Sound Mind Sound Performance

13/03/2026

I’ve been experimenting with making music for sports movement and skill practice for about a year now. While doing this I started wondering about the opposite of rhythm training — what happens when the beat is unpredictable and athletes must monitor for irregular cues while performing a skill. It led me to explore a hypothesis around automaticity, distraction, and temporal monitoring in sport practice. I wrote a short newsletter sharing the thinking and research behind it. Link below.

Over the past year I have been experimenting with something slightly unusual, composing music specifically for sports movement and skill training. Most rhythm used in training environments is predictable.

10/03/2026

Elite performance is not built on motivation.
It is built on identity.

When behaviour aligns with , consistency follows.
When identity is rooted in , pressure sharpens rather than breaks you.

This short reflection explores the mindset behind durable performance in , , and high-stakes environments.

Read the full piece below.

You're standing in a world that measures people by output, speed, achievement, and noise. But elite performance, the kind that endures, isn't built by, talent, emotion, or bursts of motivation.

08/01/2026

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08/01/2026

New 2026 for Athletes!

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Includes a place to put your self-talk and to-do list.

27/12/2025

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The Neuro-Optimal Synchronization Concept is a revolutionary pre-training approach that prioritizes the brain before the body, using advanced neurological methods to synchronize brainwave activity, balance hemispheric communication, and prime the nervous system for elite performance. This short but....

15/12/2025

28/11/2025

Grateful. Feeling blessed to have spent nearly 2 weeks with this crew. My heart is full.

25/11/2025

Just spent time overseas with a young person in Bali working on a turtle conservation project. Doing this trip, i’m reminded how powerful volunteering and meeting new cultures can be for growth, resilience and perspective. These experiences build character in ways training alone can’t. They teach responsibility, adaptability, emotional awareness, and connection to something bigger than sport or performance.

If you’re a coach or club and think someone in your team would benefit, reach out.

Creating stronger humans creates stronger athletes.

During my recent work overseas in Bali, supporting a young person through a turtle conservation program, I was reminded of something that high-performance sport often overlooks: Character is not built in controlled environments. It is forged when athletes face something unfamiliar, meaningful, and b

15/11/2025

If you're training the body without training the nervous system, you're missing the most important component. RPR® will change the way you view the body, it will explain almost every non-contact injury you've ever seen or had.

RPR® Level 1 introduces you to a new way of looking at the body. We'll break down the science behind our system of breath and bodywork and give you the tools to change your life, and that of your athletes.

03/11/2025

Athletes & the Planet 🌍

Great athletes don’t just train their bodies — they train their awareness.
This cracked, sun-bleached court on a turtle conservation ground in Nusa Penida reminds me: performance and planet are intertwined.

How we move, how we consume, how we care — it all echoes.
To protect what sustains us is the ultimate act of endurance.

Every athlete should know: sustainability is strength.

28/10/2025

New!

Pressure doesn’t just test an athlete’s skill: it tests their nervous system.

New research by Carson, Robazza & Collins shows that performance isn’t just about “letting it happen.” It’s about knowing how to make it happen — consciously, calmly, and safely.

For athletes with ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), this means retraining the body to stay regulated under stress. Trauma-informed coaching now meets performance science — where safety becomes skill and control becomes confidence.

When athletes enter the arena, they bring more than physical skill — they bring memory. Not just motor memory, but emotional memory: the stored experiences of safety or threat that shape how their body performs under pressure.

27/10/2025

For the technical experts peer reviewed technique. Segment-interaction in sprint start: Analysis of 3D angular velocity and kinetic energy in elite sprinters. You can purchase your copy here.

The aim of the present study was to measure during a sprint start the joint angular velocity and the kinetic energy of the different segments in elite…