Our Top Articles of 2022 Focus on Coaching Development and New Models For Youth Sport Competition
Getting better and looking at things differently make our top 5 articles of 2022.
Welcome to edition 183 of The Physical Movement. We wind down the calendar year with a look back at some of our most read articles. Enjoy these and the holiday season!
The 2 itemized today focus on professional development for coaches and an example of looking at youth sport competition through a different lens.
The first on the list of our top articles from 2022 focused on coach improvement.
Coaches, that lack of effort you see on the field, the attention to detail you witness, that lack of confidence that you see in your athletes at crucial times and the demeanor of your athletes are often a mirror image of your coaching style.
While we coach youth sport with the best of intentions, the process of self improvement is not easy or comfortable, yet it is critical in breathing life into the experience for those we serve. Over my 30+ years as a coach and a parent I have witnessed so many coaching styles.
Teaching the skills of the game
At a young age, the youth coach has an important role in teaching the skills of the game. This is where many youth sport organizations put their focus in coaching development and rightly so.
With the shortage of coaches comes a shortage of skill development. The well-meaning coach relies on teaching cues of “try harder”, when in fact improving the teaching of technical skills would have a much greater impact on the experience.
Edition 168 covered this in detail in September. Here it is in case you missed it.
I have added a couple of articles on different sport models, what they are and why they are important. The most recent one is one of our more popular articles in 2022 was done in October.
Playing basketball as a youngster shouldn’t mean sacrificing family time and throwing away hard-earned money. If you operate youth basketball correctly, you will see more game-play improvement, healthy competition, and overall tactical, skill, and athletic development. - Lee Taft
Coach Taft has put forth a model for basketball, to offset the above that can also be applied to any other youth sport.
Edition 175 covered the New Basketball model. Here are the details: