Magical, when things goes the way that it was planned on the sports field, nothing beats it, and as we know by now, there is more to coaching than merely the skills, drills and tactics. How one manipulates the reality around them, becomes a big part of the equation. For coming to a greater understanding…
Ten to fourteen practices a year is all one has for working with junior teams in a typical season, so the question is, how does one make most use of that time? 24 Hours From Tulsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugy2rkSM7g For at the end of the day, there is only so much that one can do in that…
Many rivers to cross, many mountains to climb, so many drills to use, which one do you chose. Well actually, it depends on what one wants to do. For when putting together a training program, one can begin to get bogged down in the plethora of choices that are available, and when one divides it…
Borrowing other coaches drills, exercises and ideas seems to be frowned upon, and yet it is what the great artists do, they grab ideas from others, add their own twist to it, and it becomes an original. “Bad artists copy, good artists steal” – Pablo Picasso So if one is starting out on the coaching…
Grass Roots development has always been an issue when it comes to any national sporting scene, and many, many countries and sports has looked into and it has always been put into that too hard basket. But what if in developing grass roots, it come from the bottom up rather than being implemented from the…
Time, what is it, no one really knows, though realistically it is the distance between two point, for if one didn’t have a distance, there would be no time. For time is realistically an abstract construct of main to keep a measure of things, and with all of the goings on of the current times,…
Important words aren’t the words that one might not think, for the meaning of words has been changed over time so that the original meaning gets lost or hidden from view. And in this day and age, with so much propaganda and disinformation thrown at us from the “official sources”, two important words begin to…
Completing a circle of life, for what can at first seem like a disaster, in hindsight further down the road, one can look back and see it as the greatest thing that could have happened. And with coming to understand Bio-Terrain and the Immune System better, it feels like I’ve completed some sort of journey,…
Mentalists and Magicians do some amazing tricks, and we as coaches can learn a lot from them, for their understanding of the human mind, psyche and behaviour are what we as coaches need to know. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve learnt a lot about sports coaching from Occultists, Social Engineers, Magicians, Mentalists…
Speeding up, well as one gets older, that’s all that time seems to do, but a question that comes to mind is, how does one go about speeding up the learning and improvement process, because as a coach, one may only have some players for 1 to 2 years. So one starts distilling things down…
Hacking, when people hear that word it brings up a lot of negative connotations, but is it really that bad, ultimately it all depends on the intent. For when one looks at it: Mentalists and Magicians are hackers Social Engineers are hackers Locksmiths are hackers Teachers are hackers Why not Sports Coaches? How To Become…
Movie Pitch come dime a dozen, and not many probably get through to the finished product, and the final product is generally not the same as the original movie pitch. So the following is a movie pitch from this reality which is increasingly looking more and more like bizzaro world, for: Imagine an illness that…
Hidden, can you see it, starting to sound a bit like an episode from the children’s program Blue’s Clue. Blue’s Clue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJAWg-iB8A Anyhow, to carry on the learning theme, a couple of videos for one to look at, pretty much pertaining to the concept of hidden in plain sight, and when one starts seeing these…
Wonderful, wonderful world that we live within and the exploration that can be undertaken, both within this physical realm and mental plane, in this multitude is staggering beyond belief. Wonderful – Everclear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfgAbFY4CA For with the ease of access to information, with a little bit of work, one can begin to find out many things,…
Magical, when things are done well, it almost seems like it, and some of the greatest magical illusions use some of the simplest of techniques. And the following clip is simple magic tricks done with a pen using simple techniques when seen from behind, though appear magical when the techniques are hidden. 12 Pen Tricks…
Vitalistic Health Care is probably not a term that many are familiar with, and I must admit, I’ve only just recently come across the term myself, and yet the basic concept is based around holistic health care. Vitalism Or Mechanism. Which One Are You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEKwZDpp0B0 I don’t know about anyone else, though the more I…
Simple technique changes can have great effects, going from making a hard job to simple, from having trouble executing a skill, to creating more power in what one does. And no where is this use of simple techniques more prevalent than in doing magic tricks and illusions, for some of the greatest magic tricks use…
Getting ahead, well we all want to do that, though the issue really is, how does one get ahead, especially when it comes to coaching. One way of getting ahead of the curve is in having a focus on the core skills and techniques and in understanding people, for those two things are at the…
Philosophical, we all get it from time to time, but what if in our approach to coaching we took a philosophical approach, for actually the word doesn’t mean what we think it means, for it’s not actually a case of pondering. For a meaning of the word philosophical is – Learned, Skilled In Learning Aahh,…
Important, everything is to a certain degree, though when we start looking at some complex topics we can all get lost amongst all of the information overload that we experience, especially in this current age, and when one starts to look at some interesting stuff, confusing can quickly set in. So the following are two…
