Down the Rabbit Hole
Things outside of the conventional strength & conditioning stuff.
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Episodes
45 episodes
The Art of Coaching with Ellee Beckman
A four-year-old “breathing fire” to escape a closed guard sounds like chaos until you see the coaching underneath it. We’re joined by Ellee Beckman, owner of Art of Coaching and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, to talk...
2026 Sport Movement Skill Conference Review
I’m back from a short hiatus with a field report from the Emergence Movement Conference, where debates replace slides and coaches actually talk face to face. I lay out why the real argument underneath ecological dynamics is capacity versus tran...
Paul Gagne - How Posture & Breathing Effect Performance
If you’ve ever watched an athlete dominate in games while looking average in the weight room, Paul Gagné has an explanation that cuts deeper than “talent.” We’re talking about posturology: how the brain uses vision, the vestibular system, and f...
Jesse Danger: The Movement Creative, Parkour, Play, And Purpose
What if movement was your first language? We sit down with Jesse Danger—coach, builder, and founder of The Movement Creative—to explore how parkour can turn a city into a classroom and frustration into the felt sense of learning. From a rough r...
From Primitive Reflexes To Quantum Biology: Dr. Ty Melillo On Brains, Behavior, And Balance
We explore how left-right brain asymmetry explains autism, ADHD types, dyslexia, immune quirks, and gut issues, and how movement, sensory training, and targeted nutrition create real change. Dr. Ty Melillo shares his path from test subject to c...
From Dictator To Guide: Building Adaptable Athletes Through Ecological Dynamics
What if your athletes actually got better at the game instead of just better at drills? That’s the question we chase with Coach Javi Miller Estrada—co‑founder of Ignite Performance, team member at Emergence, and host of the Adaptable Athlete Po...
How Olympic Sprint Coaching, Chinese Systems, And Wearable Resistance Shaped Elite Speed
Two coaches at the sharp end of elite sport pull back the curtain on how speed really gets built. We sit down with Olympic sprint and jumps coach Randy Huntington and Exogen’s Joseph DeSetti to unpack the methods, measurements, and micro-loads ...
Dr. Bricot: Posture Is A Brain Story
What if posture isn’t about “standing up straight,” but about how your brain reads the world through your feet and eyes? We sit down with Dr. Bernard Bricot—orthopedic surgeon and pioneer of posturology—to rethink back pain, performance, and th...
A Year Of Rethinking Movement
What if the fastest path to better performance isn’t more sets and reps, but becoming more human first? We close out the year by unpacking the ideas that changed our training and our lives: primitive reflexes that still shape adult movement, po...
Todd Hargrove On Evolution, Childhood Development, And Better Movement
If you’ve ever been told your squat is “wrong,” this conversation will change how you think about movement, pain, and coaching. We sit down with author and Feldenkrais practitioner Todd Hargrove to connect three big ideas: how humans evolved to...
Natural Movement, Play, and Evolutionary Wisdom with Rafe Kelley
What if our modern discomfort, anxiety, and health challenges stem from lack of connection and forgetting what it means to move like a human? In this fascinating conversation, movement pioneer Rafe Kelly reveals how our disconnection from natur...
Shelby Copeland - The Joy of Natural Movement
Fitness doesn't have to mean treadmills and weight machines. What if it meant solving movement problems instead?Shelby Copeland takes us on a journey that challenges everything we thought we knew about exercise. As the founder of Force ...
Left Turns and Brain Gains: A Pit Crew's Tale
Step into the unseen athletic world of NASCAR with Chad Emmons, strength and conditioning coach for Haas Factory Team. In this eye-opening conversation, Chad reveals how his journey from college football led him to the high-stakes world of raci...
Anna Bezuglova - Movement as Life Practice
Anna Bezuglova, founder of Bamboo Body in Barcelona, shares her transformative journey studying under Ido Portal for 11 years and explains how movement practice addresses the whole person beyond just physical fitness. She articulates a profound...
Robert Gourlay: Structured Water & The Hidden Science of Life
Robert Gourlay, water expert and innovator of MEA water devices, explains how structured water with negative charge is fundamental to cellular health and optimal bodily function. He reveals that drinking structured water is the fastest way to s...
Beyond Mechanical: How John Iams Revolutionized Pain Treatment
Have you ever wondered why some pain persists despite countless treatments? The answer might lie deeper than muscles and joints, hiding in your nervous system's reflexes.John Iams, the brilliant mind behind Primal Reflex Release Techniq...
The Reconditioning Athletes Roadmap
Ever wondered why some injuries seem to linger or why athletes frequently re-injure the same area? The answer might surprise you—and it's not always where the pain is.Reconditioning injured athletes requires looking beyond the obvious. ...
Greg Souders - Wolves Not Dogs
Dive into the revolutionary world of jiu-jitsu coaching with Greg Souders, owner of Standard Jiu-Jitsu in Rockville, Maryland, as he challenges traditional teaching paradigms and demonstrates how using the Constraints Led Approach transforms ma...
Dr. Robert Melillo - Neurological Development and Athletics
In this episode, we are excited to welcome back Dr. Robert Melillo, the world's foremost expert on neurological development. It's been five years since our previous discussion with Dr. Melillo, so we'll be exploring the new and innovative proje...
Andy Bryant - Natural Foot Function Podiartry
In today's episode, we have podiatrist Andy Bryant. Andy focuses on the natural function of the feet, exploring how they are biologically and evolutionarily designed to move. Andy is also a professional educator for The Foot Collective, a globa...
Deep Neuroscience with Mat Boule - "Muscles don't matter."
Mat is a wealth of knowledge. In this episode, we welcome back Mat Boule, founder of the IP Institute and Posturology Instructor at CIES.In our discussion, we explore the complex neuroscience of brain development, looking at various bra...
Studying Bondarchuk
"If you don't know history, it's as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday, then any leader can tell you anything." - Howard Zinn.“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see....
Being Water with Tyler Yearby
Today's episode is with Skill Acquisition Coach Tyler Yearby. Tyler is the co-founder of Emergence: A Movement Skill Education Company. Tyler has worked with athletes at all levels and ...