Episode 5 of the performance roundtable podcast, today we have John Hale who is a sports engineer currently doing a Phd Focusing footwear tennis.  The ask a researcher series objective is to provoke the minds both coaches and researchers to critic their own practice.  Although the focus of Johns work was on the effect footwear has on the athlete’s ability to slide and how different court surfaces effect this, the principles can apply to numerous areas.  such how do we choose foot wear during training based surfaces were using, the session outcomes and the athletes currently movement capabilities.   It always a pleasure to speak to former team mates, so on that lets get to the podcast.