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...

A coaching colleague recently shared some thoughts about coaching philosophy. He was exploring some ideas he’d often used sourced from a...

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...

My last blog on sports field assault, foreshadowed a conversation about the ‘consent defense’. Most people I’ve spoken to have either not...

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...

OKC star Steve Adams' reported explanation as to why he has not made himself available for selection to the New Zealand basketball team...

The recent clearance of UK rider, Chris Froome, to ride in this year’s Tour de France adds yet another sorry chapter to this historic...

The ball tampering events of the last two weeks left me thinking about the early experiences of elite athletes that set the ground work...