Look and listen and you will be surprised at what you see
and hear. Take the familiar and unknown and turn it around and make unfamiliar
and unknown. See your day to day world with new eyes. Look at it with childlike
wonder. Swimmers swim, runners run, jumpers jump, throwers throw but how do
they do what they do? Keep questioning. Watch a swim from underwater; watch a
runner or jumper from behind and in front. Close your eyes and listen to the
run the run or jump. Beware of confirmation bias – seeing what you are looking for.
Clear your mind and pretend you are seeing the movement for the first time. As
coaches our richest source of learning and information is the athletes we
coach. They are doing it – get their feedback – both verbal and non-verbal. In
coaching we should be growing with the athlete, it we get better then they get
better and vice versa.
As coaches we must challenge ourselves daily in order to be
able to continue to challenge our athletes. What are you going to do today to
challenge yourself to be better? What can you see, hear or feel at today’s
workout that will make a better coach? What will you learn from your athletes
today?