EXCLUSIVE: MMA star that coached football players about fighting spirit
It was one of the most viral stories of the Premier League season – Brighton hired an MMA fighter to help them with the intensity of set-piece duels. Flashscore had the chance to talk to that fighter, OKTAGON’s Christian Eckerlin, about that opportunity and the similarities between MMA and football, both sports he’s participated in at […]
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Momentum Moments
Team Dynamics & Strategy Coordinator
Johnielos Hayhurst is the kind of writer who genuinely cannot publish something without checking it twice. Maybe three times. They came to athletic skills and techniques through years of hands-on work rather than theory, which means the things they writes about — Athletic Skills and Techniques, Momentum Moments, Pro Perspectives, among other areas — are things they has actually tested, questioned, and revised opinions on more than once.
That shows in the work. Johnielos's pieces tend to go a level deeper than most. Not in a way that becomes unreadable, but in a way that makes you realize you'd been missing something important. They has a habit of finding the detail that everybody else glosses over and making it the center of the story — which sounds simple, but takes a rare combination of curiosity and patience to pull off consistently. The writing never feels rushed. It feels like someone who sat with the subject long enough to actually understand it.
Outside of specific topics, what Johnielos cares about most is whether the reader walks away with something useful. Not impressed. Not entertained. Useful. That's a harder bar to clear than it sounds, and they clears it more often than not — which is why readers tend to remember Johnielos's articles long after they've forgotten the headline.








