Practice receive and pass, it’s a fundamental of team sport, and yet some people are adverse to doing it, so what is really going on in the mind where some see the necessity of such practice, and others not so? How does one explain it to those who essentially loath practicing receiving and passing the…
Creative, people think that to be creative, one must have the mod con gear, well with a bit of lateral thinking, anything handy will do, it’s what one does with it that counts. The following is a quick clip, and some of the everyday stuff that they use include: Cones Car Tyres Shopping Trolleys PVC…
Restraints creates boundaries, and within the boundaries, the creativity can flourish, and yet when we are looking to do things, we are looking to remove the restraints. And the above reminds me of a quote from Earnest Rutherford: “We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think” And when it comes to exercises and…
Learn, learn, learn – realistically, it’s all we ever do, right up until the day we die, and on the sports field, learning to play quicker is something we should all strive to do. And people think playing quicker means running faster, whereas in reality, it’s in moving the ball quicker between players. Speed Of…
Enjoying the creative process and learning to love, when one does that, one will never be bored, and no problem is ever insurmountable, it may take a while, but you’ll get there in the end. Then Adele Said “I Hate Wah-Wah Oh” – Tim Pierce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubGOWfLFniw The creative process is about play – playing with…
Player centered learning is definitely a different beast when it comes to coaching, though it is the way that coaching has been morphing into over the last 10 to 15 years, and it is those that adapt to it the best are the ones who are going to improve the most. For player centered learning…
Combined training techniques, we tend to stick to our own disciplines and sports when it comes to adapting ideas, and yet when one looks around at many different sports, the concept of coaching combines 1 common theme, one is dealing with people and we all learn differently and at different speeds. But what if there…
Spreadsheet are used for all sorts of things, and one can chart many a progress with them, for one can make up any chart with a spreadsheets basic outline, and can help ones coaching immensely. And when it comes to coaching, and if one is coaching at a lower grade, the spread of progress development…
Clues can be buried deep sometimes, and sometimes one has to look at things from a different angle to see things as they are, not as they appear to be. And in coaching, one has to see things from a multitude of perspectives, for sometimes the solution isn’t always the most obvious, and sometimes it…
Magical, when things goes the way that it was planned on the sports field, nothing beats it, and as we know by now, there is more to coaching than merely the skills, drills and tactics. How one manipulates the reality around them, becomes a big part of the equation. For coming to a greater understanding…
Ten to fourteen practices a year is all one has for working with junior teams in a typical season, so the question is, how does one make most use of that time? 24 Hours From Tulsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugy2rkSM7g For at the end of the day, there is only so much that one can do in that…
Many rivers to cross, many mountains to climb, so many drills to use, which one do you chose. Well actually, it depends on what one wants to do. For when putting together a training program, one can begin to get bogged down in the plethora of choices that are available, and when one divides it…
Borrowing other coaches drills, exercises and ideas seems to be frowned upon, and yet it is what the great artists do, they grab ideas from others, add their own twist to it, and it becomes an original. “Bad artists copy, good artists steal” – Pablo Picasso So if one is starting out on the coaching…
Speeding up, well as one gets older, that’s all that time seems to do, but a question that comes to mind is, how does one go about speeding up the learning and improvement process, because as a coach, one may only have some players for 1 to 2 years. So one starts distilling things down…
Magical, when things are done well, it almost seems like it, and some of the greatest magical illusions use some of the simplest of techniques. And the following clip is simple magic tricks done with a pen using simple techniques when seen from behind, though appear magical when the techniques are hidden. 12 Pen Tricks…
Take the long way home, a great song by the 70’s group Supertramp, and I’m always fascinated by the ideas that people start with and the product they end up with, for the majority of the time the two are not the same. Take The Long Way Home – Supertramp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYfeMMeNVg It’s a bit like…
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…
