producing speed in sport with an operating system outside of Track & Field. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, speed enthusiasts worldwide please know that the presentation, the walk, the air about a fast individual all was conveyed by Dr. LeRoy T. Walker. The algorithm taught to Norman Tate and GoGo which fuels the framework of Phewsioneering comes directly from Dr. LeRoy Walker and courses through the capillaries of young athletes such as Fernelys Sanchez, Trevor Reckling, Andrew Velasquez, Daniel Hardy, Ardelia Lovelace, Princeton Mcarthy and countless Phewsioneering athletes.
Doctor Walker, we love you, we will miss you and you live thru us all as we continue to perform with infinity in our stopwatch screens, always awaiting.."READY..BEGIN" and shouting the speed mantra in which you are the genesis..... Phewsioneering Y'all!!!
