What did I learn from the Symposium?

"Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house” Henri Poincaré.

During the Running Injuries and Performance Symposium hosted perfectly well by the Sports Surgery Clinic and his Sports Medicine department last Saturday in Dublin #sscrun2019 , I noticed again on how far we still are as Coaches from properly work as a synergetic even, equalled, levelled, and finally aligned towards our athletes/students processes/results.

We were sharing through biomechanics, physiotherapist, medicals, physiologist, even through a Runner, but actually what I missed from this meeting, was the Coach's perspective of this topic. The Info presented from all them was accurate, precise, perfectly well supported by science, but (you know a "but" was coming ...) the LINK , the connection with the person/athlete/student was missing pretty much. And of course, this is our job when we lead a Training Process, being aware of the science behind what we are trying to achieve but to "digest" all this huge amount of facts, of information , to ultimately deliver the more tailor made possible stimulus to ours athletes.

I had the beautiful chance to have a nice and relaxed conversations with two inspiring professionals, Daniel Liberman and Frans Bosch and also because of their presentations , I realized how you can have and share astonishing analytic science facts but at the same time they can make you understand (hopefully) the wider spectrum , the systematic approach to the whole picture so you can maybe understand that of course is part of your job knowing what's happening behind the scenes, but being aware that we're spending to much time in my opinion to this narrow perspective.

My biggest take away from this meeting is that we need to open our eyes, work and explore in continuous broader field, get out of your box, out of your comfort zone, challenge your believes by doing, by moving by trying to understand the people in the opposite side of the globe. Dan Liberman exposes a fact which paint in this regard and makes me understand how biased we are:"Science outcomes comes from the 9% of the world population". Just think about it.