Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Lessons from GAIN 2015 – Randy Ballard on Trainability Assessment
Randy Ballard is an ATC who works with Volleyball and Track & Field at University of Illinois. Over the past three years Randy has taken elements of Kelvin Giles PCA (Physical Competency Assessmen...
The Comfort Zone
The comfort zone is just that a very comfortable place to be, it is a nice warm and fuzzy place that puts no demands on the person. Not much excellence is accomplished there precisely because it is ve...
The Creative Process of Coaching
Every composer starts with the same notes. Every author starts with the same alphabet. All artists start with the same palette of basic colors. Then why aren’t there more Beethoven’s, Hemingway’s and ...
Winning Culture
It is there and it is important. You can feel it! There is a sense of personal accountability from the superstars to the custodians, they are all in and believe each is equally important. Leadership i...
GAIN 2015 Lessons – Greg Thompson on PE as a Foundation
Greg is a elementary school PE teacher in Farmington Hills Michigan. It is hard to find a word to express this mans depth of knowledge and passion. If there is something more genuine than genuine Greg...
GAIN 2015 – Wrap-up
It has been over a week since we ended GAIN 2015 our eighth iteration of the annual program. Each one has gotten successively better and this one was the best. It has been hard to get back into the no...
Global Coach Conference Vierumäki 2015: early bird deadline June 30th!
Early bird deadline June 30th! I am privileged to present at this conference , hope to see you there. The early bird deadline for the ICCE Global Coach Conference in Vierumäki, Finland is Tuesday, Jun...
House of Cards
How can you expect an athlete to excel at the highest level if they are physically illiterate? You would not think of asking someone to write a book if they can’t spell, punctuate or construct a corre...
Discipline – An Outdated Concept?
I spend a lot of time with friends who are coaches. Invariably the topic turns to today’s athletes, and to one question: “Are they different? They certainly are different in many ways from the athlete...