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Kim is an Australian high performance coach and physiotherapist who has spent the last 8 years at the pinnacle of world motorsport. Kim has worked for the likes of Hass F1 team, Alpine Racing and one of the most famous teams in the history of F1, McLaren Racing. Kim has also worked exclusively as a personal physiotherapist  and performance coach for F1 drivers Romain Grosjean and Oscar Piastri. If you are fan of the Netflix series "Drive to Survive" or have ever wondered what's involved with working as a practitioner at the highest level of motorsport in the world, Kim shares an unprecedented view of the pressures, volatility, year round  travel and the glitz and glamour of what is Formula 1 racing. 

Highlights from the episode…

• How the opportunities in the sport of AFL and Netball early in his career laid the foundations for skills he would later use in motorsport.
• With a desire to work in the AFL and currently working with the feeder team to North Melbourne FC, why Kim decided to give it all up and move to the UK with no job.
• How Kim secured a role with the University of Leeds working with a newly developed athletic program covering 13 different sports and athlete profiles. 
• How Kim was able to get his foot in the door of Formula 1 with Hinsta having no prior experience in motorsport. 
• Kim shares his time with the Hass F1 team and the steps he took to implement a performance model for the team.
• Kim describes his transition from team physio to working exclusively with F1 driver Romain Grosjean and what is entailed being directly responsible for the health and wellbeing of 1 of only 20 F1 drivers in the world.
• The risks and rewards of working exclusively with an individual athlete as oppose to working as part of a team/organisation.
• Having worked closely with 2 different F1 drivers in his career he shares the differences in the working relationship and how he had to be adaptable and bespoke in the management of the different drivers.
• Kim shares the physical demands of a F1 driver, the level of G force each driver has to endure and how they prepare drivers for these demands.
• What other sports can learn from the F1 drivers when it comes to mental preparation, state control, rapid decision making and focus that drivers need when racing F1.
• The relationship of F1 drivers and ACL injuries. How F1 drivers improve reactiveness to stimulus and what other sports could learn to improve their response to an unanticipatory event.
• Having a resume that many would dream of, what has been the cost of having such career?
• After close to a decade at the pinnacle of world motorsport why Kim chose to step away from F1 and pursue the next chapter of his career. 

People mentioned:

• Callum Repper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/callum-repper/?originalSubdomain=uk
• Peter Lion: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterlion/
• Clare Lion: https://www.onephysiotherapy.co.uk/team-bio/clare-lion
• Dr. Luke Bennett: https://www.hintsa.com/insights/blogs/story-of-luke-bennett/
• Mark Young: https://open.spotify.com/episode/17aAXmr5EdiTtxfqs1D1Zn
• Dave O’Neil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-o-neill-60229442/
• Dr. Stuart McGill: https://www.backfitpro.com/about-us/

 

Kim Keedle contact details: 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimkeedle/

Host: Luis Resa

Contact me on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-resa-a975196b/
• Email: [email protected]

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