In recent months, the talk of the “Enhanced Games” has been getting louder. Promoters pitch it as a new frontier of sport: a stage where...

I've coached Olympic weightlifters for a few years now, and there's quite a lot of debate amongst coaches about training frequency and...

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....

Race and sport usually go together when ‘race’ has another meaning! But in this case, the nonsensical debate in US about the so-called...

I started this post to talk about the recent adverse analytical finding against the Russian Olympic Committee’s 15-year old skater,...

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...

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...

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...

In 1971-72, Peter Snell attended the legendary Loughborough Colleges Physical Education Department as a Scholarship student from New...

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...

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...

I ended my last post signalling the next topic of assessing skill performance. To reiterate an earlier point, even professional scouts...

Selecting your junior team by a skills assessment. A friend was struggling with his innate reluctance to agree with a coaching colleague...

North Harbour Rugby’s decision over the last few days to scrap its junior representative programmes below the age of 17 has,...

Now the Australian Open is over I thought I’d make some coaching observations about player behaviour and ask questions about what coaches...

As I’ve suggested in previous posts, it’s essential that the ethics and morals of ‘good clean sport’ are taught, learned and practice....

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...

Yesterday, Russian President, Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Russian sport was affected by widespread doping, but that the Russian...

In a 1988 speech Chair of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan said disarmingly, “If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have...

In the last three years, a sequence of formal inquiries into coach behaviour have revealed the worst in unethical coaching. Not only in...