Playing Zone is an interesting topic to begin to explore, and at the beginning, it can seem that there is very little information out there about it, though like anything, there is more than one would think. And the following few books are interesting reads into the topic of the Playing Zone. In The Zone…
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…
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…
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,…
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:…
Iceberg on the horizon, and if one sees one, you will know that 7/8ths of the iceberg will be underwater. The Beauty Of Icebergs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3NbohN_nbk And like icebergs, teams comes in all shapes and sizes, and generally the important things don’t get seen from a coaching perspective, for when watching a coaching session, everyone generally focuses…
Juggling is something we do in our lives naturally, for we all have many things on the go, and if we didn’t know how to organise ourselves, all the balls that we have in the air, would fall to the ground. And it’s always interesting watching people juggling different objects and the timing that they…
Today, merely coaching the skills, techniques and tactics isn’t enough when one gets into sports coaching, yet it is the main focus of what we do, and those that do branch out into other areas become better sports coaches for doing so. Sports Coaching today has become about creating an environment where the players, athletes…
The best thing about starting with an unknown is in solving problem, and so it is with coaching, for if one wants to solve Coachings engagement problem, one has to create a self-organising culture It appears that the way one goes about establishing a self-organising culture is to work to 2 simple steps, they being:…
One of the most interesting aspects of the coaching process is in working out the steps one takes, and the further one develops in the coaching process what one comes to realise, is that there are steps within the steps which enables the coaching process to happen. So what do I really mean by this…
Coaching has got 2 parts to it, and we generally ignore the most important of the 2 parts to the detriment of the coaching process. Most will be well versed in one of the parts of the process, that of teaching the skills, techniques and tactics of one’s sport, though it is the other part,…
As one continues on with their coaching development, what becomes very apparent is how dynamic the process becomes. For what seemed to be important at the start, can start to develop less and less importance as time goes on. But ultimately it comes down to what one wants to achieve with what they are doing…
If one wants to do well as a sports coach, ultimately it is about developing dynamic players who have the discipline to play a passing game. And one of the influences in developing what I do, was in watching the Liverpool Football team through the late 70’s and early 80’s. Liverpool Team in the 70’s…
Most, as they get older and older, tend to reduce their ability of learning new skills and techniques, though as we know, things don’t stop moving. So even as one gets older, there is always the time to upgrade and learn new skills. For example, 2 of the skills I’m working for field hockey are:…
In searching for ideas, I spend time searching Youtube for coaching videos, and the reason why I search for these coaching videos, is not to copy them persay, but to gather ideas to enhance drills and games that we come up with. So the following is a few coaching videos, which people may find of…
One satisfaction of coaching is in inventing and coming up with one’s own training drills and practices to help solve issues that happen on the field and seeing those issued resolve themselves by the drills and exercises that one come up with. One might go, I could never come up with my own training drills,…
When ever we play golf, we always have a selection of golf clubs that we choose, and depending on the situation that we are in, will depend on which of the golf clubs that we will use. PGA Golf lesson – The 3 Club System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxr7QAMW-k Golf clubs are basically grouped into 4 types, they…
For those interested in the sporting side of what I put out, today I have got a brand new poster called, Good Coaches Philosophy, that has just gone up on the website, and now the total number of posters done adds up to 44. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Good-Coaches-Philosophy.pdf And as most will realise by now that this isn’t…
If what ever I’m doing, I’m always making adjustments, but not adjustments for the sake of making them, but adjustments for making things better and easier. And so it is with the chocolate fish challenge that I do with the younger team that I coach, http://beawinningcoach.com/chocolate-fish-challenge/ For not only is it a tool that the…
