After a break welcome back to the December 2016 edition of Coaching Matters, a round-up of the articles I have found interesting in the past 6 months relating to coaching, sport science, physical preparation and skill acquisition.
I took a break as I cut back on my general reading to focus on a few key aspects of my education and put together some new Coaching projects. Also the posts were becoming somewhat unwieldy. I now plan to produce a weekly version which should be more manageable for me to compile and you to read. This one is the last big, 200+ links version. If you are interested one of the areas I have been immersing myself in is the work of Psychologist Jordan Peterson from a recommendation by Tom Farrow. You can download Jordan’s book and see his reading list here Maps of Meaning: Suggested Readings and here is a YouTube playlist of his lectures on the subject.
Its been time of real upheaval, Leicester beat 5,000 to 1 odds to win the Premier League, Connacht won the Pro 12, not to mention Brexit & Donald Trump. These events have shaken up some status quos and raised some very interesting questions. Two key issues are Echo Chambers & the Post Truth Era which I find interesting in the context of this blog. Looking at many of the subjects & sources there are clear indicators of my biases & the need to recognise that anyone can create and post content that suits their agenda irrespective of any facts or truth. So remember ABC as you read – Assume Nothing, Believe No-one and Check Everything.
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
- Developing better players: switching teaching to learning… by Nick Levett
- Stop Serving the Feedback Sandwich
- Delivering Culture Change in Elite Sport Performance Teams: A First Exploration PhD Thesis by Andrew Cruickshank
- We Are All Confident Idiots By David Dunning (Of the Dunning-Kruger Effect)
- Is convenience killing learning? By John Stoszkowski
- Stuart McMillan: Introducing a New Element to Coaching: Power, a guest-post by Joe Mills & Jim Denison Part I | Part II | Part III
- Transforming The Team of Champions into The Champion Team by Terry Condon
- How Do Coaches Learn?
- Boo Schexnayder Free Articles
- The Restless Multidisciplinarian – The Neo-Generalist
- The autodidact
General Sports/Coaching
- Do rev-up speeches and coaching sprays really work in modern AFL football?
- Communication – Maximizing Impact in Coaching
- Alex Corbisiero: ‘Even now people will frown if you say you need a rest’
- Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- Creating “thinking” players will advance footy
- Claudio Ranieri, David Hume, and the Butterfly Effect by John Stoszkowski
- A fairytale from the (Leicester) city
- Working with elite athletes – 7 things you need to know! Cameron Lillicrap
- Learning – It isn’t always ‘fun’ by John Stoszkowski
- David Flatman – What it actually means to lose the dressing room
- The Whitehouse Address – The Difficulties with Academies & the EPPP
- The Foundations of Good Coaching: 5 key attributes a good coach needs
- Seven tools for thinking #1: Use your mistakes
- Connacht are the template for a winning business
- FA’s youth coaching game-changer means more ball-work and less shouting
- Shaun Longstaff: Fears and revelations of a top rugby agent
- Team GB’s victorious hockey stars: ‘Our mantra was simple: Create history and inspire the future’
- Andre De Grasse – Beyond Potential
- Finding Mastery: Pete Carroll – Competing to be Your Best
- Atul Gawande: The Difference Between Coaching and Teaching
- Stuart McMillan – The Olympic Games experience
- Steve Magness: The Battle Between Sport Science, Analytics, and Intuitive Coaching
- Developing decision-making skills crucial for nurturing children’s potential
- Player-perception and fun enhanced by games-based approach to development
- Coach by Darren Lehmann review – maybe honesty is the best policy
- Joe Brolly: Unless he’s a surgeon, don’t let him take a tin opener to your brain
- Joe Brolly: Why I can’t lose with a career in the bullshit industry
- Talksport Kick Off: Youth development and academy special
- Mark Upton: Drowning in Freedom
- Mark Upton: Organising for Excellence in Team Sports Part I | Part II | Part III
- Bill Gerrard: Learning from the Recent Successes in English Rugby
- Unexpected Lessons on Greatness From Super-Champion Athletes
- The current All Blacks are the most dominant rugby side ever. Why?
- Coaching Lessons From Former Greats
- Craig Pickering: Illusions of Causality
- Sporticus
- Shaping the Game
- What is coaching about?
- 4 domains of learning in Physical Education – Refined
- A Models Based Approach to PE: Cooperative Learning
- PE Playbook – Sporticus’ own version of this blog if you want even more reading!
