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…
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…
Speeding up, well as one gets older, that’s all that time seems to do, but a question that comes to mind is, how does one go about speeding up the learning and improvement process, because as a coach, one may only have some players for 1 to 2 years. So one starts distilling things down…
Hacking, when people hear that word it brings up a lot of negative connotations, but is it really that bad, ultimately it all depends on the intent. For when one looks at it: Mentalists and Magicians are hackers Social Engineers are hackers Locksmiths are hackers Teachers are hackers Why not Sports Coaches? How To Become…
Wonderful, wonderful world that we live within and the exploration that can be undertaken, both within this physical realm and mental plane, in this multitude is staggering beyond belief. Wonderful – Everclear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfgAbFY4CA For with the ease of access to information, with a little bit of work, one can begin to find out many things,…
Magical, when things are done well, it almost seems like it, and some of the greatest magical illusions use some of the simplest of techniques. And the following clip is simple magic tricks done with a pen using simple techniques when seen from behind, though appear magical when the techniques are hidden. 12 Pen Tricks…
Getting ahead, well we all want to do that, though the issue really is, how does one get ahead, especially when it comes to coaching. One way of getting ahead of the curve is in having a focus on the core skills and techniques and in understanding people, for those two things are at the…
Philosophical, we all get it from time to time, but what if in our approach to coaching we took a philosophical approach, for actually the word doesn’t mean what we think it means, for it’s not actually a case of pondering. For a meaning of the word philosophical is – Learned, Skilled In Learning Aahh,…
Important, everything is to a certain degree, though when we start looking at some complex topics we can all get lost amongst all of the information overload that we experience, especially in this current age, and when one starts to look at some interesting stuff, confusing can quickly set in. So the following are two…
Learning about Discernment, first one needs to know the meaning of the word and can be summed up as follows: Discernment – Keenness of intellectual perception, insight, acuteness of judgment Which seems to be something which a lot of people are missing, or have even been trained out of. For discernment is not about jumping…
Take the long way home, a great song by the 70’s group Supertramp, and I’m always fascinated by the ideas that people start with and the product they end up with, for the majority of the time the two are not the same. Take The Long Way Home – Supertramp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYfeMMeNVg It’s a bit like…
