We all know we are “coaches”, but what are we actually doing when we coach? Is what we do working? What is “good” coaching? Questions we all might have asked ourselves, at some point during our coaching careers. Idealistically, I’d look to help a player be the best version of him- or herself rather than …
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Whole-Part-Whole — time for another look?
Back in 2014 I posted a simple page describing the “Whole-Part-Whole” session plan — play a game (“Whole”), coach a specific skill component relevant to that game (“Part”), then play the game, or a conditioned version of the game, again (“Whole”, again). Just a description, filed under “coaching resources” alongside some more traditional session plans …
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Q: What is “better coaching? A: It has to be more than new drills & games, more than techniques & affordances.
There have been some interesting conversations recently around the perceived weakness of the current player development pathway in England & Wales, whether looking at the excessive cost (to parents) of inclusion on a County pathway or the impact of the relative age effect on access to and inclusion in the pathway. The highly selective structure …
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