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Samantha Wright is a driven and determined sportswomen who was missing one or two pieces in her high performance skillset. These missing pieces were stopping her moving towards her true potential. This is the story of finding those pieces and what happened next -in her own words. Thank you Sam for sharing your inspiring story (so far).
Can you share a bit of background on your situation and how things were for you before you started …
As a coach when dealing with parents of your players its important to remember this key point. If the parents’ of your players didn’t care, they wouldn’t make such a noise, fuss or try to interfere so much. In my experience, behind almost all parents ‘meddlesome’ behaviour is the positive intention – they want the best for their child. Unfortunately their ways of expressing their positive intention are often poorly chosen, simply because they don’t know a better way.
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Sports Coaches have a challenging job. They require so many different skillsets, coupled with a very specific mindset to become a great coach.
Most sports coach training is focused on how to instruct and/or teach skills or drills. Unfortunately if you teach or instruct a skill it does not mean that your player has learnt that skill. Even if you repeat the instruction/demonstration five times or more.
The next level of Sports Coaching is becoming a Facilitator Coach – a …
Extracted and updated from – from Raising Talent
Intro
People using the Raising Talent system are challenged to find a variety of experts in various fields and create a virtual or actual “A-Team” of expertise to stretch their thinking and further their progression towards their dream. The challenge is that it’s hard to pick an expert in a field you don’t have much knowledge of – here is a strategy on how to do that.
Core principles
Holders of expert …
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On the 1st of March 2014 the South African u19 cricket team made history by winning the U19 World Cup final. They bowled out Pakistan for 131 in a disciplined and dominant bowling display that was spear-headed by Kagiso Rabada, the second top wicket taker of the tournament. On the day all-rounder Corbin Bosch took the man of the match award with figures of 4 wickets for 15 runs. Bosch’s bowling partnership with Justin Dill …