Practical, it certainly helps if it is, for there is nothing worse than reading something and coming away going, what was that all about. For the hardest thing about writing is being able to put something out there that others can easily understand. And the biggest things one discovers when writing about coaching is, where…
Personality, there are many different ones out there for the number of people that there are, and it can be like undoing a combination lock without having the code when it comes to understanding others. For like any combination locks, some are easier to open: Fingerprint Safe Jiggled Open – Lock Picking Lawyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg9k12aTR5o Others…
Coaching books are a dime a dozen, though rarely do they present the full picture, to do that, one has to do a lot of reading, on a lot of different material. So no coaching books have the magic bullets, they have great ideas and concepts, but there’s never a one size fits all, and…
Core blimey, all of this information can become overwhelming, it’s no wonder people don’t really look at things in depth, for there are so many corridors and cul-de-sacs, that it seems more like a labyrinth than any thing else. Inside The Labyrinth Documentary (The Making Of Labyrinth) 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFQCg0rpBK8 So let’s bypass the Labyrinth altogether…
Beginning, it’s always there in one form or another, and the coaching process is no different, though at the moment we are all thrown into the middle when we start, and it’s no wonder people flounder around for a long time before they begin to come to grips with the process. So for those just…
Basic is the very foundation of which something built upon, and the basic idea of what’s been worked on over the years is to provide a foundation for anyone wanting to get into coaching, for what ever reason. For the basic excuse used most about not coaching are generally two, with them being: “I don’t…
Poster time again. I wasn’t going to do a poster for the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching, though when I looked at it, it’s too important part of the puzzle to leave out. For the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching is: 90% of Coaching Sport is Fitness, Core Skills, Playing Structure and Understanding People and…
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…
Underpinning is normally something which sits underneath everything and is the support foundation to what is going on. The Underpinning Process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-wcnkAkn0 And so it is with the Ninety Ninety Rule of Playing Sport, for the one aspect that underpins everything is one word, that being: Discipline And that is: Discipline to work on one’s…
Exploring coaching further, it would be fair to say up until now, isn’t really that accessible for people, but I’m starting to think now, with the Ninety Ninety Rule of Coaching, as it disseminates further and further afield, will give people a basic structure for them to get started. And as a quick reminder, here…
Helping others, there are many ways of doing this, and helping others is different ways for different people, for the one size fits all model rarely works in practice, for we are all at different levels of where we are. And sometimes we fall down and we need a help from others that gets us…
Conditioning of human behaviour has been going on for Millennia, though an interesting period happened in the 20th century, which took the study of human behaviour conditioning further, in which the likes will not be repeated in such obvious fashion. Some of the most obvious and important research were the following, and names such as…
Alchemical Process, or Alchemy, is normally associated with the Esoteric or Occulted aspects of this reality, and yet when one begins to look at Alchemy properly, it is actually a day to day part of our lives, especially if we are going through a change to improve ourselves and understand ourselves better. So let’s start…
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…
Ninety mile beach in New Zealand is not ninety miles long, it’s somewhere round about 88 km’s, but what the heck, and when it comes to sports coaching, the figure of ninety begins to surface in an interesting way. For when one begins to look at the core aspect of sports coaching, 4 components appear…
Balancing Act, that’s what coaching is about, some years it works for you, others it doesn’t, and this is why it takes a number of years to become a really good coach, for we have to learn to balance the skills, techniques and tactics side of coaching and balancing it with the people skills side…
Evolving, it’s something everything does at some stage or another, and even for the chocolate fish challenge I run for the junior teams I take. http://beawinningcoach.com/?s=chocolate+fish For the whole coaching process is trial and error as one builds towards the picture that they’ve created in their mind. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Be-A-Winning-Coach-Practical-Coaching-Poster.pdf The reason why things keep evolving is that…
Chirping Bird Syndrome – what the heck is that? Anyone who has coached a children’s sports team will have had the pleasure to deal with it at some stage. Chirping Bird Syndrome is that time when children want your attention and they constantly call out your name looking to get your attention, in other words, if…
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…
Soccermatics is a book very similar to Moneyball, in which both are about statistics and how they apply to sports. Both Soccermatics and Moneyball are well worth the read for they shine a different light on the sports that they highlight, and show how statistics, when used in the right way, can enhance what one does….
