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…
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…
