When this double bill was first announced, I had a double-take. It sounded too good to be true. There is no doubt in my mind that Sonny Landreth and Eric Johnson would occupy 2 spots on my own personal Top 10 guitar player list. A double bill would prove to be something akin to guitar heaven – at least in my world.

Better yet, a double bill in which they both played on the same stage at the same time would be even more incredible. One could only hope for such nirvana.

Last Friday, September 30, I was witness to, well, guitar heaven - or at least the little piece of it that came to the Paramount Theater in Austin.

Both of these guitar players have provided me with some significant memories over the years. They have both been a part of my journey, first to Texas and then in my development as a guitar player. On Friday, they reminded me of what passionate musicianship looks like, sounds like, and feels like – together on the same stage.

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We are so close - and yet so far away, in so many ways - to the next great Revolution.

Mankind has experienced the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Modern-day science has provided the health and medical communities with a tremendous number of studies, analyses and reviews that now give clinicians a strong evidence-based foundation for the assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.

We now have all the makings of a Health Revolution. We have all the reasons in the world to have that great clinical epiphany. We are standing on the edge of the cliff ready to jump.

Yet many don’t. And won’t. They will choose to not make the next step.

When push comes to shove, beliefs can be far stronger and more resilient than the evidence.

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It may be hard to believe for some, but the University of Texas Longhorns are now 4 – 0. In some polls, they are even back into the Top 10. We do need to remember that these wins were against Rice, BYU, UCLA, and Iowa State – none of which have looked that spectacular this season.

However, the Horns have won 3 games on the road, and that does count. And although they started the season at Rice, they really got the road trip rolling with a big win against UCLA. It was against UCLA last season that the Horns got pounded. What was bad then became worse when they lost to Iowa State at home. And it was all downhill from there, in more ways than one.

Given the way they played last season, a 4 – 0 start is a big change in the right direction. They have already erased some of last year’s humiliating losses with solid victories this season. But there are a lot of games yet to be played, and Oklahoma – the number one team in the country – are lurking right around the corner.

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The theme of the week has been pushing the boundaries of human performance. Today’s post continues that theme directly into my own personal timeline. No, I didn’t break Mach 1, nor did I complete 540.8 miles of endurance sport mayhem. I didn’t win my age group. Fair enough. But there was that day when I went 140.6 miles under my own power – at Ironman USA in Lake Placid, New York.

I used to watch “Wide World Of Sports” as a kid. I can distinctly remember watching Julie Moss crawl to the finish of Ironman Hawaii in 1982 and asking aloud, “why would anyone want to do this?”. Of course, that was long before I became a physiotherapist or started coaching endurance sport athletes. Our perspectives certainly evolve over time.

Fast forward to 2004 – when I found my own answer to that very question.

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