Identifying Age or Potential
Originally published by Los Angeles Sports & Fitness, January/February 2009. My first organized sport was soccer. In kindergarten, I joined a soccer club sponsored by my church. My teammates were...
View ArticleDeveloping Successful Performers: Learning from Spain’s World Cup Victory
On another blog, I saw an interview with Seattle Sounders Strength & Conditioning Coach David Tenney. He has an interesting response when asked about soccer development in the United States: I...
View ArticleKhan Academy as a Way to Change Athlete Development
There are four takeaways for me: 1. The knowledge map that he creates is essentially what we tried to do with the Train for Hoops program four years ago. Academics are suited for the program because...
View ArticlePlaying time matters, but so does grit
Originally published in Los Angeles Sports & Fitness, May/June 2015. As the game clock dwindled toward zero, and his son remained on the bench, the father wondered about the best course of action....
View ArticleYouth sports: What has changed and what needs to be fixed?
Every day, I read another article that is critical of youth sports. Identifying the problems is easy, but few of these articles make real, practical suggestions for the solutions, and I am unsure...
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