Barak Swarttz

It's not going to help, like you said, a lot of the people here on this side of the world at least get a little bit more of an understanding of what other parts of the world are and how they work.

For example, the Middle East or for example, the East, just the code of conduct and Western values compared to what's going on in that part of the world.

It's just when you travel, you then begin to meet people and understand a little bit more.

So I'm, I would say, just like you said, like basketball, it could be any professional sport.

It could be football.

It could be soccer.

Like that's how these guys connect.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, when I came to Israel in 2019, after I graduated college, I landed a really cool internship that I sort of opened up for myself at Maccabi Tel Aviv, which is like the premier club in Israel.

And that year, 2019, we had Danny Avdia, Omri Caspi, Amar Stoudemire, Quincy Acey, Scotty Wilberkin, Tyler Dorsey, Elijah Bryant, several, excuse me, Elijah has a ring.

So I got exposed to some really high caliber players.

Denny, of course, is, in my opinion, a future all-star right now in the NBA.

So I started training them when I was with Maccabi, and then I ended up landing a head strength and conditioning coach job at Ness Yona, which is another first division team in Israel.

Wow.

In those four years, I was around a lot of guys who had been in the league before, guys who played with Chris Paul, guys who played with Kobe, Tariq Black.

Um, and then in the off season for the WNBA players here, they go overseas to earn a higher salary and just grow their stock.

And Israel is a nice platform for them.

So I would start training, um, Benaj Jelani and Tiffany Mitchell and like some like really high caliber WNBA players.

So I was this liaison between the States and Israel, just like training hoopers.