Coach Ben Big Beach Adventure New (ORIGINAL ›)

Athletes discard their $200 trainers. Ben believes modern shoes have made feet lazy. The first quarter-hour is tactile: walking lunges in the wash, toe-grabbing drills in the soft sand, and balance work on driftwood. “You have 26 bones in your foot,” Ben shouts. “Let them work!”

“I had a team that could run a perfect pick-and-roll but couldn’t run barefoot on sand for three minutes without cramping,” Ben told me during an exclusive interview at his new headquarters—a renovated lifeguard station on the south end of Crescent Cove. “That was my lightbulb moment. The beach isn’t a vacation. It’s the ultimate training ground.” coach ben big beach adventure new

It’s new because it rejects the sterile gym for the organic chaos of the shoreline. It’s new because it replaces the stopwatch with the rhythm of the waves. It’s new because it welcomes the elite and the awkward, the fit and the fragile, onto the same stretch of sand. Athletes discard their $200 trainers