Recently I was watching a talk and someone mentioned the concept of the beginner’s mind, so I looked around and basically found out that at its heart was about retaining curious minds. It’s an eastern philosophy and as usual when people explain this stuff through the eastern philosophy they make it this mysterious concept. I…
As one keeps searching around the internet, you keep coming across talks given by various people, and it is no different this time as I have come across an acceptance speech by Rik Mayall on the occasion of accepting his doctorate from Exeter University. Rik’s philosophy in life revolved around 5 simple things, in which…
When people get into sport, most tend to make it complicated and get lost in all the details that they accumulate. Whereas in reality, sport can be broken down into 3 fundamental questions and by keeping these questions in mind, a bigger picture emerges. What most people don’t realise about simplicity, that when done well,…
There are basically two ways to structure organisations and societies, they being authoritive based or consciousness based. Anything organised by the powers that think they be is always authoritive in structure and has gate keepers which is designed to disempower people. Information is always withheld and compartmentalised and the asking of questions is actively discouraged…
So how does having an understanding of consciousness and how we communicate with it help in developing players. In reality, it forms the basis of player development, because: If players love what they do, just by this very act, they will create something within themselves that is greater than the sum of its part. And…
If one wants a superior sports performance, one has to come to an understanding of the playing zone. It isn’t a hard concept to understand and going in with an open mind makes it easier to understand, for without an open mind, one will always close themselves off to the possibility of it ever being…
Yesterday I wrote about Arthur Lydiard, today I’m posting some clips of his trained athletes that struck gold. The athletes being: Peter Snell 1960 800M Rome Olympics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWk_agnXLzI 1964 800M Tokyo Olympics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqdlLVa2UU 1964 1500M Tokyo Olympics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD5kukMNVsI Murray Halberg 1960 5,000M Rome Olympics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf7OW6CaThA Richard Taylor 1974 10,000M Commonwealth Games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDr3QAmp-6E Lasse Viren 1972…
With the concept of the playing principles consisting of the drive, the fuel and the skill, one could just about look at others in the sporting world and could almost predict how successful they will become and what heights they will rise to. http://beawinningcoach.com/documents/Playing%20Principles%20Poster.pdf This is where coaches come into the sporting picture because they…
When you really start tuning in and listening to the top coaches, the real underlying theme to their success is in picking for character, in particular – Strength of Character. Because if you have the luxury of being able to pick and choose players, why would you pick skilled idiots or talented riff-raff? In other…
About 3 months ago I wrote a quick piece about what to do to become successful. To recap they were: Ask questions Find out what’s required to be done then implement it In wanting to take it further there is a third step that can be done in wanting to be super successful and it’s simply this:…
With 3 simple questions you can find out and uncover your player’s beliefs and attitude about sport. It might seem like a bold claim, though like anything else, ask the right targeted questions that seem innocent and people will reveal more about themselves than they realise. The 3 questions to uncover peoples attitude and beliefs…
If you’ve ever been at the top of the tree on the sporting ladder, have you ever wondered why you have to play hard every time you walk out onto the field? I was playing a game the other day, and the team I’m in is at the top and has been for a couple…
