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….
Big Picture Thinking is not done by enough people, it’s plain to see, mainly because we’re not taught how to do it, and yet it is only through big picture thinking, that the details we are presented with begin to make any sense. The new poster on the website, Practical Coaching, is an example of…
Motivation for players to improve is one of the biggest topics and task a coach will ever face, yet player motivation for improving is one of the least understood topics around, yet at it’s heart is some basic fundamentals to help. And over the years, one comes across some interesting material, which helps one to…
Constructing something always requires an understanding of what one is doing, yet until someone starts, that understanding can not be acquired. Hence what everyone needs to know is that all coaching is trial and error, and it doesn’t matter how scientific one becomes, at it’s heart is all trial and error, for some of the…
Structured practices creates flexibility, hhmm – sounds a bit like an oxymoron, for how could something that is structured, create flexibility? It isn’t as contradictory as it sounds, for the structure isn’t in being dogmatic about sticking to things, it’s about having a framework, or structure, to build one’s practices around. And depending on the…
Principled thinking is missing from a lot of what we do, mainly because we aren’t taught or shown how to do it. Yet when one begins working to principles, things become simpler over time, and the amount of paper work that one does, becomes less and less. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Coaching-Principles-Poster.pdf http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Playing-Principles-Poster.pdf And being principled in coaching, allows…
Balancing things in life is always an on going process, and so it is in balancing what one does with the coaching process. If coaching, and someone comes up to you and asks, have you got any drills and exercises that I can do? What does one say? I always go yep, plenty of drills,…
Base is an important aspect to anything that one does, for with a good and sound base set, in other words, a solid foundation, better structures can be built. And when one truly begins to breakdown and examine sports coaching, it essentially breaks into two words, they being: Base Growth So sports coaching is about…
Building things always begins with the first thing that you do. That may sound really obvious, though until one starts, nothing gets done. And the real question is, where does one start? And the simple answer is, right where you are. And when it comes to sport, building a team fundamentally revolves around three things:…
Iceberg on the horizon, and if one sees one, you will know that 7/8ths of the iceberg will be underwater. The Beauty Of Icebergs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3NbohN_nbk And like icebergs, teams comes in all shapes and sizes, and generally the important things don’t get seen from a coaching perspective, for when watching a coaching session, everyone generally focuses…
Eighty percent rule plays a big part in the functioning of our society, and it is no different when it comes to sports coaching. For the eighty percent rule is basically that 20% of your customers, spend 80% of the money, or 20% of the people will do eighty percent of the work. It’s a figure…
Sandbars always cause problems for people navigating certain water ways, for they constantly shift, and unless one can read the ripples on the water, one will beach themselves upon the sandbars hidden underneath. And in a way, that’s a bit like coaching, or working with any group of people, for as people come and go,…
Fitness is an important aspect to any sport that anyone plays, but it is not the only one, and when combined with core skills and understanding people, those 3 alone make up a substantial part of the coaching process. And understanding people is a big part of those 3, yet we pay little attention to…
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…
Grass Roots coaching is important to the very foundation of sport, we all know that, and yet it keeps posing a dilemma, for what do we do with it? How do we improve it and what information does it need? Jurgen Klopp On Grass Roots Football – Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHfBbEeHfys Jurgen Klopp On Grass Roots…
Development is an interesting process which occurs over time, and if anyone ever follows the work of anyone for any period of time, one will always see development occur within that time. And as mentioned a few times before, my development as a coach had reached a roadblock, for I had done all of the…
Mike Tyson boxing career was a whirlwind affair, coming out of nowhere, blazing a path of destruction, and disappearing into the wilderness at the end, in what many thought would be the end. But no, he’s surfaced again in a very different, transformational role, and I came across what he is now up to in a…
Finding things is really good, especially if one finds things that they weren’t really looking for, and that is one of the benefits of looking around the internet, for one is always coming across information that we hadn’t originally been looking for. And one of the things that I’m currently trying to do is in…
Fundamental to all coaching is in the laying of the foundation to whatever one does, and yet as mentioned many times before, the thing that is missed from our coaching education is the fundamental foundational aspect to everything that we do. And as usual, for ease of reference, another poster has been created to aid…
