This is a stage performance, but the lesson rings loud and clear for all those seeking peak performance in their chosen sport.

Provided, compliments of Karen Crawford.

Here’s a commercial – just for fun!

One thing is for sure – you have to get pumped up for your games, training and competitions – I’ll address this in future blog posts. There are several anecdotes that you’ll really enjoy!

Before you go ahead and watch the video below, I just wanted to thank you for all the support, love and encouragement you’ve shown me in the past week while I was competing at the 2009 World Masters Games. I will be blogging about several other distinctions and insights on this and my other blogs over the next few weeks – it really has been a surreal experience. One that even surpassed my own expectations by a long shot.

Every time I stepped on the court, I felt you there with me – that meant I played harder and better. I highly recommend that you compete in sports and when you do, that you involve others to be there with you -physically or in spirit. It makes a difference.

Anthony Robbins calls it leverage and I totally agree – however not in the sense of getting you to do something you otherwise wouldn’t do, but for successful people who are already at a good, great or excellent level – to stretch their sphere of influence to become the best they can become. The person they knew they always could become.

Once again thank you and here’s a video that was sent to me by Bruce Hildebrand of Balance and Control Pilates in Melbourne… Enjoy!

Inspirational Video

In a Chinese modern dance competition on TV recently, one very unique couple won one of the top prizes.

The lady, in her 30′s, was a dancer who had trained since she was a little girl. Later in life, she lost her entire left arm in an accident and fell into a state of depression for a few years.

Someone then asked her to coach a Children’s dancing group. From that point on, she realized that she could in fact keep dancing. So, she started to do some of her old routines, but having lost her arm, she had also lost her balance. It took a while before she could even make simple turns and spins without falling.

Then she heard of a man in his 20′s who had lost a leg in an accident. He had also fallen into the usual denial, depression and anger type of emotional roller coaster she herself had experienced. She was determined to find him and persuade him to dance with her…

He had never danced, and to dance with one leg…. He responded as you would expect: “Are you joking with me?? No way!”

She didn’t give up, and he reluctantly agreed thinking, “I have nothing else to do anyway.”

She started to teach him dancing – it was painstaking. The two broke up a few times because he had no concept of using his muscles, control his body and knew none of the basic things about dancing.

When she became frustrated and lost patience with him, he would walk out. Eventually, they came back together and started training – seriously this time.

They hired a choreographer to design routines for them. She would fly high (held by him) with both arms (a sleeve for an arm) flying in the air. He could bend horizontally supported by one leg with her leaning on him, etc.

In the competition, as you saw, they dance beautifully and they legitimately won the competition.

When I watched this I didn’t even realize that she was missing an arm because I was focusing on the guy with only one leg.

Was it the same thing for you?

Please share your comments on this blog – I’d love to hear them!

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This is compliments of Bruce Hildebrand – B.App.Sc.(HM)
Bruce is co-director of Balance & Control Pilates Studio in Melbourne and Consultant Strength Coach to the Australian Ballet School.  With a lifelong involvement in sports, Bruce holds a degree in sports-science, international certifications in Pilates and is the Australian pioneer of the revolutionary Franklin Method®. With 10 years Pilates experience, Bruce presents to related industries his teachings of Imagery and Movement incorporating both Pilates and the Franklin Method® at Conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and the UK.  His clientele range from Olympians, Masters Athletes, Elite Athletics, AFL, A-League and Tennis players, Models and TV stars.
Balance & Control Pilates Studio offers internationally trained and experienced professionals to deliver proven medical-research-based and results-oriented Pilates exercise to accelerate your back pain reduction, core strength, postural pain and flexibility so you will excel at your chosen daily activities.

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