Over the last few days, I have been on a summer tour of research, personal development, fact-finding & introduction. It’s been an incredibly interesting & entertaining experience, meeting many new people & catching up with old friends.
The tour was topped & tailed by stays...
When I am in Princeton, I tend to read the New York Times. Not through any political persuasion or affiliation to a specific columnist, rather than that’s what my uncle, Fred, has on the breakfast table every morning.
I’ve noticed that over recent months, the Times has...
Milan has been a great tutor this week. Every day, I have had a visit, or a meeting, or a trial session organised & every day I have been able to add something new to my performance philosophy or decide that something I thought might fit, really doesn’t.
The visit to the...
I arrived in Rome, late on Wednesday evening, with a busy few days of research, meetings & visits ahead of me. I really love Rome on so many levels, from the architecture, to the food, to the Roman's love of sports & the wide variety of people it attracts to work here...
Following on from my meetings in Paris, I flew down to Barcelona & switching sports to soccer, spent a day watching training at FC Barcelona. Accompanied by both a player (Brett Crompton) & a coach (Mikel Touzón) I worked with in Thailand, we spent time with the U19 (recently...
After arriving in Paris on Saturday, I have been having a series of meetings with the CEO of an embryonic motor-racing team called QI-Racing. Based in France, QI-Racing aims to enter some Formula Renault’s Europe Cup & GP 2 races next year, with the long-term plan to enter a...
It's a conversation topic that often rears its head at this time of year..."Would Team X from 20 whatever years ago have beaten Team Y from today?", "Would the best player from yesteryear be able to hold their own in the current sporting climate?" or have the athletes of today...
So after what seemed like a small lifetime to some (American) football fans, several of the teams are back into off-season training.
There are all sorts of rules & regulations governing training at this time of year, thanks in the main to the NFL’s Collective Bargaining...
Since arriving in Princeton to spend some time with my family here, I have been able to step back from the clinical aspect of my sports physiotherapy skill set to research & observe some of the factors that more indirectly influence the approach to the other aspects of my work...
Whilst there was a rather lengthy gap between the posts regarding the range of movement components of shoulder impingement rehabilitation & those aiming to address the first element of the lack of muscle performance, I am making sure I waste no time continuing on to the...
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