Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Coaching is Teaching
How do you teach? How you reach determines you effectiveness as a coach. It was drilled into me when I was in college and student coaching that coaching was teaching. Fortunately early in my career I ...
What Matters
In life and in coaching it is important to focus on what matters. What matters most is relationships – people – the human element. It seems like this has been an ongoing theme in the blog this year. I...
GAIN 2014
The Gambetta Athletic Improvement Network (GAIN) is a community of professionals interested in learning and sharing to improve their abilities and enhance their professional status. GAIN 2014 will tak...
John Wooden – Master Teacher
Coaching is teaching and no one epitomizes that more than John Wooden. He was a teacher of basketball and life; his classroom was the basketball court. It is no coincidence that many of his ideas abou...
Twitter Coaching
As you know the goal of Twitter is get you message across in 140 characters or less. Over the years as I have observed great coaches I have seen what I call Twitter coaching. Great coaches are great t...
Lest We Forget
We coach people, not football players, tennis players, swimmers or jumpers! Remember athletes are not data points on a graph, Chris McCormack, Ironman Champion said it best: "We’re athletes. We’r...
Coaching Classics
I know I have published this list of coaching classics before but there are many new readers to the blog and followers on Twitter @coachgambetta and friends on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/lezv8tr and ...
Practice Breaker – Lectures
Starting practice with a long lecture is a surefire way to ruin the training session. Coaches are good at talking and love to talk, but the start of practice is not the time and place. Recognize that ...
Practice Breaker – Lines
Perhaps the most common practice breaker I see is lines. I was watching a soccer practice recently where 18 players were doing a shooting drill; there were two lines of nine with two balls. Do the mat...