Sometimes just turning up isn’t enough.
It’s easy to fall into a pattern that returns good results and, because you're not going backwards, you're quite happy with the status quo.
However,...
How to motivate your athletes without being over the top: Part...
Part 1 . Turn Up Ready To Work Hard
Skills can be trained, unlike a person’s height.
Training your skills is less about your genes and...
Artistic Athletes: create art through your sport
As a swimmer, I’ve been schooled about the importance of ‘rest and recovery’ for years.
It has fallen on persistently deaf ears until recently.
A year...
AD in the media: Challenge yourself to be the best you...
Achievement at Athlete Development looks a little different to common perceptions of the word. Being on time to academy for a whole month, performing...
Introducing the modern-day Youth Sports Coach
To an untrained eye the understated work of today’s youth sports coach belies the calibre of the person required to do a successful job....
EP3 – Stevie Baxter: Cultural Diversity, Motivation, and the Impact of...
In this episode we cover the influence of culture working in such a diverse ethnic city such as Auckland.
We chat about the importance of...
We’re the adults. It’s our problem.
Over-training in our top youth athletes is causing problems. We’re seeing higher injury rates, and more athletes failing to reach their potential than ever...
3 questions parents must ask when choosing their child’s development programme.
What does the programme curriculum look like?
Sport, like anything in life, requires you to be good at a number of different things to...
Deliberate practice
Much has been said recently about the perils of early specialisation.
In fact, an increasing body of evidence shows that doing too much of the...
Push play
Give a kid a skateboard, step back, and watch what happens.
Very quickly they recognise the opportunity to play.
To see what happens when they lean...