Twisting Wires

Fremantle's AFL womens Captain Kara Antonio. She was drafted as a marque player in 2017, an All Australian player and nominated as the competitions MVP in the 2017 season. On this episode we discuss:

- How she deals with the pressure around performance and external noise.

- How being vulnerable and open with her teammates took so much weight off her shoulders as captain.

- Captaining and playing with her wife Ebony.

- Coaching an all males prison Football Team and how it shaped her as a person.

- What values she lives by and much more.

Instagram: @kdjudd15

Books we spoke about:

Dare To Lead by Brene Brown

The Resilience Project by Hugh Van Cuylenburg

Today we speak to Rob Chipchase. Rob has been the physical performance coach at the WACA for 8 years, training male and female cricketers to perform at their best. He is also the director of Apex performance where he trains athletes from professional basketball, women's AFL, mens AFL, professional cricketers and many other sports. On this episode we discuss the importance of strength, conditioning and recovery and how it plays a role in an athletes performance. Strength and Conditioning has a massive impact in an athletes performance and career, not only is it going to help you take your game to another level physically and mentally but it's going give your body the best chance to stay on the park injury free and increase your longevity in the game.

Instagram: @ap3x_performance

Chis Mayne is a plant-based athlete who plays for the Collingwood Magpies in the AFL. He started his career at the Fremantle Dockers playing 172 games before making the change to Collingwood. He has gone through many ups and downs throughout his career and today we discuss the challenges he faced changing clubs, how becoming plant-based has helped his recovery significantly, advice if you want to transition into a plant-based diet and also being your authentic self in a sporting culture.

Instagram: @cmayne23

In this episode we talk to AFL’s Geelong young gun Jordan Clark. Jordan was pick 15 in the 2018 national draft and since has been a key player in the Geelong lineup. We discuss the steps he had to take to take his game to the next level and the way he prepares and trains while learning off some of the best in the game in Gary Ablett, Patrick Dangerfield and Joel Selwood.

Instragram: jordann_clarkk

Today we are speaking to the run machine Jonno Wells. He is coming off a massive big bash season, he was recently awarded the MVP for the Adelaide Strikers and was a high contender to be picked in the Australian T20 squad. We talk about how he dealt with losing his professional contract 3 times, how he learnt the psychological side of cricket and how he developed into a T20 player.

Book: The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters

Instagram: @jwells_9

Tom is a former Professional Cricketer at Middlesex CCC in England and now an Entrepreneur and his business Cricket Mentoring aspires to assist cricketers from all around the world. We are going to discuss his challenges throughout his career, the belief of the world's best players, what makes a player successful, how he started an international business.