Ep. 21 | Paralympic Bronze Medalist | Jack Hunter-Spivey

Hello everyone, today we welcome professional table tennis player and Paralympian, Jack Hunter-Spivey to the podcast who is set to compete this week at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics! ✅Topics Discussed: 🏓Growing up with cerebral palsy & how he fell in love with the sport of table tennis. 🗣Encounter with Tony Edge who taught Jack to love his disability, he was determined to make it at the highest level.🙌🏼Jack’s progression rapidly through the ranks & having just missed a chance to compete at the London 2012 Paralympics.🧠Experience of suffering from depression, something Jack is extremely vocal about & hopes to inspire other athletes to talk more about mental health issues.🇧🇷Experience competing at Rio & what Jack learned from that experience, making him realise the importance of the mental side of sport which he is now working on with a sport psychologist