This morning I was a test subject for an upcoming Parkour Workshop that my friend Shaun Wood is running. We spent two hours going through some different methods for jumping, rolling, balancing and clearing objects. In one section, we were “precision jumping” from one object to another, maybe 2.5m apart. This means you jump and...
A “top 5” practitioner is perhaps a service provider that is in the top 5% of their category. A trainer, a lawyer, a landscaper, a coach… With global connectivity and saturation in most fields effectively inevitable, a move towards the “top 5” seems to be a pre-requisite for long term success. Why are there so...
“Training age” is a term that relates to how long someone has been training in a particular sport or modality for. It could be weightlifting, endurance sports, boxing… Essentially, no matter how hard or fast you come in at your training later in life, it’s no match for training age – simply the years accumulated...
In his book The Effective Executive (1967), Peter Drucker writes of the similarities between an organisation (group, tribe, culture) and an organism. The surface area of the organism increases by the square of the radius, whereas the mass of the organism increases by the cube. This means as the organism gets bigger, more of its...
Today my Dad turns 70. Yesterday, my sister messaged me and suggested that we create a fun list of 70 things that we appreciated or were thankful for. Ways that he may have influenced our lives, ideas, thoughts. So, once I finished training I sat down wrote a few out without a pause. I thought...
In olympic lifting we often coach different “positions.” We “break the movement down.” This can be helpful to take something complex and make it seem digestible. Like a step-by-step guide. Ultimately though, the snatch and clean and jerk are movements of fluidity and power. There is no segmentation and ultimately there can be no hesitation....
In a group setting, one of the hardest things is to encourage open contribution and idea generation. The fear that can exist to present an idea, a belief or an observation can be significant. With the distribution available online now, this same difficulty is present for a lot of individuals when they want to express...
Long game change is exactly that.. Long game. Whether in the physical domain, or in your work, we have to see we aren’t just adding things on and “developing.” In many cases we are diving deep, completely rebuilding and re-wiring patterns, beliefs and habits. It is humbling, bumpy and seemingly slow. We might look to...
