Igloos in the Desert: Play Like Your Place.
Igloos in the Desert: Play Like Your Place. By Wayne Goldsmith This isn’t so much an article as a plea. A desperate plea to every sports administrator, sporting leader, government sporting body, national sporting organization, club, coach…..everyone involved in the sports industry…….PLAY LIKE YOUR PLACE….
The Teenage Tumble: Why Teenagers are Leaving Sport
The Teenage Tumble: Why Teenagers are Leaving Sport By Wayne Goldsmith Kids are walking away from traditional, organized, competitive sport. The evidence is everywhere. Google the term “sport drop out rates” and start reading. Or go to your own national government’s sporting administration web site…
Sports Science: You’ve Still Got it Wrong.
By Wayne Goldsmith Sports Science is over-promising and under-delivering. There is no other way to put it. Sports science was – in the 1980s and 1990s – driving so much of the innovation and creativity that we now see as commonplace in coaching and athlete…
Selling Sport: The Influence of Coaches and Officials
Selling Sport: The Influence of Coaches and Officials. By Wayne Goldsmith We know that the number of kids playing competitive sport around the world is declining rapidly. We also know that in response to this decline Governments, National Sporting Organizations and Sporting Clubs are investing…
Elite Junior Athletes: There is No Such Thing.
Elite Junior Athletes : There is No Such Thing. By Wayne Goldsmith “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” (Steve Jobs) There are many myths, fables and legends in our wide, wonderful, weird world. We all know them. They were…
Sport Drop Out: The Three Sport Drop Zones
Sport Drop Out: The Three Sport Drop Zones. Every sport – in every nation – talks about the phenomenon of the sport “drop out rate”, i.e. the rate at which kids drop out from playing competitive sport during their teenage years. Everyone’s got a…
Top Ten Sporting Myths That Are Killing Your Sport
Sporting Myths Are Killing Your Sport. Life has its share of myths and legends. There’s the myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Wrong! In fact, there’s a lot of evidence that tall buildings and other structures are hit by lighting many…
How Coaching Courses Killed Coaching
Unscrambling the Egg: How Coaching Courses Killed Coaching. Recently I was asked to facilitate a workshop with the national coach development managers from many of the national sporting organisations in a particular nation. I asked them to bring their entry-level coach education resource or level-1…