Unleashing Passion: Conquering Fear and Sharing the Journey

Foreign [Music] welcome back for another episode we uh one day late but maybe we shouldn't tell you that because hopefully you can just forgive us and um and you never realized anyway so um we are back again for another week of dump your doorstep thanks as always for turning up and and listening to us um if you haven't subscribed please do and tap the Bell notification so you can get to know when we do publish save you checking every week and.

Just like like jotting down things that I like remember about well I can tell you about my yesterday I played squash so this is my um second gosh adventures in the second time the league has happened and I got smashed three now this guy was um again very very good and because I'm a lower league a lower division they're just putting anybody in there and they'll work their way up right but he doesn't know the guy that runs Lee doesn't know how good anybody.

Encourage her as we like to call you yeah the ego boost I've basically been the ego boost for now two guys because I think they they meant to be in higher leagues but they play against me so um but I I think I'm enjoying the The Learning Experience is character building of just like right come on like yeah try and push your mindset um to try and beat against these people that are far better than you um so that was the way that it went but.

Netflix yet so I'll spoil it for you but it's because it's interesting so again his mindset for people that don't know um Conor McGregor UFC fighter he's also done some boxing um from Ireland very much at a young age he was like deluded in a good way with the idea that he was going to be the champion kind of like he's a champ he's a champion he's gonna he's gonna win belts in UFC he actually won two belts.

That was like I got I got like distracted in the buzz and I didn't take I didn't take it seriously so my mind wasn't really in it and I feel that's why I lost because I was a little bit in the bravado or the ego of the game rather than anything else I'm like oh it's really interesting Conor McGregor again the learning tip is like anybody that has that vision that long-term vision of like I'm Gonna Be A Champion but then if your mind just.

If you've not at or slapped well and the first five minutes of the game you realize you have zero energy and it's a high intense game that's yeah the worst feeling ever especially if it's like a must win and I think that's always encouraged me to okay I'm not the most healthiest eater but at least doing stuff by the book of making sure I'm eating my pasta making sure I have breakfast like making sure that I've got maybe.

It was my mate Jack um I thought it was actually KSI but maybe KSI says something similar like Jack wants to be confident like back in his pentathon days he wanted to be confident that he had trained more than the other person more than his competitor and the way that he does that is he never like slacks slacks off on his own like discipline because he wants to know when he comes to that start of the game he wants to be certainly like.

Was saying yeah it's sort of what I always got into if there's any opportunity to do extra Fitness I'd do it because I'd not only want to be the first person but I'd love to be like 10 20 fitter than everyone else which looking back at it is like I don't know if that was a clever route because then your body just takes a hammering from doing more running or Fitness or whatever and actually it diminishes the the.

Through barriers so the only thing I could to some extent rely on is is my fitness so at the start of the season when you're doing Fitness tests that you're in the top 10 20 so then you stand out so then if you do mess up from a skill point of view you know your Fitness will always sort of back you up sometimes all of this stuff is just reassuring and reconfirming or confirming the sport mindset should be.

Performance teams um podcast which is interviewing people like F1 people like all sorts of team sports um and probably individual I've only listened to a couple of them and um he was like oh my goal is to basically get this into schools that it's like a a lesson that you listen to like an hour's worth of this like high high performing teams kind of podcast stuff and again I'm like I I think keeps on confirming that people that do sport.

Mindset of team sports definitely would be like high on the curriculum for purely like mindset games and then secondary to that like teamwork tertiary to that Fitness kind of like individual Fitness you know and like problem solving and all that stuff but yeah so like building an academy would be great like would you ever want to do an Academy of some sorts or like a a hockey school or something like that um I don't know the word school because.

Yeah so just looking at what what's on my heart what's on my brain what are my giftings and and how can I move forward with that so the areas that are getting highlighted are um hockey the sport so field hockey not ice hockey and helping people in different ways um being sustainable more so from a financial point of view or like items or whatever say things breaking and it all falls together like setting up teams um the gospel so being able to share.

Coaching and a playing point of view and I think I've stuff ask them if I could help with their website and socials just to get a foot in the door of getting to know the committee and the people sort of behind the scenes to encourage to see what we could do with the team because I'd love I don't know I guess there's two mindsets of I'd love the the community they're helping others that could we make it cheaper for kids that want to.

Stuff and National Lottery funding could be a way to you know get a bunch of hockey sticks or hockey balls or like bibs and all the like the equipment that you would need so then kids from like school age um or secondary school kids or even because I think you were playing you younger than that when you um they would be able to get involved like straight away with saying it and I definitely think there's more emphasis on South South.

Watching a dubbed movie because it's it's sinking and then it's not sinking then it's not my out of sync yeah so it looks good on my side yeah um yeah and I think it's it's interesting because it's chatting to um this team North up and they're in flintshire and I'm like so who plays hockey like I I figured it out through school what's caused by hockey and he's like none there's one person that plays like goes to the school but he doesn't have a team.

