The Bright Lights of Winning
There's no denying it. Today, so much of success is measured on winning and so it’s become the focus, chased down at all costs.
But...
Not your regular holiday programme
A refreshed Athlete Development Holiday Academy programme was a success over the summer, with 30 keen young athletes enjoying movement-based activities for an action-packed...
More On The Gap: Navigating Puberty in Sport
The years of puberty are rough.
A young athlete goes through an accelerated growth while transitioning from child to young adult that makes navigating sport...
Coach Advice: Make time or it won’t happen
In the hustle and bustle of life it’s easy to make promises and plans and then fail to follow through with them. Training gets...
EP 12 – Vince Minjares
Today I’m talking with Vincent Minjares. He’s a youth basketball coach, as well as a PhD student at AUT University investigating athlete learning and...
EP 76- Peter Verdin – Movement Engineering
"Relationships are the biggest thing for me. Building relationships and rapport with students is going to create a much more joyful experience for them...
Think about thinking
When the ball goes in, we focus on what the athlete did to make it so. How fast she ran to make the break, how...
Part 2. Why treating athletes individually is a must
In last week’s blog I left you with an important question to consider: whose responsibility is it to drive training motivation in youth athletes?
As...
What can we learn from skateboarding?
No coach. No rules. No scheduled training sessions. Yet hours of purposeful practice. Why?
Part of the beauty of coaching early morning training sessions is...
7 ‘Dripping Faucets’ to Consider in Youth Sport
The Dripping Faucet
Kids learn a lot about how to act in the world from what we say and how we are saying it. They...