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 a CTV article (April, 2009) Banned sledder helps combat inadvertent doping. I was floored to read that Canadian bobsleigh pilot Serge Despres was banned from competing until August, 2009 due to the consumption of [...]
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 [...]
November, 2005 It’s early November when author and ESL teacher, Jeremy Taylor and I head off on another cycling adventure through southern France. It was a last-minute decision – I threw a random collection if winter-weather gear together (ski gloves, layers of sweaters and hiking boots) and hopped a flight from London to Pau on Ryanair for about 20quid. This [...]
I came across this quote while researching the effects of active video games and immediately leapt up from my desk in fear. It appeared in the NSCA’s Strength & Conditioning Journal entitled: Nothing Bad Can Happen Sitting in Front of the TV. Right? (1) [R]ecent evidence (2) suggests that ‘‘sedentary time’’ may be an independent factor in predicting health outcomes. Active individuals [...]
As I carried a Wii Fit set home from Costco this afternoon, balanced atop a large, heavy box of groceries, a gentleman passed me, saying, “You need to be fit just to carry it home!” It was then – laughing with him, that it dawned on me I was asking the wrong question! [See last Wii [...]
A viable form of exercise or purely entertainment? Playing new generation active computer games uses significantly more energy than playing sedentary computer games but not as much energy as playing the sport itself. The energy used when playing active Wii Sports games was not of high enough intensity to contribute towards the recommended daily amount [...]
At the start of this year, I couldn’t believe my luck when I learned I got into the University of British Columbia Master’s of Human Kinetics (MHK) program, and that I’m going to be in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Games. What an amazing opportunity! My love of the Olympic Games started with an old [...]