Playing a different team each week so it is interesting how it's like oh this is literally Grassroots to the point that it's like evangelizing what hockey is to a community that love football and broadly speaking it's the same and broadly speaking it's kind of like a middle middle class sport of some sorts because you know everyone has to have a hockey stick right whereas in football you just have one ball so it's the the numbers game and I I think it's also the um the.

So she did like an hour with us when we were in Primary School to kind of like see if anybody's interested in this stuff some people stuck to it some people didn't but that's the way it's the introduction of it with zero cost to entry so taking your schools and be like hey can I do an hour of hockey for like the sport section of primary school like year five year six and then if anybody's interested you then create a team and.

Was a hockey stick or how to hold it but then actually it was fascinating because one of the kids didn't really get involved at all when we're playing football or basketball all the sort of go-to sports that are easy accessible I guess is the best way to put it um but then he like loved the hockey path to the point that basically the parents are now talking to the local hockey team and I was talking oh yeah so then the.

Tough um so have you ever tried any other sports because actually when they get older a lot of footballers will probably then end up doing golf well that's not a particularly cheap sport either if anything is the complete opposite of you got one of the cheapest sports to do football yeah one football and then you probably got one of the most expensive sports apart from like F1 where you basically need nine hockey sticks but it's like could you go and do like.

Power and also skill so it's like interchangeable but I I feel like so does that mean you're going to start off like basically if you got together 40 hockey sticks and um like five or six buggy balls and went to be like hey I'm DBS checked can I do an hour of hockey with primary school a primary school B Primary School C and then you would basically be like right if you're interested sign up for a league and create like a flint School.

That a local hockey club's willing just to give you a little boost surely you'd bite the hand off because it's only one session or maybe it could be like a term full of sessions or whatever yeah so it would be quite interesting just to instead of going I've got all the answers I'm walking into the club it's sort of going okay what is the club doing how are they running the website how are they running the socials how are.

Academy right so the moment It's weekly training sessions and then it might be like a day of hockey within like a school holiday uh right yeah like a training day you mean yeah so the weekly one is normally just people in the local area slash whoever's willing to travel so apparently there's someone there from oswestry that humbles which is like an hour and a half maybe two I think but on the hockey days that goes all over all.

Stick right to go to that level and you have to be like going weekly but it still feels like the real Grassroots level would be like a school league and ultimately if if um schools say oh not now then maybe you just try again next term like what about in the winter term whatever so then you build this Grassroots like School infrastructure and then anybody that wants to like take it more seriously they join the academy and then anybody that wants to join like.

Membership fee down to a Grassroots um kind of tier for somebody to run like a school infrastructure so like let's say every hockey team in North Wales gives you x amount um per year or term or whatever to facilitate the training and the basically the Grassroots of like you go into year six or year five and you do like one hour of like hockey with the schools in the area once a term or something but how do hockey teams make.

Know apparently they've got a good deal of a hundred and fifth 150 quid for two hours and apparently that's really good I think it was and how much is a hockey stick and hockey ball hockey ball can be like three quid maybe hockey stick 30 quid cheap like 250 more expensive hmm but that's the thing is one thing I'll be quite interested in is I remember trying to a dude I'm making friends with him he was a guy that was.

Playing in like you know like football cages so then there was no cost Associated to it because they recognized well the streets that they were aiming for um they were going for the sort of minority groups of the city so then it was really interesting because obviously minority groups like hockey is a very a white sport um particularly in like North Wales and stuff so they were aiming for people that would more likely than not love football and go down that route but.

In North Wales that there is that um there's a massive Sports Warehouse in wrexham somewhere I think um they provide a bunch of sport equipment I would like could you get that wrexham sport equipment company to sponsor this Grassroots county level Grassroots thing and you first try it in Conway or dembyshire or Flint or whatever and then you slowly start building it out um but the trouble is is like yeah it is the 30 quid for the hockey stick I mean.

You do old hockey sticks to them because they would basically leave this trailer open so if you go along to their Saturday training you can then pick a hockey stick and use for that session so I thought that was very sort of good in that regards yeah it's super interesting because I'm like do it lad basically create a organization that generates Grassroots hockey as the starting point where you go into schools and you do an hour of hockey with kids you get a sport whales.

You take will actually go into full-time hockey and those would be now lifetime purchase um lifetime value people for that hockey brand and they would stick with them because like when I was a kid I played with um I don't even know any hockey Brands Grays yeah I played with a gray stick and I've stuck with grays you know or even if you try and get a challenger if there's a new kid on the Block when it comes to like a hockey brand and you'd.

