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What if our understanding of skill development is fundamentally backward? We often assume that technical proficiency must precede...

Player—Led/Coach—Led When discussing youth sports, we often separate "play" and "practice" into distinct categories. Play is viewed as...

The Mafia With sweaty palms and white-knuckled grips holding onto anything to steady your pounding heart, imagine a boss standing...

Topic or Problems vs. Questions Juicy topic! It’s inspiring to see this shift happening in coaching circles. Traditionally, “playing a...

Photo by Kimberley French 1992 Explicitly State the Rules of the Game State the rules of the game—nothing more is needed, except perhaps...

Is it Possible? Can we, even for a short time, put aside the pressures to conform our coaching to match the weekend games? Instead of...

I hold great respect for the work of James Vaughn PhD. My thoughts here are less a critique and more an expansion on different ways to...

Do We Learn This Way?... Yours and my kid look just like this, beneath the facade of their human nervous system with skeletal chemicals...

We Often Coach Like the Airlines In the current landscape of youth sports, we often witness young athletes dressed in flashy uniforms and...

Game Based Learning Video games have long captivated people of all ages, offering immersive experiences akin to animated films. They...

Embracing the Uncharted In the ancient year 1978, M. Scott Peck penned this literary gem, urging us to embrace the road adorned with...

This entry was my response to a question posed to coaches in the membership section with Players Development Project PDP. I highly...

Coaching is Learning You know, it's pretty wild to think about why most young athletes drop out of sports. I mean, most of us see...

Fluid or Rigid Many times, we're drawn to the enchanting world of watercolors, yearning to immerse ourselves in the exquisite beauty they...

Schools and Seasons Have Started Isn't it fascinating? As summer draws to a close, schools around the world reopen their doors. It marks...

Parents Mean Well Contrary to what some might believe, most parents on game day are fantastic. They're cheering, not screaming, and their...

Spectator Codes of Conduct? The youth sports community faces a pressing issue - a significant decline in referees. Nearly half of newly...

Top 20%, Are the Most Vocal and Influence Our Youth Sports In the realm of youth sports, a significant power struggle unfolds, where the...

I Think Caution on Both Accounts You may think that teaching our youth and training them to do something is a good thing, yes? I believe...

Volunteerism is often likened to "Dad's Army," a phrase coined by Andy Pitchford, Head of the Centre for Teaching at Westminster in...