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New book published: ‘Coaches’ Corner’
7th November 2024
Essays to help sports coaches and P.E. teachers. My latest book, ‘Coaches’ Corner,’ is now available to buy on Amazon. It contains over 50 essays about athletic development, coaching, and physical education based on my work over the last ten years as Head Coach of Excelsior Athletic Development Club. How and what I’ve coached has […]
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““When you start to coach, you coach the system you played, but you begin almost to immediately discard what doesn’’t fit you or your material, and you look for what does…. All of us are takers, but if a person can’t add something to what he takes from others, he should get out.””

Vince Lombardi in “Run to Daylight“.

I have had a conversation very similar to this to two different people in the last two days. One was with a physio talking about S&C coaches going on courses and then applying the new information indiscriminately to all and sundry.

The other was to a young person who wants to be an S&C coach and I said to go to lots of different sources at the beginning of her career, but then to establish her own ideas and philosophy as she gets more experience.

More Lombardi lessons from “Run To Daylight

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