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Hello There Long Weekend!!!!! 🍃🚲😍 · I hope wherever you are and whatever you get up to, you enjoy time in special places, with special people and/or some super special food (nom nom nom 🍫). 👋
The joy of friendships, and fun in the sun! · So wonderful to see you @pogoodytwoshoes 😆😘 · Photo by @thegayesy and EllieDog.
How do we learn to trust our bodies as we explore a new skill? What does this process feel like as we experience it in challenging and unfamiliar situations? How can we scaffold it, encourage it? What are the roles of other bodies in helping us to trust our own? · Kristina Brümmer, pictured, and I have been exploring these questions on the trapeze and at weekly handstand classes at @themovementacademy. We hope to write a research paper bringing together methods and theory from sociology, performance studies, anthropology and cognitive science. · If you have any thoughts on how you develop your own sense of trust while learning a rad skilled manoeuvre we'd love to hear them too! · iPhone photo: just the right nudge at just the right time with the master @bernard_bru_. 🙌 (I feel like this emoji was designed for this image!)
"But I didn't think Jasmine flowered at this time of year." "Shhhhhh......It'll hear you!" · A little bit of magic in our lovely, homely garden. 🌱
"Our skillful capacities are dynamic. They waver. Sometimes we gain things in one area while losing something in another, then grow in another direction entirely. Research on skill emphasising constant progression needs to reflect this." 🤸‍♂️🤩 · An excerpt from my talk yesterday 'The dynamic experience of embodied expertise' at a workshop on Minds in Skilled Performance at University of Wollongong. · I shared some of my fieldwork learning the trapeze and spoke about the importance of considering complex real-world case studies in challenging or high-pressure situations when researching all the incredible things a human body can do. (A lot of philosophy and psychology research on skill uses quite simple case studies, like putting a golf ball in a lab.) · It was an excellent and thought-provoking day with a hugely interesting mix of people thinking about thinking. Thank you for inviting me to present and thank you so much to everyone involved. 🙌 · Photo by a class mate doing some of the right things and some of the trying-hard-compensating-harder things about a year ago @themovementacademy. Thank you too!
To use such nice things is a privilege and a pleasure. 🥳 · Sharing an enormous thank you to @specialized_au for their support over the last 12 months for producing original content and for having the resources to do so. I hope you've enjoyed some of this content too. 📝 · I've worked hard to offer informed perspectives rather than reviews, along with other creative and opinion pieces celebrating cycling as part of a healthy and precious lifestyle. This is what feels far more real and honest to me as a writer and what I hope resonates with readers. · People are quick to say we need more content by and for women in cycling, but far less quick to fund it. Having worked in this space for over ten years it means the world when a person, company, organisation and/or publication isn't afraid to step up and look at alternate ways of producing that content and make sure contributors are paid for their time. · On a personal note, using equipment like this has been invaluable for rebuilding my health away from the bike after a particularly challenging period, something I'm forever grateful for too. · Photo of the S-Works Epic by @thegayesy, right at home on some of my favourite Sydney trails. It's time to return this bike now (sad!). If you haven't checked out the @specialized_au and @specialized_nz websites recently, a bunch of Epics and many other bright shiny things are currently on sale. 🚴‍♀️✨
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