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Expert Advice for Sports Coaching Success

Improve your Coaching by NOT Coaching

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Coaching Tips

You read right – improve your coaching by NOT coaching.

Coaching improves performance.

But too much coaching – over coaching – can have a negative influence on performance.

Who OVER coaches? Read more

The Performance Clock – The Most Important Concept in High Performance Sport.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

I often get asked, what’s the difference between sport and high performance sport.

Read the next 800 words and find out.

Read more

Ten smart things we should be doing in the interest of better coach education – Part two

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Coach education

Here are ten things we should be doing in the interest of helping to educate the next generation of coaches: Read more

Beer Battles: Blowing the Froth off Football.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Hot Topics

Alcohol and footy are hot topics right now: that’s nothing new – they have been hot topics since both were invented. Read more

Ten Tips for Keeping your Relationship Healthy when you work in High Performance Sport

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

The term “Sporting Widow” (or widower) is almost a cliche in high performance sport as many, many relationships have fallen apart in the industry due to the demands and pressures of travel, preparation, competition, training camps etc etc.

This article is for all my coaching, sports science, sports medicine and sports management colleagues (and their long suffering partners and families) written after many years chatting over beers and lamenting the challenges of working on the road, away from loved ones trying to balance success in high performance sport with a successful relationship. Read more

Multi-Disciplinary (Performance) Sports Science: The Future of High Performance Sport.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Performance Science

There is no doubt that successful sports performance is multi-disciplinary in nature. Athletes and coaches need to be aware of the physiological, biomechanical, psychological, nutritional, medical and immunological and other issues that can impact on their competition performances.

It - performance – is rarely – if ever -about one thing in isolation!  Read more

Ten Reasons Why Change is so Hard to Introduce in Sport

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Leadership

Change is one of the most talked about aspects of sport.

But change is also one of the hardest things to actually introduce successfully and sustain in any sporting environment.

Why?

Because people who introduce change are often seen as radicals or “ratbags” or people who know nothing about the sport or people who don’t understand the sport’s culture or similar negative label. Read more

Talent Identification in the Western World – Over funded and Over rated.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Hot Topics

The concept of Talent Identification – TID for short - makes sense.

Do some standardised testing and screening of lots of kids, find the ones who can run faster, run further, jump longer, stretch better than the rest and bingo- you found talent!

It all grew out of the now ”mythical” talent identification systems of the old Eastern Block (and more recently China) - and the countless stories we have all heard for the past 30 years about how the centralised government systems put every child in the nation through a series of TID testing protocols and then funnelled them in to the specific sports where their talent was most likely to be developed to its full potential.

But in the western world, in spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at TID in Australia, the US, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Western Europe, with the exception of a few minor and specialised sports – it has failed and failed badly. Read more

Reverse Coaching – Coaching in Reverse.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Coaching Tips

Coaching is one thing.

But Reverse coaching?

What the heck is Reverse Coaching? Has this Sports Coaching Brain guy gone completely mental?

Read more

Sport and Parenting – GOLD MEDAL PARENTING – PART TWO

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Sport and Parenting

In part one of this article we looked at different types of Sporting Parents.

Here are a few more……see if you recognise anyone you know. Read more

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  Expert advice, ideas, innovation and inspiration for all sports coaches and team managers - from 'grass roots' through to elite and high performance levels. All posts are written by Wayne Goldsmith, AKA the "Sports Coaching Brain". If you have a question or comment about any post, please add it to the comments section.

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  • Improve your Coaching by NOT Coaching
  • The Performance Clock – The Most Important Concept in High Performance Sport.
  • Ten smart things we should be doing in the interest of better coach education – Part two
  • Beer Battles: Blowing the Froth off Football.
  • Ten Tips for Keeping your Relationship Healthy when you work in High Performance Sport

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