Alchemical Process, or Alchemy, is normally associated with the Esoteric or Occulted aspects of this reality, and yet when one begins to look at Alchemy properly, it is actually a day to day part of our lives, especially if we are going through a change to improve ourselves and understand ourselves better. So let’s start…
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…
Evolving, it’s something everything does at some stage or another, and even for the chocolate fish challenge I run for the junior teams I take. http://beawinningcoach.com/?s=chocolate+fish For the whole coaching process is trial and error as one builds towards the picture that they’ve created in their mind. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Be-A-Winning-Coach-Practical-Coaching-Poster.pdf The reason why things keep evolving is that…
Random questions, or observations, can lead to greater insights and understanding, and of course most people shy away from these types of things, though the more random things one asks or looks at, the better one gets at doing it and the more insightful questions one can ask. Accidental Inventions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1brxn1rNs The other day I…
Big Picture Thinking is not done by enough people, it’s plain to see, mainly because we’re not taught how to do it, and yet it is only through big picture thinking, that the details we are presented with begin to make any sense. The new poster on the website, Practical Coaching, is an example of…
Forming something from nothing, as in the case of a sculpture, is fascinating to watch and do, and generally when they are working, they are working from a picture which they had formed in their heads. Creature Bust Sculpting Time lapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRn6YP3ljOg And like sculpting, to begin understanding the bigger picture, one must take the details and…
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…
Basis forms the foundation of anything, and when one begins to explore this reality to any depth, what becomes very abundant is that the Imagination is at the basis of all creation. A lot of people when they learn this and begin explaining it’s use for bringing into being material things for themselves, like cars,…
Eighty percent rule plays a big part in the functioning of our society, and it is no different when it comes to sports coaching. For the eighty percent rule is basically that 20% of your customers, spend 80% of the money, or 20% of the people will do eighty percent of the work. It’s a figure…
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,…
Longitude was always a problem in the past for the navigators of this world, for without it in companionship with lattitude, they could end up anywhere in this world, and generally it was on the rocks. And an interesting book I read many years ago was Longitude by Dava Sobel, which was about John Harrison…
Foundation Stones are fundamental to the coaching process, for they are the first stone that is put in place, and it’s just the same when it comes to coaching sport, for without a proper base, no building can truly start. Laying The Stone Foundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxGz9TuXek So when it comes to sport, the foundation of coaching consists…
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 &…
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…
What is rarely understood about a playing season is that it can be broken down into 3 distinct parts, and unless one starts to understand these different stages of the playing season, one won’t really get an idea of constructing their season for making effect. For the preparation for the start of the season is…
If one listens to what others are saying, one can always pick up wise words from others who have already covered the ground that one wishes to cover, and in sport, listening to other coaches is a vital component in improving, for one will always pick up wise words for those who are successful. The…
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…
From time to time I receive interesting articles in my email and the other day I got one from Lee Smith Coaching and it was an article by Paul Cammarata on player development over merely coaching to win. https://leesmith.co.nz/win-paul-cammarata/ Obviously the article deals with junior sport and the age old debate of winning over player…
If you’ve ever been a coach of players, you’ll know from first hand experience how tiresome it is if you have to keep prodding players along in getting them to expand their knowledge, though when players become explorers of information themselves, then the dynamics of coaching changes. Because Coaching is about creating explorers of your…
