I first met Ian at a backcountry event he was speaking at and I asked him if he could help me with my knee which had been giving me problems since my first ACL reconstruction back in 2002 (I met Ian in 2015). When I met Ian I had accepted that I may not ski that season (wouldn’t have been the first season I missed all or part of due to my knee) but Ian had other plans. Ian invited me to come to his gym the next day and over the course of the next two weeks and beyond he and I made more progress with my knee than I had made in years of seeing physio‘s, sports med docs, trainers, getting shots of Durolane, etc.

Ian’s approach was different than I’d ever seen and instead of telling me to do the same lunges, squats and other standard physio exercises I had been told to do for more than a decade, Ian started off by looking into what was happening with the rest of my body. I could go on and on, but to summarize, Ian’s approach towards my knee injury exposed me to a new way of thinking about my body, my joints, muscles, tissue, etc., and my knee is still much better to this day.

More recently, I injured my back and after 2 months of chiro with very little progress I went to see Ian (I moved to BC a while back which is why I haven’t been seeing Ian all along) l. Long story short, repeat of my knee injury story, Ian had his own approach, got me moving and strengthening again, tortured me by jamming his evil thumbs and elbows into various parts of my body, and here I am well on my way to overcoming my back injury. Ian’s gym and its members are simply different, a great bunch of people who are all there because of Ian and the environment for self-improvement he has created.