John Brenkus: Creator of Sports Science

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

“Successful people are really stubborn. They won’t take no for an answer. They keep going, and going, and going.” Want to know the science -- check that, odds -- around Ben Roethlisberger's pass that landed in the hands of Santonio Holmes with only seconds left in Super Bowl XLIII? How about the torque and bend that occurs after Alex Ovechkin hits a slap shot? Sports Science will tell you why after making contact with the ball, Giancarlo Stanton’s follow through doesn’t actually matter. I always wanted to know what it felt like to get tackled by Ray Lewis. Sports Science has it covered. John Brenkus is a producer, director, and television personality. He co-founded BASE productions, which specializes in creating television programming for channels such as ESPN, National Geographic, and Spike TV. He’s the creator of Sports Science, and currently hosts his own podcast, The Brink of Midnight. Here’s more about my fascinating friend. He attended UVA and created his own major, Film Rhetoric Communication Studies, graduating with honors in 3 years. When it all began, he told his mother he wanted to do two of the hardest things he could think of: write a novel and make a movie. He did both. He tell us that sports and science are his "two greatest passions." Suiting Up Podcast is a show that explores the psychology, playbook of tools, and strategies of the most influential people in sports, entertainment and business. My job is to navigate the conversation. The guests bring the originality.

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0:00.0	If you think about basement of Vienna, Virginia, right, having no entertainment experience at all to being fortunate enough to build a franchise like sports science
0:15.1	and then having the sports world interested in what you have to say.
0:20.0	That's like a crazy journey where that wasn't even the intent from where we originally started.
0:26.8	Welcome to Student Up Podcast. I'm your host Paul Rabel,
0:29.5	for a lacrosse player in New York and with Team USA. I'm also an entrepreneur and investor and on my show I sit
0:34.8	down with world-class guests who are high performers and thought innovators to explore their
0:39.1	psychology of decision-making, their playbook of tools and Strategies related to Sports, Entertainment, and
0:44.1	Business. And today's guest is John Brankis. He is the Sports Science guy. The man
0:50.0	with his brother who started a production company in their basement,
0:53.0	built several properties from scratch,
0:55.0	and license them to ESPN, FYI, a badass move,
0:58.0	and have brought the science, data, and analytics to life in athletes and sports. Sports science showcases how the
1:06.0	likes of Ben Rothersberger dropped that dime into San Antonio Holmes's hands
1:09.8	in the Super Bowl final Drive against the Arizona Cardinals
1:13.0	to the Ben and Novi stick on a slap shot,
1:15.0	to Waije on Carlos Stanton's follow-through
1:18.0	after making contact with the bat and ball actually doesn't matter
1:21.0	to what it feels like to get tackled by Ray Lewis. That kind of stuff.
1:24.0	If you haven't seen the show I suggest you do, they've won six Emmys.
1:28.0	JB's college major was rhetoric communication studies, the theory of the argument. he's very good at that and at
1:35.1	media interviewing being interviewed and the whole nine really I was outmatched
1:40.2	but very humbled to host him.
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