Rest settles it every time. Then the first full game brings it back. That's because rest pauses the load — it never changes the landing that caused it. This is a 3-session program that changes the landing.
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Rest works, so it keeps getting used. Ice, heel lifts, new boots — it settles in a few weeks, they go back to playing, and within a fortnight it's back. Nothing in that loop is wrong. It's just incomplete.
Film the foot in slow motion and you'll see why. It lands flat, out in front of the body, heavy — braking instead of driving. The load travels straight up through the heel, so the body quietly stops pushing off. That shuffle becomes how they run.
Three sessions, fifteen minutes each. Watch Coach Mick's video, run the drill in your backyard, watch the mechanics change. By session three, you'll see a different kid on the field.
A dad came to me frustrated. His son was getting out-run by kids he knew were slower. The boy had the football brain, the hunger, the vision — but the body just couldn't keep up.
We filmed him. The mechanics were obvious once you knew what to look for — energy scattering upward instead of forward, a foot strike that was braking instead of driving, arms crossing the body and killing every burst before it started.
Three sessions later his dad messaged me.
"He looked different out there. He was first to the ball."
That's what fixing the physical does. The speed follows — every time.
Fire The Engine is a movement coaching program, not medical treatment, and nothing here is a diagnosis. Heel and lower leg pain in growing children has several possible causes — if your child is in pain, please have them assessed by your GP, physiotherapist or podiatrist. This program is about how a child runs, and it sits alongside that care rather than replacing it.