Within 48 hours

Before you run a single session, you'll know exactly what's costing your child speed.

You send two short clips from your phone. Side-on, 30 metres of running. Then a single-leg hold on each leg — film until they lose it. Ninety seconds of work, total.

Within 48 hours I send back The Speed Leak Report — your child scored out of 10 across all seven movement standards, with the leaks ranked worst to least.

Something like this:

Push Off — 3/10

Biggest leak · fixed in Week 5

He's not driving into the ground, so he's not getting anything back. Small push off, small returns. This is why he's getting caught in the last ten metres of a chase — he's running out of return, not out of effort. Start skipping for height tonight, before you begin Week 1.

A real analysis — Alex, before and after

This is the analysis. Same eye, same seven standards, same scoring — this is what lands in your inbox.

Most parents have spent two years wondering why. They get the answer in two days, plus one drill they can start that evening.

Then in Week 7 you send a second set of clips, and I score the same seven standards again — side by side with the first. That's your proof. That's also what the guarantee is measured against.

You'll recognise this

The pattern behind almost every kid I've assessed.

They get caught by players you know they're faster than.

It's not fitness. Something mechanical is costing them metres, and more training in the same broken pattern just carves it deeper.

The first step is slow.

They read the play, they make the right call, and they're already a stride behind by the time they move. That's acceleration mechanics, not decision-making.

They fade in the last ten metres of a chase.

Not conditioning. Push off. They're shuffling instead of flying, and shuffling costs return on every stride.

The coach says "run harder."

Which is not coaching. It's a description of the problem restated as the solution.

The niggles keep coming back.

Sore heels, sore knees, shin pain that flares every growth spurt. You're managing symptoms because nobody's addressed the load pattern underneath.

They play at 60% when you know there's 100% in there.

The moment it gets hard, or someone's watching, they pull back. That's not a work-rate problem. That's a body that doesn't trust itself yet.

Why more training hasn't fixed it

More reps of the wrong pattern makes the wrong pattern permanent.

Extra training sessions

If the mechanics are leaking, volume multiplies the leak. Your child gets fitter at running inefficiently. This is why kids can train four nights a week for a season and finish no quicker than they started.

Speed and agility clinics

Ladders and cones train footwork patterns. They don't diagnose why a specific child is losing ground on a specific phase of a specific movement. Nobody in that session has watched your kid's video frame by frame.

Waiting for them to grow into it

Growth spurts don't fix mechanics. They amplify them. A longer lever on a broken pattern produces more force through the wrong structures — which is exactly when the heel and knee pain starts.

Being told to "back yourself"

The most common thing I hear from parents: "I tell him he's great and it just doesn't land." That's a mechanism failure, not a parenting failure. A child's body won't accept a claim it hasn't verified. Give them physical proof and the belief follows on its own.

How the seven standards actually work

They're not seven separate fixes. They're a chain — and one broken link costs you all of them.

Each turn feeds the next. This is why the program runs in a fixed order.

Balance

The base

Nothing above it holds without it. Week 1 for a reason.

Arms

The amplifier

Sits outside the loop and multiplies everything inside it.

Cadence

The output

Not a fix — what it looks like once the other six are integrated.

This is why fixing "foot strike" in isolation never works — heel strike is usually a symptom of no height, and it resolves on its own once push off is corrected. It's also why the program runs in a fixed order.

"Naturally faster, without putting any extra effort in."

What's included

Everything in the system.

The Speed Leak Report

Two phone clips in — 30 metres of running side-on, plus a single-leg hold on each leg. Within 48 hours: all seven standards scored out of 10, leaks ranked worst to least, and the specific week of the program that fixes each one. Plus one drill to start immediately.

Re-scored at Week 7 against the same rubric, side by side.

The Running Blueprint — the 10-Standard Assessment

Fourteen lessons walking you through assessing your own child, standard by standard: neutral feet, footwear, balance, ankle range of motion, thoracic mobility, squat mechanics, hip flexion, hip extension, jumping and landing, and hydration.

The 10 Standards check the hardware. The 7 that follow train the software.

You cannot coach push off into an ankle that doesn't have the range for it. If your child's hip extension is restricted, no amount of cueing produces a full drive through the back leg — and every session spent trying reinforces the compensation instead of fixing it. This is where we find the ceiling before we start training into it.

By the end of it you'll be able to look at your own child and see what I see. That doesn't expire when the seven weeks do.

The 7-Week Movement Mastery Program

Three sessions a week, 15–20 minutes each. Drills, tissue work, mobility and strength built into every session.

