Today was quite simply a review of what I need to do. And that is to initiate with more upper body as opposed to arms, but I think there is a fine balance between both, you still need to have the right arm movement vs. shoulder movement. See video below to see what I’ve done in this lesson.
Our 2010 Showreel has just been completed, but we’ll always update it with some new work. See the web version here (42mb):
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I remember earlier this year I mentioned that I was enrolling in personal training with Clance Laylor from Laylor Performance Systems, well, I did, but only briefly in the summer time because it was in the middle of the golf season and I didn’t want to be sore when playing in tournaments. And because of that, I had to stop training in season, which I regret now, because personal training...
In these two lessons, Doug has compared me with an LPGA star that has great leg and hip clearing movements because that is where all the power should come from. I’ve always been more hand-sy when coming down, and usually my arm initiates the downswing as opposed to using your legs and hips. In fact, by using my arms, it has a tendency to cause a greater outside in swing which is what...
This evening, the Toronto Board of Trade hosted the One-on-One with Dragons’ Den panelist. We had the opportunity to ask W. Brett Wilson (a Flash site) from Dragons’ Den, along with a very successful entrepreneur Gloria Rajkumar, president of Simac (4th in Profit 100) and Mike Michell, the National Director for Small Business (RBC) a series of questions in regards to entrepreneurship.
Season is almost over and I have decided to enroll again in some Fall training program to further refine my game. I have also started doing some off-season personal training with Laylor Performance Systems (Spadina & Wellington), who trains a lot of am & pro athletes. I figured, if I was going to get more power, in a controlled manner I would need to get stronger in general so I am always...
Early morning of November 1st, Pixelcarve were notified by Davey Awards that they were honoured with 2 gold and 1 silver for Pixelcarve.com, Rhombusmedia.com, and Conte & Associates. Only 1 of 3 Canadian companies were given this prestige award. “It is humbling to be included amongst such inspiring and cutting-edge work by some of the world’s most passionate boutique agencies.” says...
I was invited to be a presenter for the Cambridge Cup at the Cambridge Food & Wine’s society’s Awards of Excellence Series at Columbus Centre. More details about the event here. Photos below were courtesy of Winnie Zhang, the president of the Cambridge Food & Wine Society.