Mind and body work together
This short course demonstrates the amazing changes in mental capacity that can be created by effective practical mind development techniques, and illustrates how closely mind and body function in coordination. Using these techniques Gregory was able to run match the current British sprinting champion at that time, with relatively little physical fitness preparation. You may not personally want to increase your sprinting speed, but the principles described here have many applications both for physical and mental development.

The purpose of Zen and the Art of Sprinting is to train the athlete to operate the body intuitively rather than consciously. The sprinter has a considerable reserve in speed that he cannot normally call upon. This is because he is too self-conscious of his striding. When a person operates part of the body consciously he controls this part of the body by perceptual feedback. In the normal person this mechanism is too tightly set so he checks himself more often than he needs. To give an example: when a person lifts something he checks the muscles he is contracting by contracting the opposing muscles and as a result he attempts to put down the object he is lifting at the same time as he attempts to lift it. Another example would be thermostat in a heater that is too tightly set - a feedback mechanism that is too tightly set will cause an oscillation and so waste a considerable amount of energy.

The basic principle of Zen is to un-tighten a person's feedback mechanism, or to put it more simply to stop us putting our foot on the brake at the same time as we depress the accelerator, and thus allow us to operate our body with the intuitive part of the mind. Most of the exercises in this course are based on those used in Zen archery and karate but modified so as to apply to sprinting.

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Testimonial
I first met Gregory thirty years ago when I was nearing the end of my studies at Osteopathic College. We quickly became friends due to our common interest in athletics. My interest was physical: I now practice as an osteopath and am also a member of the Football Association Medical Society.

Gregory's interest was in the mental attitude of the athlete. I still have an article he wrote in those early days entitled "Zen and the Art of Sprinting." During this time he put many of his ideas to the test at Crystal Palace athletic track and attained several unofficial records. Gradually, his business interests intruded; he worked in electronics for a company supplying the government in a mangerial role and also as a trade union representative.

More recently, I learned that Gregory had resumed his former interests in the mental aspect of athletic motivation and was working in this field, assisting Dr Victor Ratner in Harley Street. He also had his own practice, motivating the unemployed.

In my observation, Gregory is an original and courageous thinker. His ideas, I have noticed, are a little ahead of time. He is one of the very few visionaries the world is lucky to have.
--Neil Mann, D.O.