sports-skills

The concept of Talent Identification – TID for short – makes sense.

Do some standardised testing and screening of lots of kids, find the ones who can run faster, run further, jump longer, stretch better than the rest and bingo- you found talent!

It all grew out of the now “mythical” talent identification systems of the old Eastern Block (and more recently China) – and the countless stories we have all heard for the past 30 years about how the centralised government systems put every child in the nation through a series of TID testing protocols and then funnelled them in to the specific sports where their talent was most likely to be developed to its full potential.

But in the western world, in spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at TID in Australia, the US, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Western Europe, with the exception of a few minor and specialised sports – it has failed and failed badly. (more…)

This “10000 hours to build a champion athlete” stuff seems to have popped up in a lot of places recently.

Just goes to show how many people in the world can write stuff about sport without knowing anything about it. (more…)

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Where is Sports Coaching heading? Where will it be in 2030? What will the average coach be doing everyday on pool deck or on the court or at the track or on the field? This article looks at the Future of Sports Coaching and suggests that if you take a moment or two to consider where the world is heading, then you will also see where coaching will be in 20 years.

Every professional sporting code in the world has problems with alcohol….specifically, problems with the way that players and athletes abuse alcohol. This article raises some important issues around sport and alcohol and offers some practical suggestions for players, coaches and administrators to help manage the issue in their sport.