Welcome to the September 2015 edition of Coaching Matters, a round up of the articles I have found interesting in the month relating to coaching, sport science, physical preparation and skill acquisition.
I had a fantastic holiday last month in Devon and disconnected totally from the internet and my mobile phone. So much so that I have struggled to re-engage with much of the social media and digital outlets that I normally consume. At first this slightly disconcerted me as I have a large, innate “Fear of Missing Out” but it has acted as a useful filter to strip back to what I really find useful and what is just padding.
Special mention this month for the Sporticus PE Playbook which is a PE teacher’s version of this blog rounding up useful articles. Follow him on Twitter too, @ImSporticus as he posts some thought provoking insights in the life of a PE teacher and asks some good questions relevant to all coaching.
The whole point of this blog is sharing and interaction so if you have written or know of similar content that would be good for future posts then please let me know via Twitter @SiNainby.
Don’t forget to check out the Coaching Matters Live Round Up Tool, all the previous Coaching Matters blogs, my Notes From blogs of various lectures/CPD I have attended and various random thoughts on coaching.
Top 10
- Sports Coach UK: Self-determination Theory: A Guide for Coaches
- Science Isn’t Broken: It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for
- Perception & Action Science Podcast by Rob Gray – Also check the website PerceptionAction.com
- Joel Jamieson: 3 New Conditioning Rules
- Fergus Connolly presentations: Challenges for Team Sport Performance Analytics, Managing Information & Technology in Elite Sport & Applied Sports Performance
- Steve Magness: Science vs. Art of coaching- What actually is Science?
- Fergus Connolly: Good habits crucial when pressure is on
- Michael Carrick : Raising A Playmaker
- Edward R. Tufte – Envisioning Information
- An essential guide to learning about learning- a curated reading list for curious coaches
General Coaching
- 10 Wayne Bennett quotes that will change your life
- Brisbane Broncos coach Wayne Bennett is the maestro with the human touch
- Connected Coaches – UK Community for Coaches
- Sports Coach UK: Research Summaries for Coaches
- Steve Tew, CEO NZ Rugby: The right values and winning all matter – but the hard work begins long ago
- Propublica: The Human Reasons Why Athletes Who Dope Get Away With It
- Interview: All Blacks Coach Steve Hansen
- Inside Germany’s Ultra-Competitive Soccer Coaching Academy
- Three points to consider when working with youth rugby players
- RWC 2015: England’s inability to react when things went wrong is rooted in poor coaching, says Brian Ashton
- Athletics must restore public confidence in the sport or it is doomed
- Shawn Myszka: What should the NFL learn from the Jarryd Hayne experiment?
- Jason Day: From drunk 12-year-old to US PGA champion
- Joel Jamieson: Book Recommendations for coaches
- Moneyball was just the start – data is about to change rugby coaches’ lives for good
- Out of the Shadows – Depression & Anxiety in Pro Sport
- The Gritty Reality: What Doesn’t Kill Us May Not Make Us Stronger
- Ian Madigan: ‘I’m picked to play because the coach believes my instincts are good’
- What Is Wrong With The Great Britain Men’s Relay Team?
- How to Increase Mental Toughness: 4 Secrets From Navy SEALs and Olympians
- Inside St Kilda’s coaching box: where the other real action takes place
- When painkilling becomes an addiction for young athletes
- Paul Cortes: Thoughts from a Long Time Reader of the Youth Basketball Coach Education Association
- Rugby World Cup 2015: Tom Wood reveals England’s brutal dieting programme
- No Foul Mouths on This Field: Football With a New Age Twist
- Pete Carroll, NFL’s eternal optimist, is ready to turn heartbreak into triumph
- Child’s Play: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
- New Zealand’s Graham Henry: how I learned to win the Rugby World Cup
- The making of an All Black: how New Zealand sustains its rugby dynasty
- Graham Henry explains the haka
- All Blacks’ hotel doubles as world-class training facility
- Rugby World Cup 2015: Conrad Smith on life inside the All Blacks
- MARTIN JOHNSON: Sacrifice? Shut up and get on with it…
- Stuart Lancaster unmasked: the coach who would be king
- Rugby World Cup 2015: Bigger, faster, stronger, dirtier?
- Is physical endurance all in the mind?
- Are pushy parents putting children off sport?
- Karl Robinson interview: Who would be a football manager?
- How the Rams Built a Laboratory for Millennials
- World athletics championships 2015: Dan Pfaff, the genius behind Fabrice Lapierre
- How Eddie Jones helped Japan achieve the impossible
- What can coaches learn from skateboarding?
- Wrestling: Going the Extra Mile
Skill Acquisition/Dynamic Systems
- Ric Shuttleworth: Decision Making in Team Sport
- Does Mindfulness Make for a Better Athlete?
- Context shift
- Creative edges
- Manipulating Task Constraints in Small-Sided Soccer Games: Performance Analysis and Practical Implications
- Videogames and Complexity Theory: Learning through Game Play
- Double Gaze- Analysing and Coaching 1v1 Attacking Situations
- Motor Learning/Classroom Learning
- Visual exploratory activity and resultant behavioural analysis of youth midfield soccer players
- Video: Awareness (Scanning) for a Central Midfielder
- Video: Frank Lampard Awareness (Scanning)
- Perception is in the Eye of the Beholder
- My Fastest Mile: too many cooks – hangout with Andrew Gillott, Coach Developer
- My Fastest Mile: A need to “relearn”?
