Resilience in Motion
Is your own training defeating you?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Growing up in the martial arts, I encountered so many teachers who were broken. Worn out joints, damaged tissue, traumatic…
Is your own training defeating you?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Growing up in the martial arts, I encountered so many teachers who were broken. Worn out joints, damaged tissue, traumatic…
One of the topics we focus on in our education programme, ADAPT, is the importance of analysing and developing your own philosophy of coaching. Coaching…
CUE-JUTSU #6 When it comes to cueing for coaching movement you've got to get it right. And there's a lot to get right! I'll…
It's a very cool title isn't it: Extreme Sports! Often seen with a dropped 'E' so you get some form of X-treme or X-awesome or…
What I have learned over the years of training is that no matter how you evolve your body it really means very little unless you…
Fear is an edifice we build within ourselves. Unless you’re inhuman, you know fear. It’s natural. It’s healthy. It’s a survival mechanism designed to warn…
The deconstruction of movement in the fitness industry is rife. I've encountered so many 'experts' and methods that reduce what are the most natural and…
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people. Maya Angelou I was raised on tales…
Here’s a truth I want everyone who doubts their physical and mental potential to keep at the forefront of their mind: beneath the shell of…
Several years ago the world of running experienced a seismic shockwave that was the emergence of barefoot running, which has gone on to spawn the…
Athletes call it ‘the zone’; Maslow named it ‘peak experience’; the martial arts of Japan dubbed it mushin or ‘no-mind’; most recently it has been…
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Have you noticed how more and more of your life is managed, and managed by someone or something else? Managed spaces, managed social networks, managed…