I'd say that 70 - 80% of what I reads now comes directly oir indirectly from Twitter.
I am lucky enough to follow world class coaches like Stuart McMillam, Fergus Connolly, Tony Holler and Steve Magness, who are extremely inclined to share work from others that they find intriuging and that others might have an interest in as well.
Late last year or early this year I came across a gem from Andy Ryland - a US Rugby Coach - that I set out in table form:
When a player makes a "mistake" at training or in a game then these are the types of questions you should be asking, rather then simply judging off the result of the action.
Simply saying "you shouldn't make skill errors like that" is poor coaching and lazy at best, providing the athlete with nothing to use to not make the same mistake the next time.
What you also need to do as a coach or teammate is to put yourself in their shoes.
What you saw at that exact moment is probably not what they saw.
You probably weren't even in similar positions to start with so of course you couldn't have seen the same thing.
At different parts of the ground the lead up to that spoecific play was different in every way for the both of you - technically, tactically, psychologically and physiologically.
Craig Pickering of HMMR Media (another cracking account) says that 1 mode of communication has many different channels being:
- What you said
- What you actually said
- What your players/teammates hear
- What your players/teammates understand
- What your players/teammates remember
There was an exact situation like this in our game on the weekend just gone that I'll "case study" later this week or early next week but in the meantime - what questions are you asking and how are you asking them?
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