New Sport…what is it, how to make it work in your sport and why it will succeed
Have a good look at these three guys…these are your clients…these guys and their families will determine whether you, your Club and your sport will survive in the next 20 years. Do you know who they...
View ArticleThe Biggest Question in Coaching: How do I get this generation of athletes to...
I hear it all over the world. In every sport. In every club. Coaches asking, “How do I get this generation of athletes to work hard”" Here’s how. The Problem: Kids are Lazy? The conversation usually...
View ArticleDon’t Count the Repeats:Make the Repeats Count.
I know, I know, I know. This sounds like an advertisement for a new sporting product or new piece of sporting training equipment…the sporting equivalent of the “knife that cuts through a shoe” or the...
View ArticleThe Ten Habits of Highly Effective Coaches
The great philosopher (and possibly football coach) Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” That being the case, (and with apologies to...
View ArticleTop Ten Talent I.D. Tips for High Performance Sport – The T.O.P. Approach
So much of the world’s high performance sports dollars (or Yens or Yuans or Euros or Pounds or Pesos or Rands depending on where you come from), time, energy, focus and attention is spent on three...
View ArticleTo a Coach with a Hammer, Every Athlete is a Nail: Creativity in Sports...
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...
View ArticleFive World Wide Trends in Sport which you ignore at your peril.
Having visited more than 30 countries in four continents in the past few years and spent time with sports leaders, coaches, athletes, sponsors, sports scientists, sports academics, sports medicine...
View ArticleCan you achieve the same or better performance results with reduced training...
One of the greatest challenges many traditional Olympic sports face is how to achieve the same or better results in less time. Kids and parents have very little spare time and for sports like swimming,...
View ArticleNew Sport:Old Sport. The Decade of Client Focused Sport is Here.
As the new decade starts, it is time to face the realities of the sports experience around the world. The last decade, saw the most significant changes in society, in learning, in education, in...
View ArticleCoachTED: A Client Focused Approach to Coach Training, Education and...
Coach education, as we know it, has failed. There is a shortage of quality coaches in all sports and in every nation. Yet, at the same time, governments and sporting organisations are throwing piles of...
View ArticlePositive Drug Tests in Sport: 6 Types of Drug Cheats and How to Recognise them.
Positive Drug Tests in sport. What sort of idiot trains hard for months or even years then: Takes performance enhancing or social drugs before, during or after competition? Takes performance enhancing...
View Article10000 hours to make a champion??? What rubbish!
This “10000 hours to build a champion athlete” stuff seems to have popped up in a lot of places recently. Just goes to show how many people in the world can write stuff about sport without knowing...
View ArticleSporting Parents:Gold Medal Parenting for the Parents of Young Athletes
There are sporting kids. There are sporting coaches. But the critical people in the sporting equation are sporting parents. This presentation helps every parent understand how to be a Gold Medal...
View ArticleThe W – Word: Winning.
I am getting so sick of people talking about high performance environments, about following a process, about systems, about structures, about programs, about initiatives, about workshops and about...
View ArticleSporting Parents:Gold Medal Parenting for the Parents of Young Athletes
There are sporting kids. There are sporting coaches. But the critical people in the sporting equation are sporting parents. This presentation helps every parent understand how to be a Gold Medal...
View ArticleThe Ten Habits of Highly Effective Coaches
The great philosopher (and possibly football coach) Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” That being the case, (and with apologies to...
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FIFA, FINA, UCI, ICU, ICC, IAAF, FISA, IRB, IOC…same tune: different orchestra.
Why is everyone so surprised every time a scandal gets reported about one of the International Sport Governing bodies or International Sporting Federations? Money. Power. Sex. Political influence....
View ArticleCommonwealth Games Delhi 2010 Checklist – Are you ready to Win?
Taj Mahal from Yuri Arcurs Website With the 19th Commonwealth Games in Delhi less than a year away, people are starting to get excited about the opportunity for high level competition and the...
View ArticleWinning in India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games: Are you already talking...
India 3D Flag from Crestock Stock Photography The 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, are only months away. What are we hearing from some athletes, coaches, administrators, the media and the...
View ArticleCoachTED: A Client Focused Approach to Coach Training, Education and...
Coach education is at the crossroads. One thing is for certain, the way we have trained, educated and developed sports coaches in the past is not working. It has failed. Let’s talk about a new...
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