Week 1 — Balance. The base everything else is built on.
Week 2 — Posture. Drawing the bow. The lean that unlocks the chain.
Week 3 — Acceleration. First-step speed. Leaning from the ankles, not folding at the hips.
Week 4 — Foot Strike. The tripod landing. Where the braking stops.
Week 5 — Push Off. The engine. Big push off, big returns.
Week 6 — Arms. The most underrated component in youth running. Linear drive, elbows back.
Week 7 — Cadence. Everything integrated. Where they start dictating their own speed.

Durability — built into every session

Eight years of clinical Myotherapy, applied to a young athlete's body, woven through with tissue work and mobility in all 21 sessions.

Most heel, knee and shin pain in this age group is a load-and-mechanics problem, not bad luck. The program addresses the movement patterns that cause it, and manages load through the growth spurts when it flares. It's the part that keeps them on the park while the other six standards are still being built.

The Pressure Protocol

Breathwork integrated from Week 1. Nasal breathing under load, and the reset your child can run before a penalty, a start line, or a moment they'd normally rush. This is the piece that holds your kids emotions and mentality together when the game gets loud.

The Sideline Protocol

Seven short videos, one per week, running in parallel with your child's program. Built on the Rescue / Push / Coach framework — the three modes every sport parent cycles through, and how to read which one the moment actually calls for.

Specific language for the car ride home, for the game they lost, for the moment they want to quit.

Two x Mick's Eyes Video Reviews

Two mid-program check-ins. Send footage, I send back a breakdown. Catches drift before it sets.

Lifetime Access

Every session, every module, every update. If they hit a growth spurt at 14 and the mechanics wobble, the framework is still there.

From the case files

Here's what the scoring actually looks like.

Every claim below is something I watched happen and scored myself.

Alex

One session

This is not a seven-week result. This is what changed in sixty minutes, on one afternoon, with a camera running at both ends.

Standard	Before	After
Posture	4	8
Acceleration	4	8
Push Off	3	7
Foot Strike	6	7
Arms	5	8
Cadence	5	8

"The biggest thing that was lacking was push off. Now you're driving into that ground. Big push off, big returns. And you're the one dictating the speed."

Note that foot strike moved the least — that's normal. Heel strike resolves as a consequence of height, and height takes longer than one session to own. I scored it as improving, not fixed, because that's what it was.

Nothing here was new fitness. Alex didn't get stronger in sixty minutes. He got shown where the speed was leaking, and his body did the rest.

Now stretch that across seven weeks, three sessions a week, with the pattern rehearsed until it's automatic instead of remembered. That's the program.

Three kids. Three completely different leaks.

This is the part most parents don't expect: the fix is never the same twice. Watch which one sounds like your child.

The one who lands heavy

You can hear him before you can see the problem. Fighting the ground on every stride instead of taking anything back from it.

Leak: Push Off

The one who shuffles

Stuck to the ground, no height, working hard and going nowhere. Chalk and cheese between the two runs — same court, same legs.

Leak: Posture → Height

The one whose arms leak the power

Arms stuck out front, whole body twisting side to side. All that effort going across the run instead of down it.

Leak: Arms

Marcus

14 · Soccer

Walked in three months ago shuffling, breathing like he was in a sprint finish, no rhythm and no awareness of where his power came from. We fixed the running. Then we fixed the breathing.

Last month he was told he hadn't made the squad for next season. Most boys spiral. He walked into the session composed. He's now one of the best players in the lunchtime games at school — not because he's the biggest or the fastest, but because he's the calmest kid out there.

Lilly

14 - SOCCER

Brought to me because she'd been told she couldn't run. By her coach. By her peers. By her mum.

She could run. She ran well. Ten minutes into the session her mum was almost in tears watching what her daughter was actually capable of. The gap wasn't ability. It was that nobody had ever measured it properly.

How the scoring works

I score both videos. So here's exactly what I'm scoring against.

Posture

LowFolding at the hips, looking down, chin poking, collapsed.

HighA long straight bow from ankle to head, eyes on the horizon, held for the full run.

Acceleration

LowBending from the hips at the start, braking, hesitant first steps.

HighLeaning from the ankles, falling into the run, forward intent from step one.

Push Off

LowFoot stuck on the ground, no extension through the back leg, shuffling.

HighFull extension, visible spring, knee height, using the ground to their advantage.

Foot Strike

LowHeel landing well in front of the body, heavy, braking every stride.

HighFoot landing under the centre of mass, flat tripod contact.

