207: Edward Yu on Slowing Down to Run Faster and Integrating Sensory Awareness into Technical Acquisition | Sponsored by SimpliFaster

More show note and timestamps at just-fly-sports.com/podcast-207-edward-yu/ Today’s episode features Feldenkrais practitioner and human movement specialist, Edward Yu.  Edward is a former triathlete, current martial arts enthusiast, and perennial student of Masters Li Xueyi and Ge Guoliang in the art of Bagua.  Edward has worked with members of the US Olympic Track Team as well as those in the Portuguese National Ballet.  Edward is also the author of “Slowing Down to Run Faster” the impetus of which came years after Edward quit running and discovered that conventional approaches to training are not always effective in turning people into better athletes.  Edward’s interest in how people learn and process information has led him to mix the disparate fields of sports, martial arts, dance, psychology, cognitive science, information theory, and political economy into both his teaching and writing. Learning about human movement and the acquisition of technique in sport skill has been an incredible, yet humbling journey for me.  After hearing cue after cue from coaches that never worked, I was always looking into how we actually process and acquire skills as human beings.  Two areas that I’ve dipped my toe into that I feel are vastly under-appreciated in sports performance are the martial arts, and then the world of movement through sensory awareness (such as the Feldenkrais method). Today’s podcast is all about exploring human movement and sport technique from a wider lens.  On the show, Edward and I cover many aspects that are particularly human when working on sport skills, such as over-trying, self-sabotage and motivational factors.  Edwards also gets into his ideas on our sensory and motor development has humans, how our skills as adults hinge on things we need to learn as children, and how understanding that can lead us into new territory when it comes to guiding athletes to their optimal technique. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more.