Monthly Archive: March 2014

Mar 11

Coaching Resource of the Month — March 2014

This is long overdue but March 2014′s Coaching Resource of the Month is SportsCoachUK’s blog. SportsCoachUK has a team of sport coach specialists blogging on a number of issues directly related to coaching including a new series on coaching apps. Highly recommend checking it out. They are a non-profit partially supported by the British Govt. (wouldn’t …

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Mar 11

Be Who We Be

“Be who we be. If we be who we ain’t, we ain’t who we be.” I said this to my team once in a pregame speech. What I wanted them to understand was that if we expected to be successful and reach the goals we set for ourselves, we would need to consistently be at …

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Mar 06

How Sport Coaches Learn

I love surfing through the SportsCoachUK website. Nothing like it based in the US. Chuck full of information for coaches and those who develop them. Never disappointed when I go there for information and resources. Recently I discovered a SportsCoachUK study dated January 2010 study titled “Coach Learning & Development: A Review of Literature.” The …

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Mar 06

The Power of Visualization & the Beatles

In the opening seconds of the Beatles song, , you can hear John Lennon providing instruction, “…picture your fingers.” I love that–the Beatles using visualization techniques to do their magic! Of course, the best recording of that song has to be the roof top concert version–the last time the Beatles played together in public. See …

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