Startled Rabbits, and they’re off, we see it on the sports field time and time again. Someone gets the ball, they run with it, they get tackled, turn the ball over, someone in the opposition gets the ball, runs with it, gets tackled, turns the ball over, and like startled rabbits, it just continues over…
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…
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…
What is rarely understood about a playing season is that it can be broken down into 3 distinct parts, and unless one starts to understand these different stages of the playing season, one won’t really get an idea of constructing their season for making effect. For the preparation for the start of the season is…
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,…
I’m always fascinated watching teams warm up and what they go through and what they do, and sometimes you ask yourself, are they doing a warm up or are they doing a training drill? For the clue of warming up is in the word: Warm Up I know that everybody will be different in their…
There are many ways that one can become a better coach, though one of the areas that is just beginning to open up and people are beginning to take more notice of, is in the understanding of people and their behaviours, and up until about the last 5 years, it would be fair to say,…
When one begins looking into what makes us tick as people, what you find out is that there have been billions upon billions of dollars done on research, yet we see very little of this evidence and result of this in the public domain, mainly because it’s been used to get us to buy more…
I’ve been looking at why teams, organisations and regions keep being mediocre and there are three themes that keep reoccurring. They are: Inflated Ego Fixed mindset Player power An ego, everyone has one, it depends on how you direct it. You can either have an inflated ego or defer it to something else. A fixed…
When working with your side one of the biggest things you have to do is to work out if the senior player power base is for you as a coach or against you? Whether you like it or not, it’s the senior players of the side who rule the team. If you pick on talent…
How often do you see sides when good players leave and the team start to play better? Over the years you see a team that has underperformed and then for whatever reason there is a clean out of most of the good players. The players that are left start performing and working as a team….
We’ve all seen it or come across it at some stage, where the players are dictating the terms, in other words the monkey is in charge of the organ grinder. There are many reasons for player power, though at its heart is a player’s unwillingness to learn and so it becomes a battle of wills….