- A Dynamical Systems Approach to Lower Extremity Running Injuries
- Dave Snowden’s Talk on Cynefin at LeanWX
- Challenges and Solutions When Applying Implicit Motor Learning Theory in a High Performance Sport Environment: Examples from Rugby League
- Train Ugly: The Jungle Tiger Case Study
- Stop Wasting Time on the Driving Range with Dr Tim Lee
- Great Teachers Are Hesitant To Teach
Masterful movement is characterized by a blend between stable/consistent movement patterns & controllable variability to changes in sport
— Movement Mastery (@Movement_Master) August 1, 2015
Physical Preparation
- Ed Slattery: Interview with Ciaran Keogh
- Mike Robertson Podcast: Physical Preparation with Buddy Morris
- Vern Gambetta: Mach Sprint Drills – A Personal Perspective
- Has a Norwegian Physicist Shown That All Elites Run Wrong?
- Muscle Oxygen Changes following Sprint Interval Cycling Training in Elite Field Hockey Players
- Basic Linear Speed Acceleration Drills in a Team Setting
- Warren Gatland pushing Wales players to the limit ahead of Rugby World Cup
- Martin Bingisser: Specific About Strength
- Dan Cossins: Building Blocks for the young sprinter (parts II, III & IV are linked below the video)
- Keir Wenham-Flatt: Learning strength and conditioning lessons from the military
- Jimson Lee: Interview with Landon Evans, Strength & Conditioning Coach & Nutrition Coordinator
- Behind the Scenes with the Western Force: Developing Strength, Power and Speed
- Interview with sprint coach Håkan Andersson: Fatigue is not necessarily your enemy
- Seattle Sounders warmup as seen through the eyes of Dave Tenney
- Hmmr Media: Training Talk with John Kiely (Part 3)
- Hmmr Media: Another Training Talk with Dan Pfaff
- Kitman Labs: Hypoxic Training for the Rugby World Cup
- Shawn Myszka: Why every NFL team needs a Movement Coach: Part 1 & Part 2
- Polluted host cities are putting our champion athletes at risk
- Rugby World Cup 2015: Inside England’s physio department
- How to Evaluate Maximal Velocity of Athletes
- Netball Australia – KNEE program for ACL injury prevention
- Dean Benton & Vern Gambetta: The 5 Primary Areas of Physical Capability to Prioritise for Developmental Athletes
- Kelvin Giles: Running Drills
- Massage Therapy rubs me the wrong way
- All Blacks’ secret is not who you would expect: Nic Gill
- What the All Blacks can teach us about Strength & Conditioning…
- Injury plagued Arsenal and Newcastle United do not paint the full picture
Physical Preparation Podcasts
- Pacey Performance:
- Rugby Strength Coach
Sport Science
- Sports Discovery: Interview with Dr Craig Duncan
- Periodization paradigms in the 21st century: Evidence-led or tradition-driven? By John Kiely
- @AcademicsSay: The Story Behind a Social-Media Experiment
- A Drug Hits Cycling Before It Hits the Market
- How science is fine-tuning our elite footballers
- Stuart McMillan: A coaches’ guide to strength development: PART VI – awareness & data collection
- To Prevent Concussions, This Collar Restricts Bloodflow From Your Brain. Can it Really Work?
- Interview with James Bunce, Head of Sport Science, Premier League
- Collingwood chief Gary Pert concerned about AFL’s GPS switch
- Data Visualizations: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding Stories In Numbers
- Science says science is shoddy
- Fergus Connolly: Challenges for Team Sport Performance Analytics Part I & Part II
- Matt Bloomfield explains why GPS tracking devices work
- Dolphins aim to prevent injuries with futuristic performance program
- Steve Ingham: Dear budding sport scientist
- Physics of falling says professional athletes are running wrong
- Has a Norwegian Physicist Shown That All Elites Run Wrong?
Education
- Setting the record straight about schools on TV (by the ‘Educating the East End’ head)
- Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm
- Calamity Teacher: It Is Only Our Perception
- Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement
- Doug Lemov’s field notes: On Self Esteem
- Students with laptops did better in HSC science
- Teaching how to think is just as important as teaching anything else
- Soft skills boost public school dominance, says former head
Productivity/Business
- 20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions
- What Happened When Fast Company Staff Created Better To-Do Lists
- Sweden is shifting to a 6-hour work day
- Sneaker Wars: Inside the Battle Between Nike and Adidas
- Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
- Why Measuring Employee Happiness Is A Huge Mistake
- Holacracy: How It Works
- Casey Neistat on Writing Your Own Rules to Creative Success
- How The Army Got Soldiers To Share Their Great Ideas
- What you can’t Measure…. MATTERS!
- Corporate mindfulness is bullsh*t: Zen or no Zen, you’re working harder and being paid less
Miscelleaneous
- Exercise classes help cut NHS staff sickness rates
- The quiet alarm – Just like pain, boredom is an aversive and unpleasant experience that we need to have in order to truly live well
- How can a dummy pill have a real effect on your body?
- Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Human
- Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is noticing
- Self-proclaimed ‘experts’ more likely to fall for made-up facts, study finds
- Why We Fall for Bogus Research
- A Point of View: Does atheism have to be anti-religious?
- 1 Incredibly Simple Way to Stand Out From the Crowd
- Building a bulletproof mind
- Why the sharing economy needs a democratic revolution
- ‘NeuroTribes’ Examines The History — And Myths — Of The Autism Spectrum
- The dangerous idea that life is a story
- Is it ok for Psychologists to deceive?
- Weighing up the evidence for the ‘Historical Jesus’
- In this London pub, drink prices rise and fall like stocks
- Beware online “Filter Bubbles”
- How to pick the perfect password
- Impossible Photography
- How we can rid the legal system of bad science
