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#padel #trainer #skills Top Padeltrainer! Een paar lessen bij Scott Goossens brengt je verder naar jouw doel, welke dat ook mag zijn in jouw padelskills

I don't consider myself a Linkedin-posting person. I guess it's because as a team manager, my achievements are not so tangible, so why post? And who wants to read it anyway? Well, this 👇 achievement is quite tangible, so I can work with that. I always wanted to be an athlete or an artist. I just never thought that could be possible, so I became an engineer (which I love by the way, I love my job at Goudappel). It feels strange to say this, but I guess I am both athlete and artist now. My young self would have never believed this, getting graded a 6 (C) for gymnastics, because I was simply too scared to put myself out there (and that is a different story). Being at Urban Future. #UB24. conference this week I made a lot of realizations. One is that facts (engineering) speak to the mind 🧠, but art speaks to the heart 💜. And for change we need to win over a lot of hearts. Another one is the discussion between Rutger Bregman and Claire Elizabeth Williams (she/her). it’s about knowing and owning your superpower and staying true to your values. That is where you make most impact on yourself and the world. 🦸♀️ My superpowers are my optimism, playfulness, my open mind and my ability/need to connect to others. I don’t see risks, I see chances and I see them everywhere. I used those to become an athlete. I knew I didn’t qualify yet when I departed on this journey, but I did manage to embark, taking small, doable steps (again, a whole story in itself). I also use those in my role as team manager: to help people understand and embrace themselves, despite the expectations deliberately or subconsciously put on them. 💎My values* are adventure, taking care of the world, with the people around me, my community**. 🤷 A question for me is now: how do I combine all this? How do I combine being an athlete, an artist, an engineer and a team manager in my day to day life, doing what I’m so passionate about: taking the best care of the world? Reaching the brain, and the heart. I don’t know yet, and that is fine. I don’t need a clear goal or path. I have faith that staying true to myself is enough, while putting my superpowers out there, staying connected with my community. I’m very curious about the adventures it will take me on. And I added people to my community this week. Special thnx to Victoria Yavorskaya and Sigurd Dingsøyr for the moments we shared. Please share your thought if you have any, I would love to read them. * I know, values are usually depicted just a little differently. But I find this works for me, so I stick with it for now. It's up for debate though. **my family and friends, my Goudappel colleagues, my fellow COC Amsterdam volunteers, the people I do art and sports with.

Lies, damn lies, statistics and data visualisation :-)

In one word: F A N T A S T I C

Great to realise how development in time goes on.

Trendwatching: back to fundamentals for clothing brands. AGU, post rescue from its bankruptcy path, is ending its collaboration with Visma Lease A Bike to rebalance itself. The brands' portfolio has a huge amount of mobility products like raincoats, bike bags and such, so I would figure this is a sustainable move. A very high proportion of dutch bike shops stock these product lines. And nobody cares if a bag is last years colour.... but last years team clothing? Huge devaluation. Meanwhile, few city bike owners (there are over 18 M city bikes in NL to be equipped) buy a bag or raincoat because pro cyclists wear that company's sporting gear... It is stated that the collaboration now longer suits AGU's new situation or strategy moving forward... even if this team is today's holy grail of road image. Time has told that sporting clothing is an exceptionally tough market to be in right now.

For the series "Blood, Sweat, and Training" by Maarten Delvaux and Wim Vos for the newspaper 'Sportwereld', I gave an interview about the construction and philosophy of the Vlaamse Zwemfederatie 🏊 / Sport Vlaanderen training pool that was built in 2014-2015. The pool includes technology that, thanks to an investment by the Vlaamse Zwemfederatie 🏊 , allows for a complete analysis of swimmers. From the initial plans, the following philosophy was developed: Don't invest all your project money in hardware but also in people. I see different centers investing large budgets in hardware but then not hiring anyone to run it daily. Everything depends on someone who can operate, maintain, and improve the system. Be prepared for the future. In Antwerp, we are future-proof with many extra, as yet unused cables and expansion possibilities. All hardware must be modular and replaceable. Something will inevitably break; make it replaceable and ensure there is a backup. Keep it (not) simple. The camera system in Antwerp can be used independently by coaches but is also sophisticated enough for movement scientists to analyze and calculate images in the smallest detail. This is very important for coach involvement. Feedback in sports must be instant to connect feeling to reality. Before the swimmer is out of the water, the image is ready for the coach and athlete on a TV next to the pool. Share your center, knowledge, and expertise with clubs and other users. Through top-down knowledge acquisition, you can guide your youth training. https://lnkd.in/eWKbN6xM

Everything you see in the video is not only mechanics, technique, technology, but also beauty, elegance, design and functionality. Well done Werner Hense

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Trendwatching: The faltering of classic cycling entities continues. On tuesday, AGU (a globally recognized cycling clothing manufacturer / domestic distributor) filed for suspension of payments, to proceed to WHOA (Chapter 11, or an approximation of it). Just last month it looked like things would work out from recent updates on payment negotiations. But latest statements indicate they weren't able to renegotiate several depts, and are now looking for new ownership or investment. I haven't yet read whether the clothing side or distribution side led more forcefully to the current financial situation; that would certainly be interesting to find out. Unfortunate news. It would seem the visibility of Jumbo-Visma and the Dutch Olympic Teams weren't enough momentum to get them through the last few months of payment negotiations. Link in Dutch.