For athletes at all levels of competition, preventing injury is all about technique.

“It’s interesting all the things that can be correct with it and how much it can help, said 14-year-old student athlete Andrew Pryhuber.

Moving from one sporting season to another, Pryhuber hasn’t had time to focus on technique.

“I’ve done some of the exercises, but I’ve never really concentrated soi much on the form,” Pryhuber said. “That really hasn’t been taught to me before.”

The sports medicine department at the University of Rochester is teaching young athletes skills designed to prevent injury and improve performance.

John Bernfield says athletics is all about controlling momentum. This summer program trains the muscles to absorb the strain of competition,

“The really really top athletes know if you train the weaknesses and make them a strength, then you’re better all around. And that may be the key to it,” Bernfield said.

Bernfield says these high school athletes can take these skills into the next season, no matter what the sport.

“You make it so you’re less fatigued in the fourth quarter,” Bernfield said. “You’re less likely to get injured. And again, you’re going to compete much better.”

Pryhuber just homes what he learns through this program will keep him off the sidelines this fall.

“I hope it will help so I don’t have any kind of injury during the season, ‘cause that would just destroy my whole season,” said Pryhuber.