There’s a simple saying when it comes to developing and maintaining ability – USE IT OR LOOSE IT. This works both mentally and physically. Ever been on tour in a foreign country and learnt a small collection of sayings that helped you at the time, and now can’t remember any of it…? You came back home and didn’t need to say, “excuse me. Where is the bathroom?” in korean, because you were no longer in Seoul… so guess what, you forgot how to say it. You didn’t need it, so you di

Failing is a good thing – both in training and in life. Failing in life can be quite hard hitting and may not present any positive silver linings for quite some time, so I will mainly be talking from a training perspective. In training, working out, body conditioning and practice you have to fail to know where you stand in your physical ability. This might be a physical bodily failing where you can lift a weight any more, run any further, or too tire to carry on – or this can