90% rock

Spent time recently looking at solidity of structure within CM and have been talking about the gaps that people leave.

From a CM standpoint closing these gaps is vital for ensuring your defence works. if you put up a guard but it has gaps in it you are doing little more than putting a house of cards in front of your head for protection.

Instead you need to look at being like a pyramid, easily 90% rock, if you ran up to one of the Giza pyramids and smacked it you'd hurt your hand, bounce off or do a combination of the two. Take all the gaps out of your guard and structure and you begin to have the same effect.

When I bring a hand up to cover my head I want to make sure two things happen:

1) My head is solidly supported by my traps (I imagine trying to raise and cross my traps over before pulling my neck back into it), this allows force to be channeled straight down into my body.

2) My arm must be stuck to my head at the forearm and bicep, with the elbow pointing out the front. This locking of the arm to the head means that the shot is carried down into the body. Keep your arm loose and your shoulder will move (so will my head because when I stick my arm to my head, my head sticks to my arm - both are supported). If your head and shoulder move you will tend to find your guard buckles and your head takes the shot.

Which sucks.

Close the gaps - think 90% rock and see what happens.

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28 hours at work

Is rubbish. I've just spent most of the last three days chained to my desk trying to get something out the door. Just sorted it now which is a relief.

But I have been working for 28 hours straight now. So I feel more than a little puchy.

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Balancing coaching with the rest of life

You may have noticed that I've been quiet of late. This isn't due to me having nothing to say, anyone who knows me would have to argue with that, but because work has taken a huge step for the busier and is eating more of my life than ever before.

Which is both good and bad.

Good because after 15 years working in the design and web design industry I am finally getting to a position that allows me to bring a lot of my skills to the table, from design to people skills to communication to coaching. It's hard work and I'm currently snowed under following an increase in work load caused by the sudden removal of my line manager from the company.

Bad because it is over-running a lot of other things and is competing with the time I get to spend at the gym and at home with the family.

So if I am somewhat sporadic with my postings you know that it is probably due to me being up to my neck in search engine optimisation reports or trying to put together an eleventh hour pitch for a new client.

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