Increasing more over time, it’s becoming obvious that the narrative we’re fed about over population of the world isn’t maybe what it seems, for there are three things happening at the moment in this world which contributes in helping to increase the world’s population. With those three things being: Lock downs Hard times Vaccines How…
Full your boots, actually it’s fill your boots is an old saying, literally meaning allowing someone to go for it, for example, can I have that pile of wood over their?, Sure, comes the reply, fill you boots mate, she’s all yours. The other thing I did the other day was to go for my…
Creative, people think that to be creative, one must have the mod con gear, well with a bit of lateral thinking, anything handy will do, it’s what one does with it that counts. The following is a quick clip, and some of the everyday stuff that they use include: Cones Car Tyres Shopping Trolleys PVC…
Restraints creates boundaries, and within the boundaries, the creativity can flourish, and yet when we are looking to do things, we are looking to remove the restraints. And the above reminds me of a quote from Earnest Rutherford: “We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think” And when it comes to exercises and…
Clues can be buried deep sometimes, and sometimes one has to look at things from a different angle to see things as they are, not as they appear to be. And in coaching, one has to see things from a multitude of perspectives, for sometimes the solution isn’t always the most obvious, and sometimes it…
Meaningless statistics, every sport has them, and though they may look impressive, they aren’t the true judge of what is really going on. The movie and book Moneyball is a good example of how looking at more meaningful statistics can change a way a player is looked at and the way a game is played….
Ten to fourteen practices a year is all one has for working with junior teams in a typical season, so the question is, how does one make most use of that time? 24 Hours From Tulsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugy2rkSM7g For at the end of the day, there is only so much that one can do in that…
Simple technique changes can have great effects, going from making a hard job to simple, from having trouble executing a skill, to creating more power in what one does. And no where is this use of simple techniques more prevalent than in doing magic tricks and illusions, for some of the greatest magic tricks use…
Take the long way home, a great song by the 70’s group Supertramp, and I’m always fascinated by the ideas that people start with and the product they end up with, for the majority of the time the two are not the same. Take The Long Way Home – Supertramp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYfeMMeNVg It’s a bit like…
Distilled Essence is something that has been concentrated down from an abundance of material by pulling out the essence of that material, until one has a concentrate left. How To Steam Distill Essential Oils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBtuUUTbTyw And it’s the same with sport, there is so much information out there, where does one start? And in the…
Introductory is beginning at the start and laying out the basic aspects (Principles) to what one does. And this has been the hardest thing over the years for sport, for when one thinks about it, organized sport in the modern era has only really been around for just over 120 years, which in realistic terms,…
Philosophical you say, nope, just think about things, and by doing so, one ends up becoming Philosophical as a result, and of course that spills over into one’s sports coaching, for the two go hand in hand. For if one looks at and thinks about things long enough, patterns and principles begin to emerge from…
Startled Rabbits, and they’re off, we see it on the sports field time and time again. Someone gets the ball, they run with it, they get tackled, turn the ball over, someone in the opposition gets the ball, runs with it, gets tackled, turns the ball over, and like startled rabbits, it just continues over…
Highly sensitive bodies have a harder time when it comes to sport, for though the individual would like to compete at a higher level, that fact their body is more highly sensitive makes it that much harder. And the way that it makes it harder is because: Can’t do the workload that others do Need…
Consider this, maybe we’ve been lied to all of our lives – Nooooo, it can’t be true, or is it, and how would one know, especially if the information we are getting is from the source that is lying to us? For have you considered the possibility that the mainstream narrative isn’t saying the whole…
Playing Zone is an interesting topic to begin to explore, and at the beginning, it can seem that there is very little information out there about it, though like anything, there is more than one would think. And the following few books are interesting reads into the topic of the Playing Zone. In The Zone…
Spiritual, the term is thrown at us all of the time, or in most cases, has been removed from people’s vocabulary, or if used, the term has become a form of ridicule. So why has the term spiritual become a term of ridicule, could it be that it goes against some of the larger cult…
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….
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…
