Super sayings, or quotes are really just a summary of someone’s works, and some quotes are better than other, and we all like quotes, so the following few pertain to the sporting realm and a couple to the working of this reality. For when it comes to coaching and playing sport: The Core Is King…
Core blimey, all of this information can become overwhelming, it’s no wonder people don’t really look at things in depth, for there are so many corridors and cul-de-sacs, that it seems more like a labyrinth than any thing else. Inside The Labyrinth Documentary (The Making Of Labyrinth) 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFQCg0rpBK8 So let’s bypass the Labyrinth altogether…
Beginning, it’s always there in one form or another, and the coaching process is no different, though at the moment we are all thrown into the middle when we start, and it’s no wonder people flounder around for a long time before they begin to come to grips with the process. So for those just…
Poster time again. I wasn’t going to do a poster for the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching, though when I looked at it, it’s too important part of the puzzle to leave out. For the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching is: 90% of Coaching Sport is Fitness, Core Skills, Playing Structure and Understanding People and…
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…
Underpinning is normally something which sits underneath everything and is the support foundation to what is going on. The Underpinning Process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-wcnkAkn0 And so it is with the Ninety Ninety Rule of Playing Sport, for the one aspect that underpins everything is one word, that being: Discipline And that is: Discipline to work on one’s…
Helping others, there are many ways of doing this, and helping others is different ways for different people, for the one size fits all model rarely works in practice, for we are all at different levels of where we are. And sometimes we fall down and we need a help from others that gets us…
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…
Advantage, set, match – that’s a wrap, and when it comes to the music industry, nowhere is creative talent taken more advantage of is within the music industry. And two creative bands with very sad stories of being taking advantage of were The Small Faces and Badfinger. Without Walls – The Small Faces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDNFMyvYS_o Badfinger…
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…
Silent, can you hear the noise, nope, neither can I. There’s a set of skills in sport which are totally ignored, forgotten, yet they play a big part within the game process. And these so called silent skills are simply these: Discipline Game Talk – (Communication) Game Sense Reading the Play Playing To A Team…
Repetition – all players love that word – not, though repetition like the word fun, can have many different meanings as there are people. We all recognize that repetition is a big part of the coaching process, and we also know that if we do the same drills and exercises over and over again, that that sort of repetition is…
Motivation for players to improve is one of the biggest topics and task a coach will ever face, yet player motivation for improving is one of the least understood topics around, yet at it’s heart is some basic fundamentals to help. And over the years, one comes across some interesting material, which helps one to…
Constructing something always requires an understanding of what one is doing, yet until someone starts, that understanding can not be acquired. Hence what everyone needs to know is that all coaching is trial and error, and it doesn’t matter how scientific one becomes, at it’s heart is all trial and error, for some of the…
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…
Principled thinking is missing from a lot of what we do, mainly because we aren’t taught or shown how to do it. Yet when one begins working to principles, things become simpler over time, and the amount of paper work that one does, becomes less and less. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Coaching-Principles-Poster.pdf http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Playing-Principles-Poster.pdf And being principled in coaching, allows…
Balancing things in life is always an on going process, and so it is in balancing what one does with the coaching process. If coaching, and someone comes up to you and asks, have you got any drills and exercises that I can do? What does one say? I always go yep, plenty of drills,…
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…
Building things always begins with the first thing that you do. That may sound really obvious, though until one starts, nothing gets done. And the real question is, where does one start? And the simple answer is, right where you are. And when it comes to sport, building a team fundamentally revolves around three things:…
