Building skill isn’t the only thing coaches build into their players, for without building in character, one will have no true foundation to work from. Now don’t confuse personality with character, for character encompasses and can be summed up in two simple words: Discipline Commitment That’s it. Defining And Building Character: Jocko Willink And Capt…
Teddy Atlas is a legend in boxing circles and goes back to the days of Cus D’Amato, a legend in his own right. Now boxing may not be everyone’s cup of tea as a sport, though there is a lot that everyone can learn from the sport of boxing, and as usual, it is from…
Observe things for long enough and patterns begin to emerge, and observe things even longer and sometimes big ideas begin to emerge and evolve, and so it is in being able to observe this reality, and the things that go on in this world that things begin to make a lot more sense. And ritual…
Book recommendations can come at a dime a dozen, for some books, one just wants to share with others, for all books have one or two main ideas that have the potential to change what you do, or change one’s comprehension. I’ve just recently finished a book called strive, about the struggle one comes across…
Place your bets, roll up, roll up – what’s the shape of this thing we live within or upon, is it round, flat, square or toroidal, ultimately who cares. It’s all a construct to conquer and divide. For this place that we live, it is what it is, and the shape changes depending on the…
Controlling, some people take it to the extremes where they want to control every aspect of what the people around them do, and what normally happens, it all falls apart in the end. For this world can seem really mad at times and for the rest, makes little to no sense at all, and to…
Brick and mortar are used for building buildings, but if one wants to become a true learner, one needs to become like a sponge for if one puts a sponge into a pool of water, it sucks it up, if one puts a brick into a pool of water, it just gets wet. And it…
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…
Analogy and metaphor are good ways to get across ideas and concepts, for everyone remembers a picture or a story used to express an ideas, they never remember the explanation. Little Book Of Talent # Tip 21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0JtjasYCU Of course, analogy and metaphor plays to the strength of the right side of the brain, because…
One thing to never lose is one’s child like curiosity and sense of wonder, for without those two things, all one ever do’s is bow to authority type figures, who may not have ones best interest at heart. One – U2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-ACkYmdc4 For a curious mind is the doorway to exploration and opening things up…
Player centered learning is definitely a different beast when it comes to coaching, though it is the way that coaching has been morphing into over the last 10 to 15 years, and it is those that adapt to it the best are the ones who are going to improve the most. For player centered learning…
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…
Running with Sherman is a book about a rescue donkey and training it for burro racing, well no, it’s way more than that, it’s a book about human and animal interaction and how each can help each other in surprising ways. Running With Sherman https://www.bookdepository.com/Running-with-Sherman/9781781258279 Christopher McDougall Is Born To Run With A Donkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Gxy4sdV-Q…
Puzzle solving, we all can do it, though few of us really exercise the puzzle solving ability that we all have within. For life is ultimately one big puzzle solving process, and until we begin to realize that, what life and who we really are will always remain a mystery. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Problem-solving-Poster.pdf And it doesn’t matter…
Researching stuff is way, way more better than watching TV, especially nowadays, for most things running on TV is generally about the pushing of an agenda and the molding of society. I’m not saying that that didn’t happen in the past, but now a days, it has become much more blatant and obvious. So what…
Magical, when things goes the way that it was planned on the sports field, nothing beats it, and as we know by now, there is more to coaching than merely the skills, drills and tactics. How one manipulates the reality around them, becomes a big part of the equation. For coming to a greater understanding…
Ten to fourteen practices a year is all one has for working with junior teams in a typical season, so the question is, how does one make most use of that time? 24 Hours From Tulsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugy2rkSM7g For at the end of the day, there is only so much that one can do in that…
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…
