Welcome to the lastest edition of Coaching Matters, the articles I have been reading through October 2013.
The big talking point this month is concussion. The NFL lawsuit, resignation of Dr Barry O’Driscoll as medical advisor to the IRB over their new protocol and concerns voiced by Dr James Robson were highlighted once again when Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was knocked unconscious in a collision with Everton striker Romelu Lukaku. Spurs’ Manager, Andre Villas Boas, allowed him to stay on the field as he believed the keeper looked capable of continuing and claimed he made the correct decision as Lloris made an important save minutes later. Villas Boas has been heavily criticised by FIFA and brain injury charity, Headway.
I was watching the game at my local pub and many of the comments made by those watching proved that there are many ill informed people on the dangers of concussion which is especially frightening given quite a few of them are parents of children playing football.
Aside from that there are a plethora of interesting articles on everything from Tim Michin’s talk on life lessons to the power of placebo. As usual I have selected a Top 10 as well as dividing them into sections covering Skill Acquisition, General Coaching and Sports Science/Physical Preparation.
Special mention this month to Stuart Lierich, a kicking coach from Australia who has been putting together some excellent free resources from blogs to videos on a wide range of coaching topics. His website, Youtube Video Channel, Twitter account and Google+ channel are a must follow for any coach.
Don’t forget that 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.
Top 10 Articles
- Understanding Talent – Video
- Tim Minchin 9 life lessons- Video
- Henk Kraaijenhof – Coaches & education an ongoing concern of mine
- The full interview with Sir Alex Ferguson by Charlie Rose – Video
- The dangers of pseudoscience
- Interview with John Ackland – Rugby League Coach & Scout
- How to read a scientific paper – a guide for non-scientists
- Ruck Marks – the actual story of the British & Irish Lions in stats
- ESPN 30 for 30 – No Crossover, the trial of Allen Iverson – Video
- The development of skill in sport – Côté, Murphy-Mills & Abernethy
Skill Acquisition
- Blocked vs Random Practice
- Advice about Learning Styles: A major myth in Education
- The Quiet Eye and its application to skill acquisition and sports performance
- AC Milan focuses on brain power to develop young players
- Constraint based training
- What has chess got to do with team sports?
- Choking in Sport – Video
General Coaching
- How daydreaming can make you smarter
- The work ethic of Sonny Bill Williams
- Why you should fill your company with athletes
- Status Quo bias confirmed
- Scott Adams’ secret of success: Failure
- The 4 keys to learning from failure
- Is music the key to success?
- AFL take leading role at Leaders in Performance Conference
- Swiss method of career planning
- The worst neurobollocks infographics on the web
- Inside Padraig Harrington’s head
- Brain Development infographic
- Improving team meetings
- Brendan Rodgers believes dull coaches are holding back English Players
- Kevin Davies: Train more coaches and revive the love of the game
- Evaluation of 4v4 mini leagues
- Emotional Intelligence in Coaching
- How a radical new teaching method could unleash a generation of geniuses
- Searching for the next Lionel Messi – the life of a football scout
- Increase your team’s curiosity
- Cheap shots do Ferguson no favours
Sports Science/Physical Preparation
- Euro trips are no jolly jaunts – The Secret Physio
- Training talk with Dan Pfaff
- What’s it really like to be an intern?
- 11 things learned from Ido Portal on human movement
- What are you training for?
- Obesity – a wider understanding
- The fat fuelled brain – Unnatural or Advantageous?
- Interview with Paleo critic Alan Aragon
- Calories, starvation and bygone gurus
- Your daily multi-vitamin may be hurting you
- Notes from the EIS workshop by Frans Bosch – courtesy of @RhysIngram – follow him on Twitter
- Malcolm Gladwell – by the book
- John Ronson meets Malcolm Gladwell
- Gladwell – If my books appear oversimplified, you shouldn’t read them
- Cut out muscle cramping
- Q&A on Peter Weyand’s research
- Sports Science pushes rugby players to their limits
- Basketball player strikes back at NBA Analytics nerds
- Exercise good for body and brain – molecular link found
- Insight into Philadelphia Eagles Conditioning Program
- Who’s afraid of peer review?
- A multi-dimensional approach to enhancing recovery
- Frustrated medicos leaving NRL over raft of concerns
- RFU medical chief says health benefits of rugby outweigh the risks
- Sports Supplements – now with Methamphetamine!
- Popular sports supplements contain meth like substance
- IRFU advises under 18’s not to use sport supplements
- IRFU warn of banned substances potentially lurking in some supplements
- 2014 Combine training at Athlete’s Performance – Video
- Clinical tests of the hip with Dr Mike Reiman – Video playlist
- Rugby Injuries – STOP Sports Injuries tweetchat
- To statically stretch or not
- Vision training
- Lance Armstrong, Antihero
- The dirtiest race in history
- Incompetent regulation of alternative therapy
- Placebo effects of an ergogenic aid on atheltic performance
- Lying to win – Placebos and Sport Science
- Why mobility could be bad for athletes
- Why does my shoulder hurt?
- An inside look at how Doctors perform ACL surgery
- Lessons in bad science – Tim Noakes and the SAMJ
- What the heck is the biological passport anyway?
- The thin ice of science translation
- The benefits of cold water immersion – Video
- Trouble at the lab – why science is not self-correcting
- Training for rotational power
- The big question in big data is – What’s the question?
- Fight, Flight and Freeze – how timing athletes increases performance
- Does Advil hurt healing?
- Leaders in Performance launch Magazine
- Science based training with Dr Yessis – Video
