About 3 weeks ago I made a post consisting of 10 tips for improving team culture which I hope you’ve been able use or gbet something from and with club culture being so hard to attain at local/amateur level from player/admin turnover and interrupted continuity, here’s some more. By focusing on the “target” and hitting...
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FIXING JUNIOR FOOTBALL – IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT FOOTBALL
The problems with junior sport participation, including football, are very real. And let’s not think it’s just “juniors” either, we’re talking pre-teen and teenage participation numbers as well. 1 very crucial thing we must all remember when there is a change in how football is run at club or league level, is that it is...
GAME PLAN VIDEO PART 1 – STARTING POSITIONING
I made this up late last year based on a specific but popular ball movement option of using the quarterback position at the stoppage. Utilising the quarterback player/s efficiently and effectively is a team strategy over individual, as it requires great discipline to initially set it up then also to hold your position, create the...
KOBE BRYANT – THE MAN
Kobe’s very last tweet congratulating Lebron James on passing him for 3rd all time on the NBA scoring list: Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother 💪🏾 #33644 — Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) January 26, 2020 Shaquille O’Neal’s son Shareef received one of if not the final text from Kobe: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12303718&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utmc_campaign=nzh_fb&fbclid=IwAR3QCgQxAJ8oVOrBf4YZp-pFUnyJt9ySCflD5dUNi8mdg-_5-RwrLv-GoWA “…Kobe:...
KOBE MAMBA MENTALITY MINDSET
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28569694/remembering-kobe-bryant-relentless-curious-infinitely-complicated “…I could never understand, why winning wasn’t the most important thing to everyone. Why are you here then?…” https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2873343-what-made-kobe-different “…I have such a narrow focus, so I didn’t have much time to socialize at all. When I wasn’t training, I was writing and I was studying the art of writing, of film making. My...
JUNIOR COACH KOBE
In my original tribute Facebook post to Kobe I touched on what he was doing in the coaching of junior players and really believe he would have changed how junior coaching is done with what he was doing and how he was doing it. It wasn’t really anything new but for someone as competitive as...
MAMBA MENTALITY BOOK EXCERPTS
I had this on my to-get list for some time and finally got it 2 days ago and read it all in 1 hit. Here are my favourite bits: “…the biggest element that changed over time, however, was I went from watching what was there to watching for what was missing and what should have...
KOBE BRYANT MAMBA MENTALITY WEEK
As you are all probably aware of, NBA great Kobe Bryant died last week in a horrible helicopter crash with 8 others, including his daughter Gianna, and I’ve been watching and reading stuff on him literally all week. I purchased his Mamba Mentality book and read in 2hrs while taking notes from it (as I...
10 TIPS FOR IMPROVING CLUB CULTURE
We hear a lot about team culture at the elite levels of sport whether it’s the Sydney Swans Bloods Culture or Richmond’s team culture of recent years or in other sports such as the All Blacks in World Rugby and the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. At local/amateur level it’s never really given enough...
KOBE’S ADVICE FOR ALL JUNIOR COACHES
Rule 1 – Sit Rule 2 – Watch Rule 3 – Ask Questions The complete opposite of what junior coaches do at the moment. Kobe Bryant on coaching his daughters youth team🗣 “We could win more games if we micro managed & called more plays” “We sit back, let them process & figure things out”...