Teddy Atlas is a legend in boxing circles and goes back to the days of Cus D’Amato, a legend in his own right. Now boxing may not be everyone’s cup of tea as a sport, though there is a lot that everyone can learn from the sport of boxing, and as usual, it is from…
Book recommendations can come at a dime a dozen, for some books, one just wants to share with others, for all books have one or two main ideas that have the potential to change what you do, or change one’s comprehension. I’ve just recently finished a book called strive, about the struggle one comes across…
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…
Brick and mortar are used for building buildings, but if one wants to become a true learner, one needs to become like a sponge for if one puts a sponge into a pool of water, it sucks it up, if one puts a brick into a pool of water, it just gets wet. And it…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Simple technique changes can have great effects, going from making a hard job to simple, from having trouble executing a skill, to creating more power in what one does. And no where is this use of simple techniques more prevalent than in doing magic tricks and illusions, for some of the greatest magic tricks use…
Getting ahead, well we all want to do that, though the issue really is, how does one get ahead, especially when it comes to coaching. One way of getting ahead of the curve is in having a focus on the core skills and techniques and in understanding people, for those two things are at the…
Philosophical, we all get it from time to time, but what if in our approach to coaching we took a philosophical approach, for actually the word doesn’t mean what we think it means, for it’s not actually a case of pondering. For a meaning of the word philosophical is – Learned, Skilled In Learning Aahh,…
Learning about Discernment, first one needs to know the meaning of the word and can be summed up as follows: Discernment – Keenness of intellectual perception, insight, acuteness of judgment Which seems to be something which a lot of people are missing, or have even been trained out of. For discernment is not about jumping…
Interesting, especially at the moment with all the effort being put in against information which goes counter to the “official narrative”, but that’s not what this entry is about. It’s actually about the word “fun” and how it’s such a loaded term, for if you ask people what the word fun means, one will get…
Distilled Essence is something that has been concentrated down from an abundance of material by pulling out the essence of that material, until one has a concentrate left. How To Steam Distill Essential Oils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBtuUUTbTyw And it’s the same with sport, there is so much information out there, where does one start? And in the…
Within a core there is always a seed, and hence why it is always important as coaches, or anything that one does, to have a focus on the core skills and techniques, for within that core is the seed to playing well. With that sentence is pretty much today’s blog, though let’s have a look…
Books are a dime a dozen, and some of the books that I find interesting are those ones about the quirky anomalies that effect our lives on a day to day basis. And the following selection of books are just a taster of how our reality is effected by things we don’t even think about…
