How to cool down in the heat

I was coaching at my friend Dan's PCSA Soccer Camp this week and the players were really hot from our coastal heat at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo (75 degrees). I know, Tulareans and and Las Vegas Lounge Lizards would call us wimps, but anything above 72 degrees here is a heat wave.

I was telling the lads and lasses, and none of this is scientific, but just stuff i've learned while being a footballer and playing in and exerting myself in hot weather:

1. Your brain is your thermostat. If your head is hot, your brain will tell you that your body is hot. So put really cold water on your face and hair and it will cool you down quite quickly....within minutes.

2. The part of your neck where you can feel your pulse, if you put ice there or soemthing cool, then that acts as a radiator for ourt blood system. It cools the blood down that goes to your head and cools you down quickly.

Also I explained to the players that the water they drink now cannot be used until three days from now. Crazy. I didn't know this until last week. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is damaging to the body.

On a lighter note, the U.S. women's voleyball partners kicks booty. In your face, Belgium.