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…
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,…
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…
Foundation Stones are fundamental to the coaching process, for they are the first stone that is put in place, and it’s just the same when it comes to coaching sport, for without a proper base, no building can truly start. Laying The Stone Foundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxGz9TuXek So when it comes to sport, the foundation of coaching consists…
After having done the work on the 4 pillars of coaching, I’ve combined both the philosophy and pillars together, and when done it becomes a much more powerful tool. Coaching Philosophy Get the Buy In Coach the Mind The Rest then Follows 4 Pillars of Coaching Simplicity Learning Key Skills The Mind And as…
I love the philosophy of Bruce Lee and If you ever want to understand key skills, visit his work and words, for he understood the value of and the need to incessantly practice them. The following are a few quotes from Bruce and explains key skills to a tee and he also had developed the succeeding…
The mind is the fuel tank and the aspects which make up the mind is the fuel that drives the player. Because you are dealing with simplicity it needs a mind with certain aspects to make it happen and fortunately theses aspects are available to all. The certain mind is called the Succeeding Mind and…
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other – Abraham Lincoln Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment – Buddha For every minute you are angry, you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind…
When you are playing sport you need a set of skills to be able to play the game. Because you are dealing with simplicity, for that’s what’s driving everything, it a special set of skills labelled key skills. Simplicity also means effectiveness, and any key is an aspect which allows players to be effective on…
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times – Bruce Lee The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be – Bruce Lee Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch, Kick when you have…
Learning is self-explanatory, because without it, no one ever improves. And as a coach, if you do not develop the ability to turn your players onto the learning process, all your coaching knowledge becomes irrelevant. This is Simplicity at its finest. For: If you create proactive learners, the players will look after the learning themselves
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go – Dr Seuss It’s not that I’m smart. But I stay with the questions much longer – Albert Einstein Any fool can know. The point is to understand – Albert Einstein Tell me and…
Simplicity is about doing the least amount of things in the most effective way, without reducing the quality of what you do and if you understand simplicity, the quality of the things that you do, rises. Before you begin coaching, it helps to understand what sport is about. At its essence and simplicity, sport is…
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated – Confucius Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify – Henry David Thoreau Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple – Natalie Babbitt It’s not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials – Bruce Lee The greatest…
To bring some sense of order to what I’ve been writing and bringing the information together, the following are four pillars for successful coaching and from these, you can choose if you like, to build your coaching from. The four pillars of coaching being: Simplicity Learning Key Skills The Mind Over the next four days…