Sort of like a trophy I know basically big big Brands because you get a bunch of local companies to sponsor it yeah so there's a lot of ideas and floating around it's out it's morning I've not used to I've not spoken to anyone this morning my throat is dying at the moment um but yeah there's definitely a lot of ideas because even not just on the performance side I would love just to do like video analysis or something that a.

Even if I wouldn't have played as well it's just uh I didn't realize how much I liked the video analysis side of it or I don't know how much I realized that the photography side of for like taking photos then put on social or whatever that thing is and to be honest the video stuff is easy right you literally position a camera and you do a drag flick or whatever now drag Flick's basically the equivalent of a of a.

Of a oh right yes stream of your team and then picking certain segments of it and that's because you had sensors right you had individual like sensors that you're running with like GPS sensors or was it just a camera fixed above the pitch kind of thing so just a camera fixed above the pitch but separately I have had that GPS that tells you how much you've run in I think it's like every quarter of the match and how far.

Where your heart rate is very very high and that is typically if you stay in that zone I think it's working more so on um like the what's it when you run um what's that stuff cardio it's working on like car the cardio benefit but when if you have it slightly slower it's working on fat burning benefit or whatever it is so you want to kind of get yourself into a particular zone for the benefit of the said Zone which is insightful so.

Those top ideas impacting those pillars yeah I think I don't like saying this specific thing because I'm aware that when you chat to people and they're like oh yeah that was done last year and it completely failed so I prefer to be a little bit more flexible because it's not like football that there's a certain way of doing things that then as long as you mirror the Premier League Clips then it works out because it's a bit different.

That doesn't really work because it's a hobby rather than a profession and actually if it is a profession you're probably playing for Great Britain like even playing Prem you might only just get some money towards your petrol or half a wage or whatever you might not necessarily be able to live with it so and I assume yeah it's it's recognizing people will have different passions and go to different universities or have different jobs and you're wondering will that.

There's sponsorships associated with the fact that people are watching these teams play right because basically you're in I assume what league is Northup in and who controls the league uh the league is like an English league that's in English um England and Wales league but it's called England Hockey yeah and they're in North West Division I want to say like four or five north it's quite complicated because because um it reminds me of I probably mentioned this before but you know The Rock Dwayne.

Would have like a video subscription so people could subscribe to watch the games but then you'd have to record the games and have some commentators so you'd need like infrastructure but then I'd be like why would people bother why like what's the interest back in the day they used to have a North Wales league but because if you played in the English league you weren't allowed to play in the Wales while everyone slowly moved over so Colin Bay had their fourth team in the.

More other teams in the English league but yeah it's looking at all options and I guess it's sort of looking at football because you have the the Welsh Prem what makes people want to go to that well it seems like local football particularly there's more people going to Colton Bay football club while they've been promoted back to Welsh Prem but they had to work their way up similar to your squash League because they actually jumped into the English league because they thought oh.

Yes it reminds me of the new golf leagues that are coming out that are competitive and the reason why they're competitive is because they're paying more so if the prize money is more you'll draw more attention if also you kind of have a bit more flexibility in the rules people are more likely to join right so for example um you know the whole tennis thing of like you have to wear white when you play Wimbledon like if you were like.

Bunch of sponsors and kind of getting that funding in people are already streaming people are already playing the games and then you kind of Club it together and then you'll say oh the prize money is 600 Quid you know cool you're willing to play a couple of games for that because you you already are doing the games so could you be like get three businesses willing to donate a thousand pounds and then you write right whoever wins the North Wales Hockey.

Name of it now live golf or something yeah live golf if you basically became like the left golf of North Wales to like dominate because you're going to provide this like different level of quality and appearance and style and stuff I'd be super super fascinating and really deep down all this is about is instilling a bit of purpose right and a bit of like discipline and all those qualities into young kids that will then help them as they go in to different.

They'd kick off I would be very fascinated I would love that I would love this to actually happen it'd be like really really interesting we'll see I'll put a thousand pounds in for the prize and get people to play against it I mean even that like if you said hey we're looking at creating a new North Wales um League it's a hundred pounds to join to get signed up and the prize is a thousand pounds like how many teams in the whole of.

Interesting so you do a across Club thing but what I would also create some sort of model to then share it with others which would be this Grassroots in schools a way to basically build people into the academy that you've created which is your Saturday trainings which then is the funnel basically for kids to to join hockey right yeah which would be tough because I guess it's heavy reliant on volunteers hmm but initially you'd be the volunteer going to year six and be like right.

Way to do it is like just do it you'll learn through doing I mean the worst thing is like right well actually you probably aren't allowed to do this anymore but it's like you're speaking right everybody do 10 press-ups is that allowed these days like you know the whole like probably not that's that's why I'd probably have to go back to uh some sort of like training to figure out what is and isn't allowed to motivate a team yeah.

Hockey League um names into the into the chat and um until next time keep hammering those Nails bye for now foreign.