Champions pay the price.
A beautiful insight into one of the most inspiring athletes out there.
Archived entries for Inspiration
Dopest video of the month.
The first double backflip on a wheelchair, landed by Aaron Fotheringham. After landing the double on his wheelchair, he named it the Bible Flip, because it takes a whole lot of faith to throw a double. Truly inspiring.
A one finger one arm pull up.
I have always been inspired by the beast that is Alain Robert.
If you do Parkour. You shall love.
New work, although he probably doesn’t see it like that, by Romain Laurent.
300 Miles in one go. Bosh.
I found running 100 miles in one go, and then doing 1000 miles of Parkour straight after was somewhat demanding. Seeing what Lisa Smith Batchen did in 2006 certainly brought back some of the pain and emotion I experienced. 300 in one go.
The Perfect 10.
Nadia Comaneci was only 13 year’s old when she became the worlds first perfect 10 gymnast in 1976. Here is the original footage that was later used in an Adidas commercial which is also below. Witness the fitness when she was just 11.
Philippe Petit.
You have either seen this film, or you haven’t.
You have either been very encouraged, or you haven’t.
OLYMPIANS ONBOARD
Busy days. I have recently got back from a brief trip to Nuremberg, Germany. Looking out of the plane on the way there I felt pretty gutted that the plane took only one and half hours to travel 1000 miles, and I could potential take up to a month and half to do 1300 miles to Paris in a few weeks. Also a perfect opportunity to test my altitude reading watch and GPS system that I will be using. Cor blimey nerd alert.
Once I was over there, a did performance and spent a lot of time with Usain Bolt’s training partner, Yohann Blake (100 Meters 9.93), Jessica Ennis (current World Pentathlon and Heptathlon Champion), and Phillips Idowu (Current World Triple Jump Champion). We all talked alot about the differences in training for what we all do, how bits of what they do can transfer into what I do, why we do it and how we do it. We also filmed a whole load of stuff that should make it’s way up on the site soon enough. It was surreal having all 3 of them saying what I do ( and all of us in the community do) is amazing, and seeing the shock on the faces as I moved about, mainly because these guys are the amazing ones. It was a boost which has given me a certain degreee of confidence before the run, knowing that a guy who runs 9.93 and gold medalists have my back.
All of them were eager to give me the best of luck and wanted to send some love to the camera, Jessica Ennis told me that she wishes me ‘ the best of luck, it’s going to be haaarrrd, but you will feel good once you have done it and you can go on a big holiday afterwards, good luck!’. Phillips Idowu said he wanted to wish me ‘..all the best, do that 1000 miles leaping, jumping, you know how we do! All the best bless, and catch you in Paris! And Yohann just asked If I could get Jessica’s number, and also wants me to hit him up with some teaching when he’s in London next.
I have added some links to videos so you can witness the fitness and see just good these guys are. For me it is back to 5.30 wake-ups, blood, sweat, and fears, blisters and aches before setting off very soon.
Phillips Idowu killing it in the sand pit.
A variety of clips of Jessica Ennis’s events.
Yohann Blake running 100m
“A bunch of dead muscles, thinking.”
Motor neurone disease has left the historian Tony Judt quadriplegic and, he tells Ed Pilkington, has forced him to think about what it really means to be human. The result is an astonishing series of essays and a determination to get young people thinking collectively again.
Please do visit The Guardian Online to watch the short video of Tony Judt expressing his opinion on what having Motor Neurone Disease is like:
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