Minutes from the 4 August 2010 USAG New Jersey State Board Meeting are available. View HERE.
Category: Coaching
Opening Team Rituals
Opening Team Ritual concept from Positive Coaching Alliance and Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports library.
Coaching Tip: Teaching Players to Respect Officials
Article reprinted from the Positive Coaching Alliance Newsletter – 22 July 2010 More information at www.positivecoach.org Teaching Players to Respect Officials An important life lesson that can come from sports is the need to respect people. Youth athletes who learn to respect officials, even when disagreeing with them, can apply that learning throughout their lives…
An Olympian’s View of Gymnastics
Samantha Peszek’s Top Ten Reasons to Get Involved in Gymnastics
Athlete Behavior in Practice
Following is “Ask PCA” question and PCA’s response from the July 27, 2010 Positive Coaching Alliance Connector Newsletter: How Can I Better Manage Player Behavior in Practices? “I coach an unruly but likeable group of 4th-grade girls in soccer. We’ve had problems with behavior in practice, including fistfights and players disappearing for 15 minutes with no adult…
Phil Jackson on Group Therapy
Phil Jackson talks about his love for “Group Therapy”. Jackson coaches the (come from behind in Game 7) 2010 NBA Champion Lakers.
In Honor of Coach John Wooden
John Wooden on True Success was recorded in 2001 and is imbedded here from TED (www.ted.com). With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom….
Judges (Umpires) Make Human Calls
Article from Positive Coaching Alliance Connector (Newsletter) June 3, 2010 A Perfect Ending to an Almost-Perfect Game Despite last night’s (6/2/2010) obvious and admitted blown umpire’s call that cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galaragga the last out of what would have been a perfect game, the aftermath exemplified PCA’s principle of Honoring the Game. Instead…
Remember, Your Athlete is a Creative Thinker!
Here’s a very interesting and humorous presentation that makes you think about how we view our athletes and may help you evolve your coaching style. It’s been around for awhile now, but more true today than ever. Other thought provoking presentations can be found at www.ted.com. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re…
Don’t Become a Bus Company!
An article from Seth Godin’s blog that applies to our business, teams, coaching and individual actions. We all have a vision of the typical bus company, slowly moving people from place to place, going through the motions and showing a lot of fatigue. Some of the elements that make an organization feel like a bus…
Why We Compete
Why do we compete? Listen to some excellent insight from NHL Coach Tony Granato. Video from Liberty Mutuals Responsible Sports.
Coaching Tip: Use Positive Charting to Catch Players Doing Things Right
The following article is from the March 18, 2010 Positive Coaching Alliance Connector newsletter. The Positive Coaching Alliance can be found online at www.positivecoach.org. Coaching Tip: Use Positive Charting to Catch Players Doing Things Right As a coach, have you found yourself in the trap of thinking “coaching equals correcting”? Too often, we feel we add value…
Your Legacy as Coach
This is the first monthly (maybe more often) Educational Posting. When we find information that might benefit our gymnastics community, it will be posted under the “Education” category. Your Legacy as Coach – (Excerpted from the new book, The Power of Double-Goal Coaching by Jim Thompson, PCA Founder and Executive Director, with a foreword by Phil…