How did you get into sport?

Send us Fan Mail Liam Robinson is the Rehabilitation Physiotherapist for the Melbourne Storm in the NRL, Australia. Liam is a UK trained physiotherapist who traveled to Australia with an ambition to work in sport and now has a converted role with one of the most well-regarded high performance environments in sport. One of the most fascinating parts of his story is how he got his first opportunity...

Send us Fan Mail Karl Dodd is the Head Coach of Brisbane City FC who compete in the National Premier League competition in Queensland, Australia. Doddsy is the definition of a triple threat in football having been a professional player, transitioned into a Head S&C coach as part of a high performance team and is now an internationally acclaimed Head Coach. If that wasn’t enough he has also wor...

Send us Fan Mail Brody Sams is a professional Goal Keeping (GK) coach who currently lives and works in New Jersey, USA. He is currently GK coach for Gotham FC who compete in one of the leading women’s football leagues in the world NWSL. Although having had many conversations with Brody over the years, Brody surprises me with his vulnerability, transparency and philosophical view of his journey in...

Send us Fan Mail Sean Lane is a football (soccer) coach who’s had success as a head coach across 3 different continents.  Laney shares his journey from staring as a professional player at the age of 16 years old, to transitioning into a financially successful cooperate career to giving it all up to pursue his passion for coaching while still having to support 5 kids, a mortgage and starting from t...

Send us Fan Mail Over the last 15 years I have been lucky enough to work with various sporting organisations and clubs both here in Australia and overseas. Although I’ve had the pleasure of working with different people, being exposed to a diversity of approaches and experienced working in multiple high performing environments, at the same time it is also a challenging time as moving into new orga...

Send us Fan Mail Matt Ham is the Head S&C Coach for the Townsville Blackhawks who compete in the second division of Rugby League in Australia. What is most fascinating about Matt’s story is that he has no prior experience working with rugby players but was still able to acquire a role in a sport where S&C jobs are often only given to those with a background in rugby. Sit back and listen to...

Send us Fan Mail I recently returned from Europe having spent a week and a half away with the Australians Men’s U17s National Football Team. The camp involved a heavy schedule of daily training and playing 3 friendly matches against Czech Republic, Morocco and Uzbekistan.   In this episode I take a look back at our recent tour and give you sneak peak of what is involved on a day-to-day basis while...

Send us Fan Mail Myles Burfield is a sports physiotherapist who currently owns and operates a sports injury clinic in addition to clinical supervising at ACU. Myles was part of the successful Australian Kayak team who won the Bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and he talks about what’s involved in being a sports physiotherapist at an Olympic games. Not only has he been one of few who have atten...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a little different than the usual solo episodes I do every other week. This is an interview I did on the “The Mind Your Body Show”, hosted by Jacob Andrea.  I thought I would share this interview I did with Jacob as it provides a little background of what got me into high performance sport as well as the lessons and funny stories that occurred along the way.  Jacob...

Send us Fan Mail Aaron Alsop is the Executive Director of High Performance for the Solomon Island National Institute of Sport (SINIS). Aaron's role requires him to manage over 75 staff members who service over 150 coaches and over 1200 scholarship athletes in a multi purpose high performance facility that rivals most facilities in Australia. Aaron talks about his journey from growing up in To...

Send us Fan Mail It is not uncommon that as you progress through your high performance sport journey that opportunities will arise and in turn tough decision will have to be made in deciding whether you want to commit these opportunities.  In an industry where job opportunities, net alone job offers can be scarce the pressure of making sure you make the right decision for your career can often be...

Send us Fan Mail Tracy is an Australian trained physiotherapist who has spent most of career working overseas initially with professional female golfers in the LPGA. In this episode Tracy shares her journey into professional sport where she moved from Perth to Europe to work in professional golf and then randomly decided to run away and join the circus where she spent an 11-year stint traveling al...

Send us Fan Mail The field of high performance sport is one of the most competitive industries in the world. Universities and Associations are pumping out countless numbers of Physiotherapists, Sport Scientists, S&C coaches, Dieticians etc. and it only takes doing a little simple math to work out there are hundreds of professionals being churned out each year. To make it even more competitive...

Send us Fan Mail David Wellington (Wello) is the Head Physiotherapist for the ACT Brumbies who compete in the premier Rugby competition in Australia, Super Rugby. Wello has been a close friend of mine in the industry and I had the luxury of graduating with him as part of our Undergraduate Physiotherapy degree. Since then, Wello has gone on to forge a career in sport with such sports as Baseball, C...