Teddy Atlas is a legend in boxing circles and goes back to the days of Cus D’Amato, a legend in his own right. Now boxing may not be everyone’s cup of tea as a sport, though there is a lot that everyone can learn from the sport of boxing, and as usual, it is from…
Analogy and metaphor are good ways to get across ideas and concepts, for everyone remembers a picture or a story used to express an ideas, they never remember the explanation. Little Book Of Talent # Tip 21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0JtjasYCU Of course, analogy and metaphor plays to the strength of the right side of the brain, because…
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…
Mentalists and Magicians do some amazing tricks, and we as coaches can learn a lot from them, for their understanding of the human mind, psyche and behaviour are what we as coaches need to know. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve learnt a lot about sports coaching from Occultists, Social Engineers, Magicians, Mentalists…
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…
Hacking, when people hear that word it brings up a lot of negative connotations, but is it really that bad, ultimately it all depends on the intent. For when one looks at it: Mentalists and Magicians are hackers Social Engineers are hackers Locksmiths are hackers Teachers are hackers Why not Sports Coaches? How To Become…
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,…
Interesting, especially at the moment with all the effort being put in against information which goes counter to the “official narrative”, but that’s not what this entry is about. It’s actually about the word “fun” and how it’s such a loaded term, for if you ask people what the word fun means, one will get…
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…
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…
Personality, there are many different ones out there for the number of people that there are, and it can be like undoing a combination lock without having the code when it comes to understanding others. For like any combination locks, some are easier to open: Fingerprint Safe Jiggled Open – Lock Picking Lawyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg9k12aTR5o Others…
Non-descriptive terms abound in this world, and nowhere is this more obvious than with the term climate change, for what does the term climate change actually mean? So searching the web, watched a few you tube videos, managed to come across this official description of what climate change is: “Climate change refers to significant changes…
Base is an important aspect to anything that one does, for with a good and sound base set, in other words, a solid foundation, better structures can be built. And when one truly begins to breakdown and examine sports coaching, it essentially breaks into two words, they being: Base Growth So sports coaching is about…
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…
If there is one subject to get people going, it is the world of transgender athletes, ie: ex-men, competing in women’s sports. For here are 3 scenarios to think about for a transgender athlete competing in women’s sport: Would a biological natural women be at a disadvantage if a man, or for team sport, a group…
The longer one coaches, the skills, techniques and tactics start to take on a less of a priority in what one does, as one begins spending more time building a platform from which the skills, techniques and tactics can be launched from. And the better a platform that one can make, the more that one…
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…
One of the most interesting aspects of the coaching process is in working out the steps one takes, and the further one develops in the coaching process what one comes to realise, is that there are steps within the steps which enables the coaching process to happen. So what do I really mean by this…
