Kendal McWade from Instinctive Golf is back.
Recently, he dropped by for a visit for 2 days. He came to watch me coaching my regular Wednesday night group and then he coached a friend of mine as well as working me on my game and also coaching my son.
After dinner, we recorded some reflections of our experiences and shared our thoughts on our respective approaches and methods.
Some themes in this conversation are:
How to praise without giving praise
The difference and similarity of approach between team games and individual games
The nature of feedback and how most coaches and players are 'outsourcing feedback'
Our different approaches to questioning
Why coaching sessions should make the player's head hurt
....and a lot more
Enjoy
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This is a great chat with FA Coach Development Manager, Jack Walton. Jack has a wealth of experience in coaching and working with coaches so he has seen and experienced many of the challenges that most coaches face...
In this episode we discuss:
How Jack challenged me when he was listening to one of my workshops
How he helps coaches to develop coaching philosophy
His clubs approach to developing players
His thoughts on Nurture v Nature
Why decision making is so difficult to develop in players
and loads more....
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Calvin Betton has the life that would be the envy of many. He travels Europe coaching and helping young tennis players to strive to break into the professional ranks. It's a tough life but somebody's got to do it...right? Not necessarily...
In this episode we get an inside picture of the life of a tennis coach working at the cliff edge of the talent space...the key transition zone from promising junior to top level adult. In the episode we cover...
The big gap in coach education that meant that skill acquisition was only covered at level 5!
The questions he asked a tennis legend about the advice he was giving to aspiring players to use drills to become better tennis players
Why people don't understand what good coaching looks like
How he creates intensity using 'pressure training'
His innovative method of giving feedback called 'bandwidth feedback'
His approach to 'challenge point theory' called 'training on the edge'
There is a wealth of insight in here that we were able to benefit from because of a rainstorm in Greece...a brainstorm in the rainstorm (ahem)!!
Enjoy
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