Archive for February 2010

What Makes a Genius? Its the detail that counts for me

Peter February 19, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I managed to watch this programme in earnest this evening:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEqmcDLjHw Once again with Horizon gems like this, I find that the really exciting jewels for me are embedded in the detail of the programme. For instance – About 37 minutes in there is a ...

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Bilateral Co-ordination

Peter February 18, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

In “my day” we never did bilateral co-ordination as part of PE at school. Maybe it was in its infancy when I was – but it and balance are such an integral part of all sports that some ground work would be useful for everyone ...

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Keep Your Conscious Clear!

Peter February 17, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I was working recently with a 15 y/o cricketer, and we were coming to the end of the session so I spent quarter of an hour with him on throwing at targets. First we just explored dead aim from about 15m and he got the ...

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Winning Ugly – a Learning Experience

Peter February 14, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Yesterday the rugby team I coach were playing the bottom club from the adjoining geographical league and they should have strolled through the game to be honest. Generally, the pre-match prep was good as was the first ten minutes of the game – and after ...

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Another Clean Language outcome…

Peter February 14, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

This week I had a short consultative session with a client whose general issues were around weight loss, and getting back to feeling confident and not squeezing tightly into her clothes. In the course of the conversation it was apparent that she would be comfortable ...

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Pre-Match Team talks #3 – The Four Cartesian Questions

Peter February 10, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

One week I started my pre-match “few words” to the team I coach by mentioning the Butterfly Effect which pre-framed my point of invitation for the players’ thoughts. So (eg) does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Sao Paolo set off series of events ...

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Pre-Match Team talks #2 – Don’t Think of a Black Cat

Peter February 9, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Early in my coaching regime at one club I trod on the Manager’s toes big time. The side were coming back in to the changing rooms after their warm up routines, for the last 5 minutes before kick-off. As they trooped past the Manager he ...

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Pre-Match Team talks #1 – Big Game from You Today

Peter February 9, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

In my son’s rugby playing years from 16-18 he would recount, on a weekly basis, the pre-match talk of his manager. As a reasonably good impressionist, for him and a number of his team mates, this was increasingly a source of some amusement. The manager, ...

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Visualization and Coping with Distractions

Peter February 8, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Recently I read this abstract from the International Journal or Sports Psychology: Penalty shooting and gaze behavior: Unwanted effects of the wish not to miss – which you can read here:http://www.ijsp-online.com/content/abstracts/abstract3702.php#c11 Interesting study, and rather links to a number of my posts in the Prodigy ...

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Ezine Articles

Peter February 4, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

You will notice the logo off to the right of my blog pages for Ezine Articles. Having signed up with them, I will publish some of the longer forthcoming articles there rather than clog up the blog with over-lengthy entries. It also spreads the word ...

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