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    Power of the dog and white (film industry) privilege
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 21
    • 4 min

    Power of the dog and white (film industry) privilege

    A topical post this week as this month we acknowledge world class women cricketers here in New Zealand for the Women’s Cricket World Cup....
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    Critical race theory and sport – who won?
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 5
    • 4 min

    Critical race theory and sport – who won?

    Race and sport usually go together when ‘race’ has another meaning! But in this case, the nonsensical debate in US about the so-called...
    59 views0 comments
    Skating on thin ice: doping young athletes and Russian rule breaking
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Feb 27
    • 3 min

    Skating on thin ice: doping young athletes and Russian rule breaking

    I started this post to talk about the recent adverse analytical finding against the Russian Olympic Committee’s 15-year old skater,...
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    Politics and sport: mix well for reality
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Feb 7
    • 3 min

    Politics and sport: mix well for reality

    After a long break and recent events in the world of sport, I thought it time to resurrect Coach Lawrence’s blog. The next few are about...
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    'Sciency stuff', experts, sport and public comms'
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    'Sciency stuff', experts, sport and public comms'

    More on my theme of trusting experts or Mrs Jones down the corner shop (apologies to Mrs Jones - it might have been Mr - and the corner...
    41 views1 comment
    Smashing vials - just normal!
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Feb 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    Smashing vials - just normal!

    Time for a bit of visualisation - Imagine yourself as an elite athlete. You've had a blood test as part of your participation in the...
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    Peter Snell in UK – a personal memory
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Dec 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Peter Snell in UK – a personal memory

    In 1971-72, Peter Snell attended the legendary Loughborough Colleges Physical Education Department as a Scholarship student from New...
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    Coaching and science collide
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Oct 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Coaching and science collide

    It’s axiomatic that coaching is an art and a science. Many presentations have been given and papers written under the title “the art and...
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    Coaching and science collide
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Oct 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Coaching and science collide

    It’s axiomatic that coaching is an art and a science. Many presentations have been given and papers written under the title “the art and...
    4 views0 comments
    Assessing skill performance & cheating parents
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Apr 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Assessing skill performance & cheating parents

    I ended my last post signalling the next topic of assessing skill performance. To reiterate an earlier point, even professional scouts...
    26 views0 comments
    Junior sport (2): selection trials - do they work?
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    Junior sport (2): selection trials - do they work?

    Selecting your junior team by a skills assessment. A friend was struggling with his innate reluctance to agree with a coaching colleague...
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    Junior sport and future success (1)
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 1, 2019
    • 3 min

    Junior sport and future success (1)

    North Harbour Rugby’s decision over the last few days to scrap its junior representative programmes below the age of 17 has,...
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    Broken racquets and highly strung players
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Jan 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    Broken racquets and highly strung players

    Now the Australian Open is over I thought I’d make some coaching observations about player behaviour and ask questions about what coaches...
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    Corruption in sport: teaching ethical behaviour in practice sessions (Part 3)
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Jan 9, 2019
    • 3 min

    Corruption in sport: teaching ethical behaviour in practice sessions (Part 3)

    As I’ve suggested in previous posts, it’s essential that the ethics and morals of ‘good clean sport’ are taught, learned and practice....
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    Corruption in sport: moral code or just rules? (Part 2)
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Dec 30, 2018
    • 3 min

    Corruption in sport: moral code or just rules? (Part 2)

    My last post addressed the essence of corruption as a matter of morality. This second post in the series on corruption focuses on how to...
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    Corruption in sport: society or sport itself? (Part 1)
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Dec 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    Corruption in sport: society or sport itself? (Part 1)

    Yesterday, Russian President, Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Russian sport was affected by widespread doping, but that the Russian...
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    Divided by a common language (and a post script)
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Sep 8, 2018
    • 4 min

    Divided by a common language (and a post script)

    In a 1988 speech Chair of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan said disarmingly, “If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have...
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    Coaches: where are our better angels?
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Aug 23, 2018
    • 4 min

    Coaches: where are our better angels?

    In the last three years, a sequence of formal inquiries into coach behaviour have revealed the worst in unethical coaching. Not only in...
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    Did you ‘consent’ to a punch in the face?
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Aug 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    Did you ‘consent’ to a punch in the face?

    My last blog on sports field assault, foreshadowed a conversation about the ‘consent defense’. Most people I’ve spoken to have either not...
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    A new punchline, an old problem
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Aug 8, 2018
    • 4 min

    A new punchline, an old problem

    Last weekend’s dreadful assault in an AFL game by Andrew Gaff on 18-year old Andrew Brayshaw, raises yet again, the question of ‘what was...
    19 views0 comments
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