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…
Puzzles, mysteries and problem solving, it’s what our world revolves around, and not all puzzles, mysteries and problem solving is the same. And one always comes across interesting stuff on YouTube around this stuff, and some of it can become addictive and compulsive viewing, with two such people exercising their brains being: Decoded Fast: Champ…
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…
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…
Shine a light, or begin to learn about things unknown and it is amazing what one will begin to learn. The Midnight Special – CCR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00eJSQimIk When I began this journey many years ago, there were many things that one did not know, though as one has shine their light of curiosity onto topics that were…
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…
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…
Trial and error, we all hate making mistakes and not getting things right, though when one really begins looking at it, all sports coaching really is, is a process of trial and error. And this is why having an overall picture in one’s mind become essential, for the point the one is aiming for, over…
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:…
Rectifying any issue or problems is fraught with many sticking points, for the same issue can normally be rectified many different ways. One only has to look at something like Plantar Fasciitis, which for those unaware is a pain issue with the sole of the foot. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Problem-solving-Poster.pdf Most in rectifying this issue, would look to…
Sandbars always cause problems for people navigating certain water ways, for they constantly shift, and unless one can read the ripples on the water, one will beach themselves upon the sandbars hidden underneath. And in a way, that’s a bit like coaching, or working with any group of people, for as people come and go,…
Longitude was always a problem in the past for the navigators of this world, for without it in companionship with lattitude, they could end up anywhere in this world, and generally it was on the rocks. And an interesting book I read many years ago was Longitude by Dava Sobel, which was about John Harrison…
Joys come in many different ways, and one of the joys of writing these blogs and doing what one does, is that it takes me into areas and information that one wouldn’t normally go to, and one ends up listening to people one wouldn’t normally come across. The whole process is fascinating, especially the information that…
Deprogramming or waking up to the reality that surrounds us is one of the hardest things we can initially do. For the world that is presented to us can seem to be a comfortable place, but the system we’re in, being a zero sum game, eventually like Monopoly, everyone loses to the bankers. Our Monetary…
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…
Great things come in surprising packages, and none more in teaching skills. For realistically, every moment is a teaching opportunity and to use the skills that one has and has accumulated over the years and adapting them to the situation that one is in. For sometimes the solution is the never the most obvious, and the…
Teachers come in many shapes and forms and some of the most knowledgeable teachers are not within the official educational system. And when one starts delving into the world of Occulted Knowledge, there aren’t too many available teachers, though with the advent of the internet, the teachers of this knowledge have become much easier to find….
Challenges and goals are a main stay of life, living and truly being alive, for if one doesn’t have them, one will get bored, and the same would be true with A.I. For we know some of the challenges that the creators of A.I have shown it can do, mainly on an intellectual level, such as the…
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…
