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 Multidisciplinary sports coaching, performance & education experience,

merged with applied, interdisciplinary sports science support.

I have over 40 years of professional experience in multiple sports; as a trainer/educator of sports coaches, over 10 years full time training & assessing physical education teachers as well as being a lecturer, coach educator, high performance coach, former head of physical education and outdoor education, plus ski instructor, trainer, educator and tutor for ski instructors in 3 International systems. Football coach to national  student champions, athletics coach across many events and  levels up to world championships, a ski coach to multiple national age group champion and mentor to other coaches. With specialisms in performance analysis, technique analysis and specific conditioning alongside pedagogy, I have also been an invited consultant on sports-specific skill based training programmes; for Premiership footballers & clubs, American football National champions, US Collegiate women`s basketball, Singapore Netball as well as International Athletes (from 100m Olympians to World Record breakers in Ultra-marathon, coaching start technique for Olympic swimmers (including a future Gold medalist) and supporting Alpine Ski Olympians. 

I have an extensive and quite unique background for evidence-based coaching as a now retired Head of School of Sport & Coaching Sciences and Head of a number of University Sport and Exercise Sciences departments; a Principal Lecturer in coaching sciences, Senior Lecturer in physical education, exercise physiology and biomechanics, a teacher trainer, and as a professor of biomechanics and physical education  in the United States (developing, authoring, teaching and quality assuring over 20 completely new sports related degree curricula for applied sports science and sports teaching & coaching). I have also worked extensively with sports physiotherapists, athletic trainers, sports therapists, strength & conditioning coaches, and high performance coaches across a wide variety of sports; for evidence-based skill development, fitness, injury prevention, and reconditioning. 

So far I have taught and coached in 10 countries (including in India developing coaches in multiple sports), presented at over 30 International Conferences, presented practical workshops for 3 National Instructor Associations and authored over 40 articles on sports coaching, as well as previous handbooks on coaching athletics and teaching sports in physical education. I contributed biomechanics, motor control and performance analysis chapters to a number of books and national coach education manuals. After additionally researching knee and back problems, I presented on knee and back injuries at the World Science and Ski Congress in 2010 and 2013, and at the 2011 Interski Congress. In November 2012 I published `Fitness and Motor Control for Skiers their Knees and Backs` and subsequently authored the applied sports science books `Performance Analysis in Skiing`, `Running Faster`, `Ski Conditioning for Injury Prevention and Performance`, `Your Knees and Exercise - bulletproof knees` and most recently `Fix your Low Back Ache - bulletproof back`.

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