FORGET THE millions that Michael Phelps will make from wearing a certain watch, playing a particular video game or munching a marketable energy bar. Never mind the extra zero on the end of Kobe's shoe contract after these Games. And so what if Usain Bolt's appearance fee now includes two cars and a small island for every 10 seconds of sprinting. Glenn Eller is going to be a homeowner.
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Vincent Hancock is a nervous person, who by his own admission simply cannot keep still. How does a jittery 19-year-old kid from Georgia keep cool under the intense pressure of an Olympic final when everyone around him is sweating bricks? That's where Daniel Vitchoff steps in. "I specialize in hypnosis," said Vitchoff, a performance coach and sports psychologist hired to work with the U.S. shooting team. "When you are shooting in the Olympics, it comes down to who can best perform under extreme pressure.
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A California High School graduate had a hand in bringing home the gold from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Dan Vitchoff trained two American Olympic athletes who won gold medals. Walton Glenn Eller, a member of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) made Olympic history when he won the gold medal in Men's Double Trap Shooting, and Vincent Hancock of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit won a Gold Medal in skeet shooting. Daniel S. Vitchoff, MS Ed, CHT and a 1978 graduate of California Area High School, is a mental training and performance coach.