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…
Unusual, well it depends on the angle that one looks at it, for what can seem and appear to be unusual to one person, to another is just another day at the office. It’s Not Unusual – Tom Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagjPyNMu9Q And the following are three sports, that on the surface appear to be unusual, though…
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…
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…
Running with Sherman is a book about a rescue donkey and training it for burro racing, well no, it’s way more than that, it’s a book about human and animal interaction and how each can help each other in surprising ways. Running With Sherman https://www.bookdepository.com/Running-with-Sherman/9781781258279 Christopher McDougall Is Born To Run With A Donkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Gxy4sdV-Q…
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…
Grass Roots development has always been an issue when it comes to any national sporting scene, and many, many countries and sports has looked into and it has always been put into that too hard basket. But what if in developing grass roots, it come from the bottom up rather than being implemented from the…
Time, what is it, no one really knows, though realistically it is the distance between two point, for if one didn’t have a distance, there would be no time. For time is realistically an abstract construct of main to keep a measure of things, and with all of the goings on of the current times,…
Completing a circle of life, for what can at first seem like a disaster, in hindsight further down the road, one can look back and see it as the greatest thing that could have happened. And with coming to understand Bio-Terrain and the Immune System better, it feels like I’ve completed some sort of journey,…
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…
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…
