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A Movement Manifesto
3rd January 2025
A personal movement manifesto for all Humans have evolved through adaptation to moving in their environments. I aim to help people learn to enjoy movement and make it part of their physical and mental selves. Physical activity is often reduced to a number: “10,000 steps”, “walk a mile a day,” or ’100 reps’. By focussing […]
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Welcome to the Excelsior blog. It is a mix of current research and thoughts on Athlete and Coach Development, Strength and Conditioning and personal reflections.

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James Marshall

  1. Time for reflection: GAIN 2011 in Houston Texas

    As most of you know, I was away last week in Houston Texas with Vern Gambetta et al as part of the GAIN 2011 apprentorship course.  The 5 day course involved 14 hour days, 34C heat and humidty, some lively debate, great people and even better food.

    It is a bit too soon still to properly analyse what I have learnt. I will be writing some posts next month after I have had time to reflect upon the while experience.

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  2. South West Talent project reaches National Lottery Semi Finals

    One of our major clients has reached the semi finals of the National Lottery awards.

    The SWT athletes and the work surrounding it has been a very rewarding, productive and successful project over the last 2 years.

    This has been recognised by the National Lottery.

    For more information and a chance to vote, please see here.

     

     

     

     

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  3. Are sports coaches restricting the thinking of their female athletes?

    Are sports coaches restricting the thinking of their female athletes?

    From observing young female athletes doing certain practices, I would say yes.

    One warm up I have done is to get 2 athletes to shadow each other mimicking movement patterns. That is all the advice and instruction I give, then say go. Doing this with 13 year olds and you see a massive variety of different things being done. It looks like free play and creativity.

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  4. Coach Development Workshop: John Brierley

    Last week I was lucky enough to attend a workshop at Exeter University led by John Brierley . This was part of the Transformational Coaching programme organised by Paula Jardine and led by Wayne Roberts.

    John has a massive range of experience, including being the Team Leader of Athletics at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, and fitness consultant to Birmingham City FC for 4 years.

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  5. How to get more agile- use your head

    barry sanders agility

    I used this theme when presenting at the Active Devon Coaching Conference last weekend.

    Do you do endless footwork drills in order to get more agile? Bruce Lee called this organised despair- it looks really productive and efficient, but it has very little transference to open, fast moving situations in a game.

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