When I left school back in 1985, I decided not to go to university as it wasn’t an environment which suited my learning style. The way that I learn is that I identify and pull out the keys points from all the details so I can formulate and understand concepts, because by understanding concepts then you know which details are important in implementing what you want to do.

My working life has been varied. I’ve worked for telephone communications, then as a barman in a pub in London. I also didn’t work for a whole year. I’ve worked in horticulture at a nursery which specialized in peony roses. I have been a manager of a fruit and vegetable section of a supermarket. I have done sales, merchandising and deliveries of cake products. I have done truck driving which involved delivering general freight. Then back to working in a café bar and back to working in a supermarket as a floor supervisor. All of my employment I have enjoyed and each are as varied as each other and I’ve learnt and gained new skills from everything that I’ve done.

With coaching, I have worked with an array of ages and abilities, from senior men’s rep teams, to 4 and 5 year olds starting in the sport and both male and female teams and players. As a coach, I find if you can explain the skills and techniques of your sport in words that a 4 year old can understand, you’ve taken a big step to be able to explain what you do to anyone. Because 4 to 5 year olds do not understand language properly and do exactly and literally what you tell them to do, it is a quick way to see if you are explaining things correctly and getting the right message across.

One of my philosophies in sport, is there are no secrets to coaching and for too long people have been working blind or if people have known they have tried hard to keep the key information hidden. I’m here to change all that for the more people that know, the better sport will become and my concept of coaching is based around the creation and maintaining of a Learning Environment and building into my players the core skills and techniques.

I enjoyed the challenge of uncovering the concepts, keys and principles of sport; I hope by reading this website, blog and associated material you enjoy and gain from the benefits of applying them.

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Because I love learning and want to improve my coaching and the basis of my learning revolves around questions, two of the biggest questions I asked were these: what do coaches who are successful work from that isn’t being taught and what if my players do not want to learn?

Everything put out evolves from what I observe and from the answers I receive, for if I am benefiting from what I was uncovering, then so could others because others are asking exactly the same questions.

Regardless of where you are, and the situation you are in, as a coach you have the ability to influence people’s life for the better as you look to uncover and develop the abilities and talents that lie within your players and just as importantly, within yourself.

The process of self-discovery, for that’s what coaching is, is a journey which never ends for the more you teach people, the more you teach yourself and coaches have an important role to play in releasing the Learner & Improver from within both themselves and their players.

As with most things in life:

Learn the principles, develop the discipline, work the principles, the results will come.