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…
Structured practices creates flexibility, hhmm – sounds a bit like an oxymoron, for how could something that is structured, create flexibility? It isn’t as contradictory as it sounds, for the structure isn’t in being dogmatic about sticking to things, it’s about having a framework, or structure, to build one’s practices around. And depending on the…
Principled thinking is missing from a lot of what we do, mainly because we aren’t taught or shown how to do it. Yet when one begins working to principles, things become simpler over time, and the amount of paper work that one does, becomes less and less. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Coaching-Principles-Poster.pdf http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Playing-Principles-Poster.pdf And being principled in coaching, allows…
One size fits all policies, may look all right on paper, though if one has ever had any dealings with things and a one size fits all policy has ever tried to be implemented, there is a common outcome, it generally don’t work. Hence why one needs to start learning about principles and seeing the…
Trial and error, we all hate making mistakes and not getting things right, though when one really begins looking at it, all sports coaching really is, is a process of trial and error. And this is why having an overall picture in one’s mind become essential, for the point the one is aiming for, over…
Balancing things in life is always an on going process, and so it is in balancing what one does with the coaching process. If coaching, and someone comes up to you and asks, have you got any drills and exercises that I can do? What does one say? I always go yep, plenty of drills,…
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:…
