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,…
Distilled Essence is something that has been concentrated down from an abundance of material by pulling out the essence of that material, until one has a concentrate left. How To Steam Distill Essential Oils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBtuUUTbTyw And it’s the same with sport, there is so much information out there, where does one start? And in the…
Introductory is beginning at the start and laying out the basic aspects (Principles) to what one does. And this has been the hardest thing over the years for sport, for when one thinks about it, organized sport in the modern era has only really been around for just over 120 years, which in realistic terms,…
Philosophical you say, nope, just think about things, and by doing so, one ends up becoming Philosophical as a result, and of course that spills over into one’s sports coaching, for the two go hand in hand. For if one looks at and thinks about things long enough, patterns and principles begin to emerge from…
Applying what one learns can be just as hard as learning about the things in the first place, for just because one learns something, it doesn’t mean that one will be applying what they’ve learnt correctly, there is still more learning to do. A classic example would be lock picking. How I Practice Lock Picking…
Practical, it certainly helps if it is, for there is nothing worse than reading something and coming away going, what was that all about. For the hardest thing about writing is being able to put something out there that others can easily understand. And the biggest things one discovers when writing about coaching is, where…
Head down, work hard, but ultimately, what on? Where does one actually start, What can one do the most of to get the biggest effect? To begin understanding the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching, one hasn’t got that far to look. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ninety-Ninety-Rule-A3-Poster.pdf For one can consider the 90 90 Rule to be the head of…
Super sayings, or quotes are really just a summary of someone’s works, and some quotes are better than other, and we all like quotes, so the following few pertain to the sporting realm and a couple to the working of this reality. For when it comes to coaching and playing sport: The Core Is King…
Core blimey, all of this information can become overwhelming, it’s no wonder people don’t really look at things in depth, for there are so many corridors and cul-de-sacs, that it seems more like a labyrinth than any thing else. Inside The Labyrinth Documentary (The Making Of Labyrinth) 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFQCg0rpBK8 So let’s bypass the Labyrinth altogether…
Beginning, it’s always there in one form or another, and the coaching process is no different, though at the moment we are all thrown into the middle when we start, and it’s no wonder people flounder around for a long time before they begin to come to grips with the process. So for those just…
Poster time again. I wasn’t going to do a poster for the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching, though when I looked at it, it’s too important part of the puzzle to leave out. For the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching is: 90% of Coaching Sport is Fitness, Core Skills, Playing Structure and Understanding People and…
Underpinning is normally something which sits underneath everything and is the support foundation to what is going on. The Underpinning Process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-wcnkAkn0 And so it is with the Ninety Ninety Rule of Playing Sport, for the one aspect that underpins everything is one word, that being: Discipline And that is: Discipline to work on one’s…
Exploring coaching further, it would be fair to say up until now, isn’t really that accessible for people, but I’m starting to think now, with the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching, as it disseminates further and further afield, will give people a basic structure for them to get started. And as a quick reminder, here…
Core skills are an under rated aspect of anything that’s done, for when people do the core skills really, really well, they sit in the background and are ignored by most, yet they have the most impact on a game. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Be-A-Winning-Coach-4-Types-of-Sporting-Skills-A3-Poster.pdf Yes the X-factor skills will break open games, though without those foundation of the…
Ninety mile beach in New Zealand is not ninety miles long, it’s somewhere round about 88 km’s, but what the heck, and when it comes to sports coaching, the figure of ninety begins to surface in an interesting way. For when one begins to look at the core aspect of sports coaching, 4 components appear…
Balancing Act, that’s what coaching is about, some years it works for you, others it doesn’t, and this is why it takes a number of years to become a really good coach, for we have to learn to balance the skills, techniques and tactics side of coaching and balancing it with the people skills side…
Pattern recognition is a key aspect of the coaching process, for without the ability to recognize patterns, everything will seem disconnected and chaotic. We look at nature and it can seem random most of the time, yet underneath everything, there will be a pattern at work, though sometimes we don’t see those patterns because the…
Constructing something always requires an understanding of what one is doing, yet until someone starts, that understanding can not be acquired. Hence what everyone needs to know is that all coaching is trial and error, and it doesn’t matter how scientific one becomes, at it’s heart is all trial and error, for some of the…
