Ridiculous running times have been achieved this year with world records being broken in the men’s 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters and half marathon distances. And these records have been set in such a short space of time, with the current records now standing at: 5,000 Meters – 12 min 35.37 secs 10,000 Meters – 26…
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…
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…
Mentalists and Magicians do some amazing tricks, and we as coaches can learn a lot from them, for their understanding of the human mind, psyche and behaviour are what we as coaches need to know. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve learnt a lot about sports coaching from Occultists, Social Engineers, Magicians, Mentalists…
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…
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…
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…
