A look at the problems surrounding youth sports and strategies for coaches, parents and administrators to assist in developing young athletes into well-mannered and physically literate adults. A child should
never quit a sport they love simply because it is no longer fun for them!
Just because you taught it, does not mean they learned it as I have shared with coaches over the years. Don’t ASSUME when you write up a drill on a white board that every player will understand and be able […]
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(painfully so) This morning I read that the Vancouver Canucks players have banned playing video games on road, in particular Fortnite, as they feel they need to develop team chemistry, something that head coach Travis Green stated they did so […]
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As we are heading into a new fall season for various fall sports, ice hockey, soccer, volleyball, basketball and others, coaches will be meeting with parents, players and various other team meetings as they start their seasons. I am putting […]
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Especially Coaches, Scouts and GM’s My wife forwarded me some links to videos for a meeting she was having with her national organization recently and one I thought was definitely worth highlighting in particular more than merely posting to FB/Twitter. […]
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… the exception being April 6th, 2018 I never do back to back posts on same subjects, but this time was hard not to. The reason, after I wrote about the new coach Nathan Ostyrick (who ironically started his Junior […]
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Earlier this year I wrote on Tuckman’s development model of small groups and I read a great article this weekend in the National Post talking about Humboldt’s Comeback and they continue going thru their grieving period with a new team and […]
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For the last couple of months we have been going thru a move from our former office, a 2 story warehouse with office buildout that was very cold in winter, very hot in summer as we had no HVAC […]
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Last week I shared out the article that I contributed to in Today’s Parents Summer Edition, “What rep sports are really doing to kids” that was written by Courtey Shea and digital edition was released on Aug. 10th. I thought […]
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This past week my son was at his annual west coast prep camp that he started participating in several years back as a player where many top level players in hockey go for 10 ice sessions, games, dryland with […]
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