After the CLOSING ceremony of every Olympic Games, someone should yell out, “let the (real) Games begin”. The real ”GAMES”…………the junkets and fact finding missions the Sporting leaders from most countries embark on to find out what the USA, Germany, Great Britain, South Korea, China and Australia are doing to be successful in the Olympics. The logic seems simple enough. [...]
Tag Archives | Basketball
The Facility Fallacy
Here’s how it goes. Your club has had another poor season. People looking for answers come up with a lot of ideas on how to improve next year. The management team determine that what the Club needs is a new high performance facility: new stadium, new meeting rooms, new computer lab, new medical facilities, [...]
Great Coaching – Great Coaches: How to Be the Best of the Best.
Greatness is something that all high performance coaches crave. They pursue it with passion and strive to be considered one of the coaches who achieved success at the highest level of their sport. But what is greatness? Where can you find it? What does it look like? And can you measure it? This article discusses greatness in coaching and presents ten fundamental characteristics of greatness to help every coach realise their potential and fulfil their destiny.
Sport and Parenting – GOLD MEDAL PARENTING – PART TWO
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. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Tweet
How to Develop World Class Coaches
OK. Let’s talk about how to develop world class coaches. Grab a piece of paper. On one side of the paper, write down the characteristics of a great coach. Does your list include any or all of the following: Outstanding communicator Visionary Leader Innovator Negotiator Conflict resolver Media manager Public relations genius Team developer People [...]
To a Coach with a Hammer, Every Athlete is a Nail: Creativity in Sports Coaching.
Coaching is creativity. To the successful coaches of the future, creativity will be a core coaching skill: right up there with communication, passion, empathy, commitment, the ability to engage athletes and sports specific technical skill. But what does it mean to be creative and to coach creatively. And to coaches who are not naturally creative, can they learn to be? [...]
What’s the difference between Medicine and Sports Medicine?
I was recently asked to talk to a group of students about high performance sport. We discussed all the “usual” topics: talent identification, sports science, elite coach development and sports medicine. One of the students asked me, “Is there a difference between Medicine (as in general practice medicine) and Sports Medicine as it exists in [...]
Talent Identification in the Western World – Over funded and Over rated.
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 [...]
The Greatest Assistant Coaching Article Ever Written (i.e. because we think it’s the only one): 50 of the best Tips on how to be a World Class Assistant Coach.
Behind every great head coach is a great assistant coach. This article presents 50 tips on how to be a great assistant coach with tips and ideas contributed by some of Australia’s leading coaching brains.
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A Piece of String is Twice as Long as it is from one end to the middle.
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Coaching without Periodisation
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The Biggest Question in Coaching: How do I get this generation of athletes to work hard?
