Coaching Matters, a round-up of the articles I have found interesting in the past week relating to coaching, sport science, physical preparation and skill acquisition.
I love the quote above by Ronaldinho (thanks for the recommendation Tom Farrow). As a young Coach I was more interested in being seen to do the right thing than being free to do what felt right. Fumbling to find my way it was easier to copy others but as you gain experience (in life and Coaching) you become happier in your own skin and find it easier to distinguish the music from the din of nonsense. I study and interact with other coaches as often as I can with a view to hearing the music and doing it my way so the quote really resonates.
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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. If you like this type of round up also be sure to check Sporticus‘ series The PE Playbook – December 2016 Edition
Top 5
- John Kiely: Traditionalist or innovator: When you find yourself on the side of the majority… What do you do?
- My Fastest Mile: A different way
- Ronaldinho: Letter to My Younger Self
- Terry Condon: Let your athletes drive the bus…..on the roads you built
- Charlie Rose interviews Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of “South Park”
Best coaching style? Easy – one that is genuine to you. Learn from – don’t try to imitate – others. Players want authenticity, not actors.
— Wade Gilbert (@WadeWgilbert) January 11, 2017
General Sports/Coaching
- A strict, hard-nosed culture is no longer the hallmark of winning NFL franchises
- When Rugby World went on tour with the Barbarians…
- Football clubs suffering as owners experiment with chaos theory
- Paul Kimmage meets Rory McIlroy: The truth about the Olympics, close friendship with Tiger and the important things in life
- Robert Kitson: Rugby is ruled by the super coaches, but their reigns are short and sweet
- Performance Analysis Part I: Solutions no longer support best coaching practice!
- Performance Analysis Part II: Questioning within Performance Analysis
- There’s more to training than sweat and tears
- Gary Klein: The Myths of Moneyball – The dangerous messages of a best-seller
- Dr. Mike Marshall Free ebook: Coaching Pitchers
- Ed Smith: How two psychologists found the perfect balance between confidence and doubt – Interesting parallels with the The TED talk by Margaret Heffernan above about Dr Alice Stewart & George Kneale
- What is a “Coach”? by Dan Flanick and Mark Rippetoe
- Trent Woodhill, the unstructured coach behind some of the greats
- ‘Practitioner Health’ – Making Practice in Elite Sport Sustainable
- Steve Magness: My Rules of Coaching and Learning for 2017
- Conversational Rugby: Reading the Play in Defence: Visual Cues
- PED’s – Not just cheating, its fraud
- Manchester City will get off lightly over breaking anti-doping testing rules, say athletes
- David Flatman: We must support the crackdown on high tackles
- Life on the Run: the couple who exposed Russia’s state-sponsored doping programme
Skill Acquisition/Dynamic Systems
- Creativity: How Constraints Drive Genius
- Nick Winkelman: Attentional Focus and Cueing for Speed Development
- Mark O’Sullivan: Creating Decision-Makers
- Train Ugly: Why We Don’t Learn and how to change that
Physical Preparation
The physio treatment pyramid… build it up from the bottom first! 😉 pic.twitter.com/J4kMncL9qU
— The Sp⚽️rts Physio (@AdamMeakins) January 13, 2017
- Dan Baker: Implementing High-Intensity Aerobic Energy System Conditioning for Field Sports
- Speed Myths Part I: Sprinters are born by Henk Kraaijenhof
- Speed Myths Part II: Get strong, sprint fast… by Henk Kraaijenhof
- Chris Beardsley: Why are strength gains velocity-specific? (strength is specific)
Sport Science
- Shaping Analytics In Rugby
- Talking Talent: Developing Mental Toughness – An Overview: Dr Lee Crust (University of Lincoln)
- Unintended Consequences, Special Interests, and Our Problem with Sugar By Gary Taubes
- Americans Eat Too Much Cake, but the Government Isn’t To Blame By Stephan Guyenet
- A supplement maker tried to silence this Harvard doctor — and put academic freedom on trial
- Rugby Strength Coach Podcast: Sport science, stats & skin in the game with Mladen Jovanovic
- CallingBullshit.org: How to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the social and natural sciences
- The Secret Soccer Analyst: Mo Moneyball Mo Problems
This is a great paper by @mike_mcguigan we should adopt a balanced view – if you use twitter for information (… or everyone!) read this. pic.twitter.com/xpK97y9DgC
— Dr Ben Jones (@23Benjones) January 13, 2017
Education
- Philosophy can teach children what Google can’t
- Growth mindset: practical tips you may not have tried yet
- Sporticus: Purposeful PE
- The power of talking sideways to children
Business/Productivity
- Elon Musk Takes Customer Complaint on Twitter From Idea to Execution in 6 Days
- Why every office should scrap its clean desk policy
Miscellaneous
- Pizza, politics and pure fiction: the rise of fake news
- Why social media is like the railways – and must be saved
- The things we can really learn from books
- How Alem Matthees’ letter helped solve Chronic Fatigue Syndrome mystery
- Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job
- The More You Swear, the More Honest You Are
- The problem with resilience
- The perils of explaining science, living to 500, what’s good for your teeth and the future of stargazing
- Resistance to the Antibiotic of Last Resort Is Silently Spreading
- The Deceptions of Luck: Nature makes chance, humans make luck
