Building things always begins with the first thing that you do. That may sound really obvious, though until one starts, nothing gets done. And the real question is, where does one start? And the simple answer is, right where you are. And when it comes to sport, building a team fundamentally revolves around three things:…
Iceberg on the horizon, and if one sees one, you will know that 7/8ths of the iceberg will be underwater. The Beauty Of Icebergs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3NbohN_nbk And like icebergs, teams comes in all shapes and sizes, and generally the important things don’t get seen from a coaching perspective, for when watching a coaching session, everyone generally focuses…
Eighty percent rule plays a big part in the functioning of our society, and it is no different when it comes to sports coaching. For the eighty percent rule is basically that 20% of your customers, spend 80% of the money, or 20% of the people will do eighty percent of the work. It’s a figure…
Sandbars always cause problems for people navigating certain water ways, for they constantly shift, and unless one can read the ripples on the water, one will beach themselves upon the sandbars hidden underneath. And in a way, that’s a bit like coaching, or working with any group of people, for as people come and go,…
Fitness is an important aspect to any sport that anyone plays, but it is not the only one, and when combined with core skills and understanding people, those 3 alone make up a substantial part of the coaching process. And understanding people is a big part of those 3, yet we pay little attention to…
Longitude was always a problem in the past for the navigators of this world, for without it in companionship with lattitude, they could end up anywhere in this world, and generally it was on the rocks. And an interesting book I read many years ago was Longitude by Dava Sobel, which was about John Harrison…
Development is an interesting process which occurs over time, and if anyone ever follows the work of anyone for any period of time, one will always see development occur within that time. And as mentioned a few times before, my development as a coach had reached a roadblock, for I had done all of the…
Foundation Stones are fundamental to the coaching process, for they are the first stone that is put in place, and it’s just the same when it comes to coaching sport, for without a proper base, no building can truly start. Laying The Stone Foundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxGz9TuXek So when it comes to sport, the foundation of coaching consists…
Have you ever been in a group, with very few rules and yet they still worked, and in fact they worked better than the groups with too many rules to work by, that’s the power of self-organising systems. And when you look at these self-organising systems, no one really seems to be in charge, and…
The longer and longer I’m doing things and exploring different subjects and topics, the thing that most find the hardest to do is to simplify, and yet to be able to simplify is the thing which brings the greatest results and rewards. Recently, I’ve just finished reading a book called Simplify by Richard Koch &…
When people get into sports coaching they think it is about coaching a sports team, superficially on the surface that is true, though in reality it is all about engagement, getting the players to engage with the process. And the days of just expecting players to turn up, become involved and do what they’re told…
The thing that drives anyone who wants to become good in what they do is, how can we make it simpler? For different sports it could be, how can we make something go faster, or how can we make something lighter, all the same concept, it’s all about efficiency and effectiveness and making it simpler…
The longer one coaches, what you discover is that great coaching is full of counter intuitive aspects to what one would think they would be. Most would think that to win games, one would have to be thinking about the end result, but no, one is better off thinking about the process they have to…
In searching for ideas, I spend time searching Youtube for coaching videos, and the reason why I search for these coaching videos, is not to copy them persay, but to gather ideas to enhance drills and games that we come up with. So the following is a few coaching videos, which people may find of…
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…
