After kindly being asked to contribute to the two-year anniversary celebrations for Crossfit Nickel City’s incarnation, I was delighted to be warmly welcomed by a group of enthusiastic amateur athletes. The topic of the day was recovery and I presented a short introduction...

Since the early 2000s, I have made a significant effort when traveling the globe to visit sporting organisations, teams or athlete groups around the world. The benefit of this was first relayed to me by, the then Leeds United head physiotherapist, Dave Hancock, who had...

Data. Information. It’s the new black, the game-changer, the must have for every organisation in the sports industry. It’s everywhere. It’s available for the front office to optimise the player recruitment process, the fan to enhance participation in the game experience...

Following a recommendation (thanks Andrew Small), a few weeks ago, I registered for the CES Unveiled New York, which is hosted in the Big Apple a couple of months before the International CES event takes place in Las Vegas. For the uninitiated, the International CES is...

Earlier in the year, I met with a friend, former lacrosse coach & one-time housemate of mine, for supper near his new work place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. John (Payne) is a cerebral fellow & has flirted with several careers in his professional life, including...

Pre-season tours normally entail a substantial amount of traveling, which if you don’t pack a healthy stash of journal articles, can turn into an opportunity wasted. So far this pre-season, I have flown from Newark, via Edinburgh, to Istanbul; from Istanbul to Munich; from...

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...

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...