Horizontal Forces  and hamstring injury risk.

On many occasions we have discussed sprinting and hamstring injuries in this blog. I know its definitely an interest area of ours, so I hope you will indulge us in discussing further studies that are opening up ideas in the area. These include factors that may be...

First Principles Thinking: Part 3 

Find The Gap. It may seem like a simple process but clearly defining the current capability and the desired capability is something that is often not done well. There are a multitude of reasons for this which we will briefly discuss, but they tend to fall into a few...

First Principles Thinking – Part 2 

Understand the rules of the system In the last blog we discussed determining the type of system that you are dealing with when approaching a decision, problem or situation. If you understand the type of system that you are dealing with you can readily apply some rules...

First Principles Thinking: Part 1 

In a team meeting yesterday we got onto the topic of decision making. And in particular making decisions when in a novel situation. The thing that is obvious is that as decision makers, humans look for previous examples to go from to guide us. It seems like it would...