Coaching

I’m very much looking forward to facilitating ‘relearn Team Sports’ with Ric Shuttleworth from next month onwards. Whilst I expect many of the challenges and curiosities people bring will relate to on-field practice and learning design, there is an…

fragments of thought #1

Intentions…initially I was thinking of making a straightforward case for addressing the good, or otherwise, intentions of key influencers in a sport system. My logic being that those with good intentions…

In Complexity Thinking in PE, Richard Tinning and Anthony Rossi write ‘In the face of messy, unruly, boisterous classes of school children and the expectation to deliver predictable, explicit, educational outcomes, teachers of physical education are likely to reduce complexity and have their pedagogy…

(a slightly amended version of this article was first published in 2015 in issues five & six of the Player Development Project magazine)

In the backyard of an Australian home, a young boy tries to chip a football over a small…

It’s taken a couple of weeks but finally I’ve found the time to wrap up some previous posts (here and here) that helped me clarify some thinking for part of a presentation I gave at a conference in Évora, Portugal . In that time I’ve also come…

I’m looking forward to a whirlwind visit to Évora, Portugal in a couple of weeks to be involved in the International Congress for “Exercise and Health, Sports and Human Development”.