ADS 0019: Fiona Mather – What we can learn from the horse racing industry My guest of the show today is Fiona Mather (@FifiMather). Fiona leads the physiotherapy and rehabilitation team at High Performance Sport New Zealand in Auckland, where she works with elite athletes across many different codes. Scottish born, Fiona was head of physiotherapy at SportScotland Institute of Sport before coming out to New Zealand not so long ago with her Kiwi husband and her two boys. But here’s the interesting thing. What now involves the rehabilitation of Olympic athletes, started out with foals and stallio ..read more

ADS 0044: Tania Cassidy, PhD –Sport Pedagogy, Remaining Curious, and Staying in Touch with Your Community My guest on the show today believes that sports coaching is as much about good teaching and relationships as it is about expertise in sport skills and tactics. Her name is Dr Tania Cassidy and she’s an Associate Professor in Sport Pedagogy at the University of Otago, where she is both a teacher and a researcher. Tania’s PhD, which she completed at Deakin University in South Australia, examined the pedagogical process in teacher education. Then, in 2004 Tania wrote a book called; Understan ..read more

“Balance is key. You need time to regenerate, and reflect. And part of balance is about having fun. Are you still enjoying it when you turn up to training? Are you still excited to play?”    This conversation is with César Meylan (@MeylanCesar), Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Canadian Sports Institute Pacific, and Head of Sports Science for Woman’s Football in Canada. César has been on staff for the Canadian Woman’s team since 2011, helping guide them to bronze medal results at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. César graduated from AUT University in 2013 with a PhD in Strength and Condi ..read more

“What I’ve learnt as a parent, and as a coach, is that my role is to teach them to work it out. Because I’m not hitting, or out there in the field, they have to work it out themselves” This conversation is with World Hall of Fame Softball player Eddie Kohlhase. Eddie joined the New Zealand National Softball team in 1983 and went on to an 11-year career, which included a World Championship title in 1984. In 2013, he became the only player is history to coach the team to the same feat. Professionally, Eddie has had a highly successful career with New Zealand customs, and now works as a senior hi ..read more

“You learn a lot more from the teacher you love than the teacher you’re scared of.” – Nathan Wallis Nathan Wallis is a gifted educator of brain development and internationally recognised speaker. Formally a lecturer at the University of Canterbury and presenter for Brainwave, Nathan has a brilliant knack for facilitating the application of neuroscience to practice. In this conversation, we delve into Nathan’s complex childhood, fatherhood, play, and why it’s the superpower for human evolution, lessons from neuroscience for enhancing sports performance, and much more. Thanks for tuning in. I ..read more

My guest on the show today is Dr. Jeff Moreno, a true movement enthusiast and one of the most interesting guys I know when it comes to developing it. After leaving school at the age of 16, Jeff studied Kinesiology went on to receive a Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Southern California. Jeff now resides Santa Cruz, California, where is the director of Precision Sports Performance Running specializing in the assessment and rehabilitation of orthopedic injuries, and has worked with U.S., Canadian, and Chinese running champions as well as Olympic and World Championship medalists ..read more

Todd Beane (@_ToddBeane) is Founder of TOVO, an educational approach dedicated to improving the cognition, competence and character of young footballers. TOVO runs a live-in training Academy in Barcelona, Spain, as well as offering learning opportunities around the globe . Todd graduated from Dartmouth College in 1986 with a bachelors in English Literature, and when on to earn a Master’s degree in Education and a Secondary Teaching Credential from Stanford University. Following his formal education, Todd worked with Johan Cruyff for 14 years to create the Cruyff Institute for Sport Studies and ..read more

ADS 0028: Hugo Inglis – The Ultimate Competitor    Playing sport on the world stage requires a huge work ethic, incredible skill, and a dogged determination to never give up in the heat of competition. My guest on the show today has these qualities in spades. His name is Hugo Inglis, he’s 25 years old, and with 186 international caps he’s one of the linchpins for the New Zealand Black Sticks Hockey team. Today on the show, Hugo shares his love of sport for as long as he can remember and how it manifested growing up in the backyards of Dunedin in New Zealand. He then describes the significant r ..read more

My guest on the show today is Dr Harry Bowles (@HBowles124), a lecturer in Physical Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales. Harry is a versatile scholar with a broad range of teaching and research interests, including identity, transition in  sport and over the life-course, and sport and exercise culture. The past 8 years of Harry’s life have been tired researching and writing his first book: “Days in the Dirt” University Cricket and Emerging Adulthood. It’s a fascinating read about the lives of a group of male, university-based academy cricketers transitioning into (and away fr ..read more

My guest on the show today believes that learning is complex, and that to be your best, you need to explore, protect and embrace such complexity. His name is Mark Upton (@uppy01), and he’s been playing, studying and coaching sport, and sports people, all of his life. Mark started his coaching journey with young tennis and Aussie rules football players, while at the same time pursuing a sport science degree at the University of South Australia. He later served 12 years at the Adelaide Football Club in a role that blended both coaching and science. Now, Mark describes himself as a learning dynam ..read more