Workshops

What happens in the room

A free 90-minute in-person session for a team, club, or PE class — why injuries happen, a live movement screen, hands-on emergency-response practice, and a warm-up they keep.

Format

~90 min · in person · interactive lecture + hands-on stations.

Who it's for

Teen teams, clubs, and PE classes — plus their coaches.

Cost

Free. We bring the material; venues provide the space.

On the ground

Past sessions

Session recaps land here — photos from the room, the team we worked with, what we covered, and what the before-and-after quiz showed. We're writing up the first ones now.

The curriculum

The run of show

Every session follows the same arc, adapted to the sport in the room. It opens and closes with a short anonymous quiz so we can see what actually changed.

  1. 1

    0–25 min

    Why athletes get hurt — the lecture

    We open with the Built to Last deck: how tissue takes load, the three ways a muscle works, and why the brain's timing decides the rest — tied to the injuries that actually sideline their sport. The animations run live and a volunteer takes the reaction-time test in front of the room.

  2. 2

    25–40 min

    Live movement screen

    Volunteers do a few bodyweight squats in front of the camera and the whole team watches the knee-collapse pattern show up on screen in real time. Seeing your own knee dive inward lands harder than any slide.

  3. 3

    40–65 min

    Hands-on emergency response

    Real reps on CPR manikins and AED trainers: chest compressions, pad placement, and what to do when a teammate goes down. This is skills training and awareness — not a certifying course. Attendees don't leave certified; they leave more prepared.

  4. 4

    65–80 min

    The warm-up that works

    A short, evidence-based routine the team can run before every practice — the hip and hamstring work that measurably lowers injury rates. They leave able to lead it themselves.

  5. 5

    80–90 min

    Red flags & what's next

    The signs that mean stop and get help now, plus where to get properly certified — BLS, CPR & First Aid, Stop the Bleed — for anyone who wants to go further.

The lecture

Built to Last

The first half-hour of the session, built as an interactive deck rather than slides — four tracks covering how tissue takes load and repairs, the three ways a muscle works, why the brain's timing decides the rest, and what to actually do about it. The animations are live and the reaction-time test is run on a volunteer in the room. Open it yourself below.

Open the lecture

Opens in a new tab. Use the arrow keys, or press N for the presenter notes.

The instrument

We measure the session, not just run it

The movement screen runs in the browser on a laptop we bring. Pose landmarks are estimated frame by frame with BlazePose, entirely on that device — the video never leaves it and nothing is uploaded.

Knee valgus

How far each knee drifts inward relative to the foot — the strongest movement predictor of non-contact ACL injury.

Squat depth

Hip crease relative to knee height at the bottom of the rep — a controlled full range versus a shallow, stiff one.

Trunk lean & asymmetry

Torso lean and the left-vs-right difference in knee control — early signs of a compensating pattern.

What we record

Anonymous, aggregate numbers only: quiz averages per session and the movement patterns we saw as a group. No names, no video, no personal information — and no individual athlete is ever identifiable in anything we publish.

Where it goes

Straight to a public page, small samples and all. These are program results, not a controlled study — we report what we saw and show the sample size next to it.

Request a workshop

Coming soon

We're a small team and we're currently booking sessions by reaching out to teams and schools directly, so the request form isn't open yet. If you run a team, club, or PE class and want one, email us — we'll answer personally.