My new AI coaching guru. A “conversation” with ChatGPT about coaching pedagogies.

There has recently been some discussion about a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called ChatGPT, and a lot of that talk very negative. How it might enable students to cheat by writing their essays for them, how it might destabilise white collar work, even how it might become a “morally corrupting influence”. For all that, …

Session plans — batting (hitting straight) and bowling sessions with u11s (hard ball).

I am setting myself a task for this year, to write up more session plans. My preference is to ad lib around a session “theme”. I know what I’m going to do next, but no-one else does, so the plans will be for the coaches I work with and also for a couple of the …

Making warm-ups more engaging, more fun, more relevant; introducing Zoom, Schwartz, Profigliano

Fascinating thread from Philip O’Callaghan aka @Mr_Tennis_Coach on the importance of the warmup. If you use it right, the warm up is one of the most important parts of the session. But coaching courses do a terrible job showing you how to make the most of it. Philip O’Callaghan Philip’s thread provides some activities that …