MOTIVATED BY A DESIRE TO CAPTURE AND SHARE WHAT I was learning at the University of British Columbia’s Masters of Human Kinetics graduate degree program, I created this personal-cum-academic blog called Lightfooted using the free WordPress platform for a learning project for Seminar in the Organizational Analysis of Sport & Leisure (Wendy Frisby, HKIN 591). [...]
It’s kinda awesome being a social media specialist in the fitness field, as I get these kinds of perks: Last week, I was asked to try out the new MuscleCare extra strength pain reliever. Lucky for them, I had just pulled a bunch of intercostal muscles as a result of coughing too much, too hard [...]
This blog post is a kick-start to three of my goals for this year: 1) set more goals; 2) post my Masters of Human Kinetics presentations on SlideShare, and 3) blog two times a week. See you here in a couple of days! Lightfooted Strategies – Goal Setting for Athletes, April 2010 View more presentations [...]
Returning to inspirational thoughts: sometimes the best motivation is you from a previous time. Friday, November, 2007; Toronto: It all started the first week of September, in reaction to being relegated indoors after a summer of being active outdoors, teaching kids how to bike. I plotted a 7-km route from my door to the office [...]
Q: What motivated you to try your first yoga class? (Question courtesy from myYogaStory.com) I can’t remember my first yoga class – it seems like such a long time ago, but I can tell you what motivated me to head out to the first one this summer: I needed to re-juice my creativity, to become inspired again, [...]
I awoke at 6:20am this morning to climb the Grouse Grind - Nature’s staircase. The 2.9km trail from the base to the top of Grouse Mountain consists of over 2,830 steps, which makes for one tough, sweaty hour of bounding around roots & rocks and staggering up steps to the glorious view at the top. The climb this [...]
Social media platforms promotes the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Social Media. Wikipedia, The free encyclopaedia. November 12, 2009). Even though the “prosumer“ concept has been around for 40 years (Toffler, 1970), my experiences as an active, involved content innovator as opposed to the traditional passive recipient of a product or service are [...]
While cruising the ‘net for information on the ‘criminalized’ athlete whose doping activity has either harmed or advanced their careers, I came across Canadian bobsleigh athlete tests positive for steroids (CBC, Feb, 2008). Although Bobsled pilot Serge Despres contests he never knowingly ingested any performance-enhancing drugs or banned substances, he was banned from competing- or training [...]
Relating the Innovation Management Process to Organizational Theory in Sport & Leisure via poor Ricky Berens‘ polyurethane swimsuit malfunction at the July 27, 2009 World Swimming Championship (PC/The Hollywood Gossip ) I’m interested in following-up the incident with a few questions: How did the Italian design company, Jaked, handle the incident? That is, how are they monitoring [...]
This past summer Ali Howard, a former water polo player for Queen’s University, donned a wetsuit and swam the entire length of British Columbia’s Skeena River in 28 days. Ali’s Spirit of the Skeena Swim adventure brought residents and communities together around a common vision for one of the world’s most celebrated wild salon ecosystem, and earning [...]
