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Coach driven, Athlete Focused, Administratively supported? Isn’t it time we did something different?
Thanks for visiting the Brain today while doing your daily web surfing.
While you are in the surfing mood, go and check out some other sporting web sites.
Specifically check out the web sites of the funding agenices, Institutes and Academies of the major Olympics sporting nations.
You will see something like this - on ALL sites:
“Our philosophy is to embrace an athlete centred, coach driven and administratively supported high performance environment”.
This is a fantastic philosophy……….for about 1993.
Isn’t it time we did something different?
October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon
Message to the Sporting World - Do it your own way!
OK - the Olympics have finished.
Now comes the “GAMES”…………the junkets and fact finding missions the Sporting leaders from most countries are about to 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.
“Our country didn’t win any medals at the Olympics” says the Minister for Sport.
“Country XYZ won lots of medals at the Olympics”, says the CEO of the Sports Commission.
“Therefore if we want medals and we copy them we will win medals”, thinks everyone in the room.
“Hooray!!!! Problem solved - let’s buy some air tickets”.
Seems like common sense.
Waste of time.
Waste of money.
Waste of energy.
If the past has taught us one thing it is that high performance systems, structures and models do not work outside of the culture that created them.
September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Gymnastics, Hockey, Judo, Olympics, Rowing, Sailing, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon
Beijing Blast Number Four: Beijing 2008 is already over - and London 2012 is closer than you think.
Well, let’s hope you enjoyed the spectacular Opening Ceremony because the Beijing 2008 Olympics is already over.
And London 2012 is closer than you think.
August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Beijing Blast Number Three: Why the London 2012 Olympics will be Tougher to win than the Beijing 2008 Olympics
So you think winning Gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics is tough?
London 2012 will be much, much tougher.
Why?
August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Beijing Blast Number Two - Top Five Reasons Olympic Athletes Take Drugs
They don’t call it Doping for nothing - because only DOPES do it.
With the overnight announcement of the IAAF banning of several of Russia’s leading female distance runners - including current and previous world champions - let’s have a look at the top five reasons why Olympic Athletes take drugs.
August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Beijing Blast Number One - Five really dumb things most athletes heading to Beijing would have done in the past six months
Lots of athletes go to the Olympics - very, very few come back with a medal.
Why?
Lack of Talent? Unlikely.
Poor Skill? Possibly.
The wrong parents, i.e. Genetics? Could be.
But the reason most of them don’t win a medal is that they made five dumb mistakes in the past six months.
July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Why Bench - marking is a waste of time in High Performance Sport.
Benchmarking.
It has become one of the Buzz words in high performance sport.
Benchmarking means that someone in an organisation decides to find out what the best people in the industry are doing, learn from them and usually copy what they are doing.
For example, coaches in professional football codes will sometimes visit successful programs in other codes - maybe even in other nations - to try and learn what they do and how they became successful.
Institutes and Academies of Sport and Government sporting authorities often send people to other countries to benchmark systems, structures, programs and innovations.
It seems like a good idea. Travel to see another program, get some instant solutions to problems and some new ideas to help enhance performance - seems like a great idea.
However…………..
- It’s a waste of time
- It’s a waste of money
- Even if you have the time and the money it doesn’t work.
July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Coaching, Cricket, Diving, Football, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Triathlon
What is High Performance?
One of the most commonly asked questions in this business is, “What Exactly is High Performance?”
People talk about, write about, think about sports science, sports medicine, exercise physiology, talent identification, performance psychology, biomechanics, skill acquisition, elite coach development, recovery, sports physiotherapy, sports massage, performance analysis and all the elements and components of high performance sport, but what is it? What is this thing called High Performance?
I can summarise it all in one word………Change.
June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon
What’s all this Leadership by Empowerment stuff about?
Leadership groups, leadership teams, player leadership teams, team councils………
What’s going on here? Players making decisions? Players leading? Players taking ownership of their training and playing programs?
What’s all this empowerment stuff about?
What does engagement mean? Is someone getting married?
And what the hell is a leadership group?
I thought coaches coached, managers managed, fans cheered, doctors doctored and players played.
All of sudden every AFL, rugby, football, cricket, netball and rugby league team has embraced a player empowerment leadership model. Five years ago, most of us couldn’t even spell it.
Let’s have closer look at what’s going on.
May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Diving, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Track and Field
