We keep hearing how A.I is this great self-learning machine, but is it, for one keeps hearing these stories how humans are having to program A.I to learn. There was an accident involving a self-driving car that crashed into a truck and it turned out that the A.I couldn’t distinguish between the blue sky and…
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,…
With all the censoring that You Tube has been up to lately, what they have done has been to turn finding information into a treasure hunt and its become a great sport to play, and by turning this finding information into a treasure hunt, it’s making the censored information one finds more valid. You Tube…
I don’t know about anyone else, but social media bores the heck out me. I’ve got to much other stuff to do than to keep checking up on what others have been doing every 5 minutes, I’ve got a life to live and I can’t be bothered wasting it. Don’t get me wrong, social media…
In 1945 in Egypt, a discovery was made at a place called Nag Hammadi of earthen jars with 50 texts in them and they have since become known as the Nag Hammadi Texts. If one hasn’t heard of the Nag Hammadi Texts, it’s not surprising for the information that it contains knocks the official doctrine…
From time to time I receive interesting articles in my email and the other day I got one from Lee Smith Coaching and it was an article by Paul Cammarata on player development over merely coaching to win. https://leesmith.co.nz/win-paul-cammarata/ Obviously the article deals with junior sport and the age old debate of winning over player…
We keep hearing a lot about artificial intelligence, and like anything it is a system of some sort, and one thing one learns is that every system has a weakness that can be exploited, which begs the question, can A.I be hacked and manipulated? And of course, if one asks the question if A.I can…
From advertisers, to magicians and mentalists, coaches and authority figures, they’re all into mind hacking the human brain, for whether they have something to sell, to take from you, or to get you do something, this mind hacking of the human brain is going on all of the time. Robbins Magic Of Consciousness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtIhN4AWLX0 Defcon…
There are 2 main drivers of the world economy and they are not what most people would thing. For 2 main drivers of the World Economy are: War Child Abuse and human trafficking For when one begins to hear of the trillions of dollars that is spent each year on military and their activities and…
One of the things that a modern coach becomes very proactive on is in building and maintaining the Learning Environment. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Learning-Environment.pdf And there are three aspects in being proactive in building and maintain the learning environment, with them being: Framing Reinforcement Reminders Where: Framing is the Initial Outline that one does upon meeting the team…
Why do people find curiosity so strange? Almost like an anomaly, whereas curiosity is the basis of being human, and to deny curiosity, is to deny one’s most important learning tool. You remove the curiosity, you remove the learning And if people are telling you to stop being so curious, they are effectively telling you…
The art of communicating is in getting one’s message across succinctly, using as few words as possible, though creating a picture in people’s mind that they easily remember. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Good-Coaches-Philosophy.pdf http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Modern-Coaching-Poster.pdf And the best coaches are masters at getting their message across succinctly Bob Paisley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudo1NLICRw With a couple of Bob Paisley sayings being: “There’s not…
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…
If you’ve ever been a coach of players, you’ll know from first hand experience how tiresome it is if you have to keep prodding players along in getting them to expand their knowledge, though when players become explorers of information themselves, then the dynamics of coaching changes. Because Coaching is about creating explorers of your…
If you’ve never heard of the name Robert Schoch before, don’t be surprised, because you’ll never see it mentioned in the mainstream media. Part of the reason is that Robert Schoch was the individual who originally said that the Sphinx in Egypt was much older than was previously thought, and of course this went against…
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…
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 is a changing face of coaching going on at the moment and viewing platforms like youtube are right at the forefront of this changing face, mainly for the reason that players can go onto places like youtube and learn any skill that they want to associated with their sport, so the coach is no…
