When people begin coaching, one of the first things they do is to begin looking for the secret to coaching, and if one keeps looking for long enough, what you’ll ultimately find is that there is no secret to coaching. For the secret of coaching is effectively an illusion, and where the real skill comes…
When one starts to look at coaching from the aspect of creating and maintaining a Learning Environment and building into one’s players the core skills and techniques, what suddenly becomes abundantly clear is that a new approach is required for coach learning. For the old approach of coaching coaches by only teaching the skills, techniques…
When one sees things in pictorial form, it can begin to clarify things so much better, for ultimately at the end of the day, words can only say and describe so much, and as a picture paints a thousand words, a diagram can say so much more. So in my understanding of coaching and the…
With the more and more information that is coming to light, a very distinct picture of the future direction of sports coaching is emerging. And this future direction consists of a core of 3 main parts, where the basic concept of sports coaching is simply to: Create and Maintain a Learning Environment Activate the players…
No doubt, some have been exploring the posters page on the website and come across the recent additions to all the others as I’ve had a very productive time lately, producing 6 new posters galore. I didn’t intend doing so many, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. I’ve also struck a bit of a…
When it comes to coaching sport, there is a lot of information out there and it’s very easy to get lost and confused amongst all of that information, so it becomes a case of starting somewhere and work your way from there, and what I’ve found is, that appears to be 3 areas, which in…
Anybody who coaches to any degree, will go on a coaches journey of self-discovery, for like the players, we’re all here to learn, and those that are here only to tell others what to do, are the ones who ultimately end up struggling the most, especially when the conditions change. For as I’ve gone on…
One thing one learns over the many years of doing things, is that simplest is always the best, and the way to do that is by understanding the nuts and bolts of things, in other words, getting right back to principles. And it’s the same with sports coaching, there are too many complicated concepts out…
When it comes to coaching sports team, or any form of sport, the hardest part is where does one really start. As I’ve mentioned many times before, normally it is with the generic skills, techniques and tactics, but that only takes you so far, where’s the foundation one is to work from. The following three…
To begin understanding things, one needs data to begin to see the patterns, keys and principles which forms the basis of what one is looking at. In the coaching that I’ve done, it would be interesting to see how much data I’ve gone through to come to the understanding that I now have about coaching…
As one develops their coaching philosophy, what you will notice when you take a step back and look at the bigger picture, what will begin to stick out is that there is a three phase aspect to all of coaching. And within this three phase aspect will encompass all aspects of becoming a coach. And…
When one begins learning to coach, where do you start? Most would answer with the skills, techniques and tactics, others might add, learning about people, though I’m going to put a slightly different concept out there and say the coaching begins with the imagination and the asking of questions. The Art Of Asking A Question…
I’ve talked quite a bit about the imagination and the creating of a blueprint, it’s time now to look at it in practical terms. I’ll use sport as the example, though in reality, one can apply creating the blueprint from your imagination to anything that they do. Since it all begins with the imagination, as…
In anything that is done, you always have rules and principles that one works by, and so it is with coaching, and my first rule of coaching is one that everything builds upon. This first rule of coaching is that the brain wants to learn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLYkV689s4 The desire to learn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzymbEl2DSg And in having that…
Whenever one plays team sport, when it comes to performing on the field, there are three aspects that provide the beating heart for that performance, and one aspect that will destroy it. And the three things that constitutes the beating heart, as usual aren’t complicated, though the more you know about them and implement that…
The more you begin to delve into understanding the core skills and techniques, you begin to realise how valuable they are and how much stems from them and ultimately the importance of them. And even though the number of core skills and techniques maybe small, numbering only as many as 7 or 8 of them,…
When you truly look at our world and reality, it works on principles, guidelines and natural laws and in reality, most of the time is in coming to understand what the principles are and the knowledge that governs them, and it’s the same with sport, where there are coaching principles, that when understood, one can…
In the sports world, everyone is grasping with wanting to improve and get better and they look for many ways to do it, but until one starts looking at principles, you’ll never get to the true heart of how things really work and thus how to get true improvement. Principles are simply a guideline of…
In order for trust to develop between people, the words that they use and the actions that they take must match otherwise trust gets eroded very quickly. Personally, I lost my blind trust in people in positions of authority and power many, many years ago, and as a result, I do not take their words…
Many, many years ago I was having a conversation with someone who was an insurance assessor and we got onto talking about patterns because ultimately their job is about recognising patterns. I said that after the 3rd time that something happened, you could see the pattern. He said to me, no, I’d only give it…
