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September, 2009
Teaching Skills – A Performance Focused Approach to Teaching Skills.
What’s the difference between learning sports skills to play sport and learning sports skills to win in competition conditions?
Playing the sport is about learning and executing the skills of the sport.
Winning in competition is about executing skills to a high level of mastery, at high speed, in fatigue conditions and under pressure and consistently making the right decision about when, where and how to execute the skill.
So, why do so many coaches insist on teaching the basic skills without progressing them from playing level to performance level? Read more
September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby Union, Soccer, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
Recruiting a Head coach – how NOT to do it.
With the end of the season for Southern Hemisphere sports fast approaching and the Northern Hemisphere football codes getting ready to go, the issue of hiring the right head coach is a hotly debated topic in all the newspapers, television sport shows and sporting sites.
So how do you go about finding the right head coach for your team?
Because there are thousands of ways of doing it right - let’s start with how NOT to do it!
September 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon
Performance Science and Why it’s time has come.
It’s time.
It’s time for the Sports science industry to seriously change the way we do business.
It’s time we let go of the outdated, simplistic single cause / single effect model of research and embraced a genuine integrated, multi disciplinary approach to solving performance problems.
It’s time for Performance Science to come of age. Read more
September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
The Coaches “Box” – Good and Bad in the Hot Seat in Professional Sport.
They don’t call it the Hot Seat for nothing – the coaches’ box!
The coaches’ box is the place where the coaches sit during the game and make important decisions about tactical, strategic and technical issues that have the potential to impact on the momentum of the game and even change the end result.
Some coaches’ boxes work well.
Some coaches’ boxes don’t.
So what’s the difference? Read more
September 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: AFL, American Football, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Diving, Football, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer
