Snell puts athletes through a "neuro-dynamic competency screen test".
"So we're looking at whereabouts from the brain to the big toe his nerves are not gliding and sliding happily," he says, adding the body often indicates whether one side of the torso or muscle group is in captivity.
From that feedback athletes pick up exercises to reprogramme movement patterns, empowering them to take control.
"Essentially, if he comes to see me then he nearly tells me what to do because he's so attuned to how his body feels," says Snell.
Eric Heins will be Beamish's new mentor, having coached at the university for seven years.
The former Wanganui Collegiate pupil says: "I'm looking forward to it. It'll be a good change.
"He seems good so hopefully he'll stay there.
Beamish will be ending an era with school coach Alec McNab, a Scotsman who has been establishing running programmes there for more than four decades.
"I intentionally went to Alec so I could be coached," says Beamish.
He was a non-competitive runner until three years ago, before joining McNab's stable.
Beamish, who followed in Hugo's impressive footsteps, values and lauds his school coach's tutorship.
McNab, who says Hawke's Bay and Beamish are fortunate to have Snell's nous, traditionally includes the physio in a leg of his school Olympian group tour during Christmas.
"He lectures them about looking after themselves with sliding and gliding, as he puts it, so I really like his theory because he likes to get to the root of the problem," says McNab, averse to therapists simply sticking clients on a machine to assess injuries and determine treatment.
