May was a very busy month as the winter sports reached their climax with various league and cup finals. These are the articles I managed to tear myself away from the TV to read.
If you have written or know of similar content that would be good for future posts then please let me know via simon@undergroundathletics.co.uk or on Twitter @SiNainby.
General Coaching
- New Ireland Rugby Coach Joe Schmidt brought coaching to the next level
- Practical coaching sessions for every practical session topic in the UEFA B (level 3) Licence
- Taking charge of your coaching development
- Everton: how the Blues made good
- Identifying excellent coaching practice along the sporting pathway
- The importance of a coaching philosophy
- 10 expectations of students
- RFU Talent Symposium Review
- 10 mistakes of a beginner coach Part I and Part II
- Critique of Talent books
- How Germany went from bust to boom on the talent production line
- Reactive vs planned agility
- Teaching games for understanding: Back to Basics
- Interview with Derek Eveley
- Interview with Scott Murphy, High Performance Director at Saracens
Sports Science
- Australian Institute of Sport new athlete development model
- Japanese Teen shatters sprinting myths
- Clearing the name of sport science in Australia
- Drug cheats are pushing the boundaries in athletics
- The safety of artificial turf vs grass as a sport playing surface
- Professor David Bishop: Exercising at altitude; does it help team sports?
- Pros and cons of aerobic training for anaerobic athletes
- Should sprinters do long runs?
- The science of running – follow the bouncing ball
- Moneyball’s mantra helped the All Blacks win the World Cup
- Dr Gerry Ramogida: Joint mechanics of the hip
- How Chelsea are using big data
- Half time warm ups boost athletic performance
- Sport Science in Australia vs USA
- Do small sided games improve fitness?
- Interview with Julen Castellano – author of papers on GPS and small sided games
- Dan Pfaff video interview on the 100m and Johnnie Peacock
- Morning based strength training improves afteroon physical performance in rugby players
- Marco Cardinale – S&C in the real world from science to application
Skill Acquisition
- Why video analysis is crucial to analyzing ice hockey
- Feedback: What we say matters
- Innovative approaches in coach education pedagogy
- Decision Fatigue
- Sean Foley the controversial genius responsible for making Tiger Woods play the best golf of his career
- Game sense coaching and developing decision making in AFL
- Seeing and observing
- Player development and learning – facilitating the environment
- The wrong way to practice golf
- Dr Damian Farrow – Skill Acquisition video
- Ric Shuttleworth on coaching and skill acquisition
- The performance development journey
- Perception Action Coupling
- The importance of perception-action coupling for deception
- Titleist Performance Institute on LTAD
- English Institute of Sport launch Expertise in Skill Acquisition Network
- Skill Development through repetition – but what repetition?