I am that person who had a negative experience of PE. School PE was for the few who could make the teams. It wasn’t for me. PE philosopher, Scott Kretchmar, says all kids should be encouraged to ‘find their playground’. I believed there was no playground for people like me. I could not relate to any of the posters of high-profile athletes plastered on the walls of my school. I did not enjoy PE lessons, had no way into school games and events, and that spilled into my informal physical play. I believed I just did not possess the skills - never for a minute did I assume I hadn’t been taught them or that someone could be taught them - it was obviously just something to do with ME.

If you had told me twenty years ago I would be the co-founder of an app, the prime goal of which was to make the world more active, I would have laughed on two counts. Firstly, the idea of me linked to tech when my kids still laugh at the speed at which I send a text or take a photo and secondly, because being ‘active’ was something I never thought was for me. I have often recounted reasons for my dislike of PE at school: never feeling good enough, the humiliation of hearing a drill instruction and not being able to replicate it, being picked last for sides, feeling uncomfortable in my PE kit, never having the opportunity to experience the comradery of belonging to a team, the list goes on… I decided once and for all it was never going to be ‘my thing.’ How I wish those stories just described my own experience and that of a handful of others in a subject that has long since changed…