Alex Hannold's podcast on the limits of human performance is insanely awesome: they start right out of the gate with a conversation about the maturity of training regimes in different sports — some are mature, and some are way behind.
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I guess I'm not totally nuts when I say that maybe Judo has bad pedagogy — the sport simply isn't as professionalised as other sports, and there's a long way to go!
How exciting!
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The other interesting — if obvious — thing is that the more a sport is closer to the limits of human performance, the more tech matters. Kipchoge broke the 2 hour marathon with Nike Vaporflys, and Hannold himself says the shoes he uses for free climbing are better every year.
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