Skill Acquisition/Dynamic Systems
- The Five-A Model: A Step-by-Step Process for Refining Technique
- Implementing the Five-A Model of Technical Refinement: Key Roles of the Sport Psychologist
- Psychological Characteristics for Developing Excellence in Young Athletes
- Practice doesn’t explain why the best athletes are so good. Here’s what does
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos – Steven Strogatz, Cornell University
- Variability, stability, complexity and adaptability – Prof. Joseph Hamill
- Training principles to advance expertise
- Practice doesn’t make perfect
- Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect: Scott Barry Kaufman and David Epstein Reconsider the Science of “10,000 Hours” to Greatness
- Technique v Skill by Olly Logan
- Defining the Goal of Affective Learning w/ Graeme McDowall and Peter Arnott
- UEFA A Licence Final Report – Learning in Football: The Role of Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition by Vítor Gazimba
Physical Preparation
- (Not-so) Simple Economics, by Phoebe Wright
- Mladen Jovanovic – Training Periodization, Sprinting, Tempo, Charlie Francis, Technology and Much, Much More – Discussion
- A Deeper Look into Medicine Ball Training by Carl Valle
- The Power of Placebo: What Happens When You Believe You’re Taking Steroids
- George Petrakos: Resisted Sled Sprint Training – Part 1 – Methods of Sled Load Prescription
- George Petrakos: Programming for Resisted Sled Sprint Training
- Review Of “Strength Training And Coordination: An Integrative Approach” By Frans Bosch
- 4 Things I Learned From Frans Bosch by Martin Bingisser
- Charlie Francis Vancouver Summit
- Allan Macdonald – Warm Up Evolution
- Allan Macdonald – Reductionist Thinking
- Strength Training for Youth Athletes with Paudie Roche Part I | Part II | Part III
- Rugby Strength Coach – Why your training may be scheduled incorrectly…
- Why I put strength on dysfunction by Greg Lehman
- Peak Height Velocity Guide & Free Excel Calculator
- Monitoring, Injury Risk Factors & the 21st Century Strength Coach by Eamonn Flanagan
Sport Science
- The Reactive Strength Index Revisited by Eamonn Flanagan – Part I | Part II | Part III
- Mental Preparation for Competitive Sprinting
- The Illusion of Competency Versus the Desirability of Expertise: Seeking a Common Standard for Support Professions in Sport
- It’s silly to assume all research funded by corporations is bent
- Game vs. Brain: New Hope for Detecting Concussions on the Sidelines
- Catapult Sports High Performance Practitioner Interview: Grant Downie
- Catapult Sports High Performance Practitioner Interview: Paul Brice
- Talksport Special: Science of High Performance Special
- Free Ebook – Post-Exercise Recovery: Fundamental and Interventional Physiology
- Using MATLAB to catch athletes who cheat
- Optimal Balance Between Force and Velocity Differs Among World-Class Athletes
- Periodization Paradigms in the 21st Century: Evidence-Led or Tradition-Driven? By John Kiely
- Reducing Injury in Elite Sport – Is Simply Restricting Workloads Really the Answer? By Paul Gamble
- An invisible unicorn has been grazing in my office for a month… Prove me wrong
- TEDxAdelaide – Lorimer Moseley – Why Things Hurt
- Alterations to the orientation of the ground reaction force vector affect sprint acceleration performance in team sports athletes by Bezodis, North & Razavet
- Investigating the efficacy of neurofeedback training for expediting expertise and excellence in sport by Christopher Ringa, Andrew Cookeb, Maria Kavussanua, David McIntyrea, Rich Masters
- Elite Football Player Engagement with Performance Analysis
- HMMR Media Sport Science Monthly Review
Podcasts
- Pacey Performance
- Irishman Abroad
- Dylan Moran
- Bernard Jackman
- Ronan O’Gara
- Keith Wood
- Tommy Tiernan Part I | Part II
- Graham Linehan
- Rugby Coach’s Corner
Business/Productivity
- Forget Technology. The Real Military Edge Comes From Promoting Smart People
- Ten Reasons Your Performance Review Doesn’t Matter
- Todd Rose on the Myth of Average
- Warby Parker is getting better results by reducing managers’ control over workers
- Why Everyone Thinks They’re Doing All the Work
- Why Etsy engineers send company-wide emails confessing mistakes they made
- It’s Time to Stop Talking About EQ, Because It Doesn’t Actually Exist
Education
- We need fewer exams and more wilderness in education – Ben Fogle
- Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with ‘topics’ as country reforms its education system
- No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
- CV of failures: Princeton professor publishes résumé of his career lows
- Should You Stop Teaching The Curriculum?
- ‘Big data’ was supposed to fix education. It didn’t. It’s time for ‘small data.’
- The way you’re revising may let you down in exams – and here’s why
- “Design for Classroom Orchestration”, position paper by Pierre Dillenbourg
- Personal Learning Graphs
- The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
- Your Brain on Maths: Educational Neurononsense Revisited by Neuroskeptic
- Unconference professional development: Edcamp participant perceptions and motivations for attendance
- A reward-based approach could be key in adolescent learning
- Predicting creativity and academic success with a ‘‘Fake-Proof ” measure of the Big Five Jacob B. Hirsh, Jordan B. Peterson
- Occupy Your Brain by Carol Black
Miscellaneous
- Is humanity evolving into a hive? Sugata Mitra
- Rule No. 1 for being Internet-smart: Never read NaturalNews
- Why Many Doctors Don’t Follow ‘Best Practices’
- Flossing and the Art of Scientific Investigation
- Bots Unite to Automate the Presidential Election
- The Myth of the Neurotic Creative
- The empty brain – Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
- What happened when a professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant
- MBTI, If You Want Me Back, You Need to Change Too
- Why science needs to break the spell of reductive materialism
- Twitching In Your Sleep Is More About Mapping The Brain Than Chasing Rabbits
- Big Science is broken
- How do artists make a living? An ongoing, almost impossible quest
- Under attack: Curbs on free speech are growing tighter. It is time to speak out
- 6 books to help you answer big questions about yourself
- The social media tipsters who win when you lose
- How social media can distort and misinform when communicating science
- A Manifesto Against ‘Parenting’
- Introducing the Straw Man Fallacy – How to Kill the Big Bad Wolf
- Minimum Viable Transformation: Change should be Small and Imperfect
- Rick Roderick on Foucault – The Disappearance of the Human
- How philosophy can save your life | Jules Evans | TEDxBreda
- Why CBT is falling out of favour
- Stunning Videos of Evolution in Action
- What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
- Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
- How subtle eye signals help turn-taking in conversation
- Brain training – why it’s no walk in the park
- Why do we keep on seeing the Sasquatch that isn’t there? What sightings of crypto-beasts say about humanity
- Everyone fails, but only the wise find humility
- Jordan Peterson: A history lesson for political radicals