Arms

LowCrossing the body, elbows loose, no drive.

HighLinear, elbows driving back, in rhythm with the legs.

Balance

Measured, not judgedSingle-leg hold in seconds, filmed at Week 0 and again at Week 7. Milestones: 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 120 / 180.

This is the one standard where the number isn't my opinion — it's a stopwatch.

Cadence

LowOverstriding, hesitant, waiting for the ground.

HighQuick, controlled, self-dictated turnover.

A note on tens

I never score an "after" at 10. There is always more available. If your child finishes at 8s across the board, that's a strong result and there's still more opportunities to improve.

What to expect

Three steps from here to your child's Speed Leak Report.

Book your call

Choose a time that suits you. Takes 2 minutes. No forms, no pre-work required.

We talk

30 minutes. You tell me what you're seeing — where they're getting caught, what the coach has said, what you've already tried. I'll ask a few questions. If Built From The Ground Up is the right fit, I'll walk you through exactly what happens next. If it's not, I'll tell you that too.

You film, I score, they start

You send the two clips that day. Within 48 hours you've got the Speed Leak Report and one drill to begin immediately. Week 1 opens in Kajabi at the same time, and you start the Sideline Protocol alongside it.

About Mick

I built this because I needed it at 15 and nobody had it.

I was 16 when I represented England U18s. I was also, according to the squad's psych assessment, one of the least confident players in it.

My coaches couldn't square that. They'd watched me kick the conversion that drew our first match against an unbeaten Welsh side — wind howling, their whole pack ready to charge, last play of the game.

What they didn't understand is that confidence isn't global. It lives in the body. I'd trained my body to do that specific hard thing ten thousand times, so when the moment came, my body had the receipts. That kind of confidence doesn't evaporate under pressure, because it was never built out of words.

My playing career finished through repeated knee reconstructions. Twenty years of coaching and eight years of Myotherapy later, 10,000+ clients, I've built the thing I needed at fifteen into something structured and repeatable.

20+ years coaching experience

8 years clinical Myotherapy

England U18s rugby representative

10,000+ clients coached

Common questions

Everything parents ask before they book a call.

Is this a running program or a confidence program?

It's a running program. Confidence is what comes out the other end, and it's the reason I built it — but you're buying the mechanics, and the mechanics are what I'll be measured on.

My kid doesn't run competitively. They play soccer / AFL / basketball.

Then this matters more, not less. Running is the substrate underneath every field sport — first step, chase, recovery run, the last ten metres. Kids in soccer, AFL, rugby, swimming and gymnastics have all run this framework.

He already trains four times a week. Isn't this more load?

It's 15–20 minutes, three times a week, and most of it is low-intensity mechanical work. It's designed to sit alongside a full training week without adding fatigue. If your child's load is already high, tell me on the call and I'll tell you honestly whether to start now or after the season.

What if the video I send isn't good enough to score?

Phone, side-on, 30 metres, decent light — plus a single-leg hold on each leg, filmed until they lose it. Ninety seconds all up. If it isn't usable I'll tell you within a day and tell you exactly how to reshoot it. It's never taken anyone more than two goes.

He's getting caught by kids I know he's slower than. Is that mechanics or confidence?

Almost always both, feeding each other. A mechanical leak costs speed, which costs belief, which causes hesitation, which costs more speed. The Speed Leak Report tells you the proportions before you start — that's the whole reason it exists.

How is this different from a speed and agility clinic?

A clinic gives twenty kids the same drills. This starts with a scored analysis of your child specifically, prescribes the order of attack based on their weakest link, and re-scores at the end against the same rubric.

We've spent thousands on therapy already.

Then you already know the ceiling of talk-based work: "She understands her anxiety now, she still can't get through it." This isn't a replacement for that. It's the part that works bottom-up instead of top-down.

The Speed Leak Report (Week 0 + Week 7 re-score)	$297
The Running Blueprint (10-Standard Assessment)	$297
The 7-Week Movement Mastery Program (incl. durability work)	$1,294
The Pressure Protocol	$197
The Sideline Protocol	$297
Two Mick's Eyes video reviews	$200
Lifetime access + all future updates	—
Total value	$2,582
Today	$997

Your Kid Isn't Slow. They're Just Leaking Speed
In Seven Places.

Before you run a single session, you'll know exactly what's costing your child speed.

The pattern behind almost every kid I've assessed.

More reps of the wrong pattern makes the wrong pattern permanent.

They're not seven separate fixes. They're a chain — and one broken link costs you all of them.