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June, 2010
Sporting Parents: Supporting Sporting Kids. Follow me on Twitter!!!
Owing to the huge number of requests I get for posts, articles and ideas from Sporting Parents, I have started a new Twitter Account called…Yes – you guessed it….Sporting Parents.
I will be adding a Sporting Parents Tip every day and will use Tweets to educate, inform and help parents of kids who play sport.
WG
June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
Tags: parenting, sport, Sport and Parenting, sporting parents, sports parenting, sports parents
Where is leadership in sport going: the future of leadership.
First…there were the LEADERS. The autocratic, dictatorial, “my way or the highway” type leaders.
Then came the LEADERSHIP GROUPS, LEADERSHIP COUNCILS, LEADERSHIP TEAMS.
So what’s next?
There is a revolution in leadership coming: the way we think about it, the way we talk about it, the way we develop it is all about to change.
Read on…………………. Read more
June 25, 2010 | 4 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
Helping Your Child Achieve in Sport – Fifty Things You Can Do
Fifty tips for parents of young athletes, to help them get the most out of their chosen sport.
- Love them unconditionally.
- Support their coach.
- Accept that they can not win every time they compete.
- Allow them to be a kid and to have fun.
- Help them to develop as a person with character and values.
- Turn off as a sporting parent. Don’t make sport the one and only topic of conversation at the dinner table, in the car, etc.
- Don’t introduce your child as “This is my son the swimmer or Rugby player” – their sport is just something they do – it does not define them.
- Don’t do everything for them. Teach them responsibility and self management.
- Reward frequently for success and effort but make them small, simple, practical, and personal things. Kids don’t need a CD or $20 just for playing sport.
- Best of all reward them with what they really love…….your time! Read more
June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
News Flash: Olympic Cycle Changed to Six Years.
News Flash, Lausanne, Switzerland. Here is the latest news.
The IOC today announced that effective immediately there will be two Olympic Cycles.
The first one, known from this date forward as the “Pretenders Cycle” will run on the traditional four year Olympic cycle.
The second cycle, announced today as the ”Contenders Cycle”, is a six year cycle. It is expected that the majority of Olympic medal winners will be using the new six year cycle.
Our Olympic reporter Wayne Goldsmith has more….. Read more
June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
Tags: Archery, Athletics, Basketball, Boxing, Coach education, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, London 2012, Olympic Games, Olympics, Rugby, Shooting, Soccer, sport, Sports Management, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon, Weightlifting, Wrestling
The FIFA World Cup: How to make sure you fail at Football.
The most basic of all concepts in high performance sport (and art and other areas of human endeavour) is that you do things as an extension of your national culture – or in simple terms “you play like your place”. Read more
June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Coaching, Cricket, Football, High Performance, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Sports Management
