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Brian Derby’s Love Of The Islands The Key To O-Line Camp Success

Brian Derby’s Love Of The Islands The Key To O-Line Camp Success

He is my friend.  He is my brother.  I would give my life for him and he me.  And we knew it from the first day we met.  We told each other of our love for the game and for the boys coming up..working…trying to make it.  Me Norwegian and a mix.  He the same.  He is dark and I am light.  We don’t care.  We are brothers in the ultimate game of pay back and pay it forward.

Sometimes I think we want to see which one of us can win by giving the most.

How can you rate men that give it all and ask for nothing back?  Few of us do it but many must.

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On a recent Coaching trip to Japan where is a regular coaching College Football, Brian Derby stopped in Hiroshima, Japan to pay respects to a family he loves. We chose this picture because this giving man is always giving – on and off the field.

I give so many hours to the boys of the high schools all over the islands and the mainland and ask nothing. He gives 20 plus weekends a year and countless hours on the phones talking to coaches and others about the Derby Campers.  Kids who commit themselves to this Master of the O’Line will become the best.  My time with him over the past decade has proven this.  Camps in Oregon, Alaska, Virginia, Utah, Hawaii and beyond that Brian has run have produced hundreds of success stories and college prospects.

No one, and I mean no one, in my 25 years of coaching and working with the best can stand in the light Derby does.

His work. all for free, is unmatched.  His commitment to the movements and inches involved in the sweet science of the offensive line is also unmatched.

Like watching Bruce Lee teach the martial arts watching Derby work is pure art.  The science part is there- leverage and angles and power punches and counter moves are all there too. But in the end it is the mental aspects he teaches that make the difference.  Students with enough work become the best and can rarely be beaten.

For those of you Offensive Linemen in Hawaii count yourself lucky to be able to access someone like Brian and to not have to pay.  This former UH star and Fire Captain is the best person and the best Coach I have ever come across and I want to thank him for all the years he has given to the athletes and to perfecting the offensive line positions into a science.

It really is a game of inches and split seconds and Brian’s mind is like a high speed camera shutter.  He has every move a defensive linemen will make worked out and every counter move to it in his teaching arsenal.

I have seen Derby Campers (as we call them) at every major camp and showcase on the mainland.  Anymore when I see a Hawaiian dominating at offensive line I don’t even ask- I already know- they are one of his guys.

“There is a sound I am listening for,” Derby said at one Oregon Camp. ” When you execute it you will know it too.”

Step, Step, Punch- Thump! Again.  More and more reps.  Perfection is never there but it is ever so close and when we heard it we all stopped and smiled.  The Master has made his point.

Brian I will never be able to tell you thank you enough or the right ways.  You have set my bar higher then I thought it could be and yet we continue to rise up even as time and tides try and erase us from the earth.   Let’s set the example again and again and let’s hope others follow!

This game is not about money but about love and accomplishment!  Pay it forward boys.  We won’t live forever and I know many of you that learned from guys like Brian will continue the work.

Brian Derby sees the Islands that are his home as the greatest thing in life and in the world.  He loves these Islands and the boys so much that he gives it all back to them ten Fold.  In fact he gives this same commitment and love to all he encounters on the mainland and world wide.  Places like Japan where he is a household name in many of the highest echelons of football.

This is one of the greatest Pay It Forwards of all time folks.

Believe me when I say this is a man laying down huge footprints.  I can only hope to measure up at the end of my run.   He is someone to model ourselves as teachers and parents after.

#808football #TheGrindIsReal #DerbyCampForever #HeDefinedTheGrind

Brian Derby’s Love Of The Islands The Key To O-Line Camp Success

To be considered fro Derby Camp Hawaii or to have Brian run a camp or clinic for your team or school contact Brian at DerbyCamp.com.

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