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101 Coaching Tips

It takes 20 years to become an overnight success. Successful coaches have by a combination of experience, skill, education and practice, developed ways and means of getting the best out themselves and their athletes.

Here are 101 Coaching Tips to help you achieve your coaching goals.

Plan.
Develop communication skills and never stop trying to improve them.
Learn to effectively utilise the Internet, social media and email.
Never stop learning. Learning is for life.
Be open-minded. Never say, never.
What you may lack in knowledge, make up for with enthusiasm, desire and passion.
Be a role model for your athletes.

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Daily Athlete Training Environment – D.A.T.E.

Hot Topics, Sports Coaching

The Daily Athlete Training Environment D.A.T.E. is a term which is used to describe the day to day opportunities provided for an athlete to help realise their full potential. This article discusses the DATE concept and why the most important part of the DATE is the A….the athlete.

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Message to the Sporting World – Do it your own way!

Hot Topics, Sports Coaching

After the CLOSING ceremony of every Olympic Games, someone should yell out, “let the (real) Games begin”.

The real “GAMES”…………the junkets and fact finding missions the Sporting leaders from most countries embark on to find out what the USA, Germany, Great Britain, South Korea, China and Australia are doing to be successful in the Olympics.

The logic seems simple enough.

“Our country didn’t win any medals at the Olympics” says the Minister for Sport.

“Country XYZ won lots of medals at the Olympics”, says the CEO of the Sports Commission.

“Therefore if we want medals and we copy them we will win medals”, thinks everyone in the room.

“Hooray!!!! Problem solved – let’s buy some air tickets”.

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More Than the Medals: Making Sense of Athletes’ Performances at the Olympic Games.

Olympic Games, Sports Coaching

The Olympic Medal Count is a much talked about aspect of every Olympic Games. But what does it really mean? And does it really give an indication of the performance of athletes, coaches, teams and nations at the Olympic Games? This article looks behind the Olympic medal table and asks is performance at the Olympic Games more than just the medals?

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Sports Skills: The 7 Sports Skills Steps You Must Master in Every Sport.

Skills Development, Sports Coaching

Sports coaches all over the world have been devoted to the mindless repetition model of skills learning and mastery for the past 50 years. However, there is a huge difference between being able to perform sports skills well in training and being able to consistently perform sports skills under competition conditions, e.g. under fatigue, at high speed and under pressure. This article aims to challenge the old “practice makes perfect” coaching philosophy and replace it with a more competition focused approach of “Performance Practice”.

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Do it again: repeating success at the Olympics

Olympic Games, Sports Coaching

Winning in sport is tough. Winning again is even tougher. This article looks at the challenges and difficulties of repeating success in the most challenging sporting environment of them all….the Olympic Games.

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Gold Medal Parents: Little League Players need Big League Parenting!

Sport and Parenting, Sports Coaching

So you believe your child will be the next big thing in the Big Leagues? So you think it is inevitable that your son will win an Olympic Gold Medal one day?
So you are a 100% certain that your little girl will be the next world record holder? Gold Medal kids need Gold Medal parents. Little Leaguers who aspire to the Big Leagues need Big League Parenting. Are you up to the challenge?

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Grace under pressure is key to Olympic Success

Olympic Games, Sports Coaching

Pressure – and the athlete’s ability to perform under pressure when it really matters – will play a major role in the outcome of every Olympic event: every sport, every race, every match, every game, every fight, every lift, and every throw … pressure has more influence over who wins Olympic medals than any other factor.

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How to Develop World Class Coaches

Coach education, Sports Coaching

OK. Let’s talk about how to develop world class coaches.

Grab a piece of paper. On one side of the paper, write down the characteristics of a great coach.

Does your list include any or all of the following:

Outstanding communicator

Visionary

Leader

Innovator

Negotiator

Conflict resolver

Media manager

Public relations genius

Team developer

People manager

Technical / tactical / strategic skills of the highest order

Philosopher

Politician

Futurist

OK – now turn the page over and write down a list of all the coach education programs which cover the above?

Is this side of the paper blank? Yes? Then we can begin.

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To a Coach with a Hammer, Every Athlete is a Nail: Creativity in Sports Coaching.

Creativity

Coaching is creativity.

To the successful coaches of the future, creativity will be a core coaching skill: right up there with communication, passion, empathy, commitment, the ability to engage athletes and sports specific technical skill.

But what does it mean to be creative and to coach creatively. And to coaches who are not naturally creative, can they learn to be?

Or to the coach with a hammer, is every athlete a nail?

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High Performance on a Budget – can you create a high performance environment without spending any money?

High Performance Sport, Sports Coaching

As soon as someone mentions the words “high-performance” in sport, people start running for their cheque books and credit cards. The most commonly held view about high-performance sport is that you need significant investment and resources to run a successful high performance sports program. However, money alone does not guarantee success in high performance sport and almost any coach or Club can create a sustainable high performance environment by targeting and prioritising their resources on the right things at the right time. This article discusses how to prioritise in high performance sport and how to target the things that matter: the things that will make a difference where it really matters….the performance of your athletes

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Sports Psycho-physiology: The Way Forward in Successful Coaching and Sports Performance.

Performance Psychology, Sports Coaching

There is nothing new about integrating the Mind and the Body to realise successful sports performance. However, what is new is integrating Mind and Body in all aspects of sports coaching and athletic performance every day. This article discusses Sports Psycho – Physiology and challenges athletes, coaches, sports scientists and sporting organisations to reassess how they go about applying the integrated Mind-Body concept in their daily athlete training environment.

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