When ever we play golf, we always have a selection of golf clubs that we choose, and depending on the situation that we are in, will depend on which of the golf clubs that we will use. PGA Golf lesson – The 3 Club System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxr7QAMW-k Golf clubs are basically grouped into 4 types, they…
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…
We keep hearing the term of things like the Modern Game, but in reality, what is the modern game? Generally, it is of the teams that is winning at the time and the way the game is being played at that moment in time. For what you will find is that when a team that…
Most people at some stage would have worked within teams when the cohesion amongst everyone allowed the team to function at a greater level than normal. This would be because everyone was working from the same page, had synchronized up and developed, what is called Coherence Entrainment. Synchronization Of Metronomes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaxw4zbULMs And when one is…
As soon as one begins the process of learning about and creating a learning environment, one has set themselves on the path of breaking the current coaching mould. For up until the last 5 years, the current coaching mould has been the coach centric model, with the players blindly following the coaches instructions, though as…
When one begins looking at coaching sports, there is a mass of information out there, where do you start, well you can only start with what you know and then it becomes a case of sorting the priorities for what one wants to achieve. And because in reality, as coaches, we spend so little time…
Being an avid reader, over time one collects a lot of books on multiple topics, and as time goes by one can begin crafting books by different authours into groupings which applies to the crafting of a Learning Environment. The following is a collection of 6 books, and though by different authours on different subjects…
As I’ve gone along in my coaching development, and I look back to where I started and where I’ve come from, in terms of the results I now get and the knowledge I’ve acquired over the time, it turns out there are 3 important learning questions I asked of myself that helped in furthering my…
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…
We all want to win, but some people have a knack of winning more than others, and the more they seem to relax about winning and not really worry about it, the more success they seem to have, surely a paradox if ever there was one. For within this paradox is a process that they…
The biggest problem for most coaches is that they wait around for talent to come, though by doing that, one will always be behind the proverbial 8 ball. To get ahead as a coach, one needs to be able to create talent. And if one has the belief that there is talent all around, that…
People have this misperception that when they do art, they are doing things like painting a picture, but there is more to art than the arts. For everything you do is art, for art is an expression of oneself, and in whatever one undertakes, one expresses themselves in doing that. So as a coach, to…
When putting together sports team, ultimately what one is aiming at doing is creating quality teams, quality players and to play quality sport. And as much as people say that it’s all about the participation, secretly, deep down, they want to win and the way to increase the chances of winning is in creating quality…
The traditional model of a leader that is presented to us is one of someone in a perceived position of authority who can control people and also inspire them by what they do and say, though that has now become an outdated form of leadership, for a different model of being a true leader is…
If one wants to become a better coach, or a teacher in any form, one thing that needs to be done is to begin the process of Learning about Learning. And a question to really ask is, how many sports courses actually cover the topic of Learning? For to begin learning about Learning, one must…
The secret to any learning is in expanding your knowledge and knowing more information, but the question to ask is, why is knowing more information important. In knowing more information, patterns begin to emerge and through those patterns, principles can begun to be understood and learned. And that’s it, because through understanding principles the ride…
In the sports world, everyone is grasping with wanting to improve and get better and they look for many ways to do it, but until one starts looking at principles, you’ll never get to the true heart of how things really work and thus how to get true improvement. Principles are simply a guideline of…
If anyone wants to read an excellent book, one can do no better than reading Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. In it he explores the conditions that are associated with creating more ideas and good ideas and the common link between it all connection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ce3Vs0Ec0 And it’s through the collision of connection…
People have an inherent curiosity for learning and as we get older, unless we hold onto that inherent curiosity, the learning process fades and this is the challenge for anyone who coaches is in coaching players to learn. You want to tap back into this inherent curiosity and kick start the learning process, regardless of…
One of the most fascinating things I find about what I am doing is how my questions evolve over time, especially to do around the coaching concept. And it’s only by doing stuff that the questions evolve out of what I’m doing and as I gain more knowledge, the questions evolve even further. The original…
