When it comes to sport, anyone can analyse tactics of any team, even the person in the stands with only a limited knowledge of the sport that they are playing, though what most people do not realise is that there are two main aspects when you come to analyse tactics of any team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXJsEtIQOHY For…
The are many ways to view something, but until one can take a step back, they will never see the big picture. And so it is with sport, where most are tied up in the details, that the big picture slips away. How to see the big picture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B5LwqNCbUw The reason why understanding the big…
Whenever one plays team sport, when it comes to performing on the field, there are three aspects that provide the beating heart for that performance, and one aspect that will destroy it. And the three things that constitutes the beating heart, as usual aren’t complicated, though the more you know about them and implement that…
If you’ve ever been involved in coaching junior sport, at some stage you come up against the player of the day scenario, and if you do it long enough, you begin to realise it’s a system that the kids see through and doesn’t help with their development at all, so I’ve totally gone away from…
When you truly sit down and look at the sporting skills of anything that’s done, you can begin to group the types of sporting skills into four areas, with 3 of these groupings being very pertinent in becoming a master coach. And the four types of sporting skills are simply these: Generic Skills Platform Skills…
Whenever you get into maths and specifically physics, you always learn about pivot points and levers and with the right length of lever on the appropriate pivot point then any object becomes easier to shift. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTa2EFd3JF0 It’s the same with sport, both coaching and playing have their own pivot points and levers and when applied,…
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…
Expanding on the concept for dinner guests, this time I would like to have a curry night and sit round discussing sport and the 5 people I would invite would be Arthur Lydiard, Bob Paisley, Daniel Coyle, Rasmus Ankersen and Mathew Syed. The first two gentleman’s records speak for themselves, because in their discussing sport…
At the moment the world is in a state of flux, and nowhere is this more evident than in the sports world and the future coach is going to be a facilitator in their approach to get the best out of their players, in other words, they are going to become a facilitator coach. With…
When you truly look into the coaching process, what begins to emerge is 6 six key factors that goes into creating a learning environment. These key factors do not only apply to sport, they apply to any aspect of life in general with the 6 key factors being these: Open Curious Minds High Standards Praise…
To keep going forward in whatever you do, you’ve got to develop a creative coaching concept, because you have to understand the body mind connection, for merely understanding the skills, techniques and tactics and how you put together practices is not enough. For the mind plays a bigger part in creative coaching for if you…
When you first get your team together, all the Learners & Improvers, Needy People and Psychophic People will all be shuffled together like a well-used pack of cards. And as a coach, the first thing you must do, in cultivating curious minds, you must figurative sort out the pack of cards into the black colours,…
Ultimately, everything we do is about the creative process and the finished product is what people will admire, but the creative process is far more fascinating. I don’t know about anyone else but I just love watching the behind the scenes on the DVD’s and even down to listening to the director’s commentary for that…
In my time of bringing together all this information, I’ve done a lot of reading from a lot of sources and from a variety of people which takes you on a journey of the mind for any reading will do this. The best books I’ve found which explains things the best are generally: Smaller Books…
If you want to quickly understand an individual, first look at their behaviour. Are they a: Learner & Improver Needy People Psychopathic Mind For that will give you a quick gauge on who they are. Then look at the: Ego Personalities To understand their nuances and idiosyncrasies to gain a greater depth of understanding because:…
The following are some principles and concepts I work to in my approach to sport. Some may apply to what you do yourself, some may not. The great sporting fallacy is that everyone who plays sport wants to learn, improve and get better There are two types of people who play sport, they being the…
A crucial aspect in coaching, and in fact anything in life, is in finding your concept to work from and to. But it’s a little explored area and yet is such an important part of the process, for once you have your concept everything you do and work towards stems from it. And there are…
If you’ve followed my writings for a while, you’ll notice I spend very little time on the tactics of sport, and the answer is very simple, in reality there isn’t that many tactics. So the following is a quick summary: When you get the ball you are going to do one of either 3 things:…
When looking at the different areas we’ve been discussing about sport and you start looking at the percentage that they make up in the coaching process an interesting picture begins to emerge. For the breakdown of approximate percentages work like this: Concept – 2% Behaviours – 40% Core Key Skills – 10% Keys – 40%…
Because the mind is a big component of our reality, and thus what we think effects our perception, two people can live in the same place but how they perceive it will be different. Sport is a great example of this, because: You can have two coaches from the same area, one will perceive little…
