Tag: bloganuary
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Dreams are sometimes nightmares
You thought you would love it. You got into to coaching because you thought that you could make a difference. But now you find that it has taken up all of your time. You are coaching in an unerresourced area, so quite a bit of your time is spent being player transport and trying to…
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What makes a good leader?
What makes a good leader? What a great way to pose the question. It highlights that leaders are made not born. Leaders are made through experience. You have to lead to come into your own as a leader. For coaches who hope to develop their athletes into leaders, that means, you have to give them…
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I hate that drill
Most sports have a variation of the drill. Players stand in line for what feels like an eternity as they watch one person perform a movement. In soccer, that is watching as another player takes shots on goal. In basketball, you might be watching someone perfect layups. In football, you sit and watch as the…
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A quick post
This will be a very quick post. There is a power in feeling seen. In knowing that despite the mistakes you make that others will still be there for you. For that reason, it can be healing to be part of a real team atmosphere and to have a caring coach. Teammates and coaches can…
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Are you doing too much?
You finally have seen the light when it comes to sports-based youth development. You wanted to start incorporating all of the tenets in your practices, but now you are exhausted and questioning whether or not you should even try this. I mean you were struggling to even fit in stretching before and now you are…
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Barking in public
It is not unusual to hear grownups barking in public. At sporting events, they do so on beat with thousands of others. At an airport, they do so after locking eyes with someone wearing the right pattern of colors. Rather than acting like animals, they are acting like they are part of the group. Their…
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In one ear
When I get online, I spend most of my time receiving messages. I watch videos. I read blogs. I take in what others are saying. I receive a lot of messages, and then that is that. I know that I received a lot of information, but if you ask me the next day all what…
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Was that really a field?
I headed back from the tournament with a badly skinned knee. The running joke was that the soccer field was actually just a tennis court spray painted green. There was zero give as I fell, as would normally be provided by dirt and grass. It instantly broke the skin. The field, if you could call…
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Just like peanut butter and jelly
It goes together like peanut butter and jelly, a way of saying how obvious a pairing two items are. Or maybe how well two things go together. In either case, I don’t know if you could say that for sports and youth development. Though you probably would want to. Sports can go great with youth…
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What if recruiting was done a little differently?
Wild idea. You know how athletes go on recruiting visits and send out film to impress coaches? What if we flipped that? What if we consulted with kids to help them spot the signs of the best coach and program for them. We would work through the coach’s claims as the first step. Then we…
The Sideline Fix 