The Motivational Speaker

The most critical category that underpins everything a coach does is his ability to communicate with his student athletes and coaching staff. Research shows"Coaching is a skill that can be developed and enhanced" but there are many skills and sets of skills the coach must develop, maintain and organize with a systematic approach to preparation, time management and programming, the motivational speaker is only one part of the coaches skill set. Think of Herb Brooks addressing his team before the 1980 game vs the Soviets, or Knute Rockne, "one man practicing sportsmanship is far better that fifty preaching it" These are the moments coaches strive and prepare for their whole coaching life.

Causal Knowledge

True or False

if we don't anchor ourselves down and build on fundamental principles we lose sight of the forest through the trees?

What is casual knowledge? Gravity, Ground Reaction, Mass and Momentum and how it applies to the Fundamental Movement Skills, Energy Systems and Injury Patterns. The need is to understand that causal knowledge is the foundation for The Sport Demand Analysis. As well as understanding the individual athlete and position.

With this Causal Knowledge we have Current Knowledge and in fact knowledge is actually what gives imagination it's power, the ability to connect the links between all sports, athlete's and coaches. Strength and Conditioning Coaches by their very nature say a lot of stuff that is based on their opinion in the gym environment while trying to sell or argue that opinion, which may or may not be true. If we go to the Causal Knowledge of the sport and athlete we will find lots of truth and eliminate the shifting common desires, perception and emotion driven by a single sport, coach or athlete.