Sports Versus Screens!
https://www.meer.com/en/69820-sports-versus-screens Sports versus screens: The sporting war against the machine The number of kids participating in organised, competitive sport is declining. It’s happening all over the world: rugby in New Zealand, football in England, swimming in Australia. Kids are just not rushing down to the…
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….
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…
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…
Changing the “End-User” Sports Experience
By Wayne Goldsmith end user noun [ C ] UK /ˈend ˌjuː.zər/ US /ˈend ˌjuː.zɚ/ “the person or organization that uses something rather than an organization that trades in it” (Cambridge Dictionary) The most common question I am being asked by clients, coaches,…
Junior Sport Rep Teams – They Must Be Stopped.
Junior Sport Rep Teams – They Must Be Stopped! By Wayne Goldsmith Around the world – in every sport – there’s an obsession with finding and developing talent. For the most part, this obsession leads to the creation of junior sport “pathways” which seek to…
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…
How to Save Your Sport.
How to Save Your Sport. There is no doubt that competitive sport is dying – and in many places – particularly in rural and regional areas – it’s already dead. More accurately – competitive sport – the way it’s been delivered to kids and families…
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…
New Sport – The Future of Sport
New Sport – The Future of Sport. By Wayne Goldsmith Sport is dead. More accurately “Old Sport” – the way we’ve designed, developed and delivered competitive sport for the past 100 years is dead. All over the world amateur sporting clubs are struggling. They’re experience…