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Stop Managing Behaviour. Start Designing Better Training Environments.

Stop Managing Behaviour. Start Designing Better Training Environments.

Behaviour problems in coaching aren’t fixed with control. Learn how better session design, games, and constraints create engagement and ownership.

 

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Why Games Beat Drills: How Constraint-Led Coaching Accelerates Player Learning

Why Games Beat Drills: How Constraint-Led Coaching Accelerates Player Learning

For decades, coaching sessions and PE lessons around the world have followed a familiar and largely unquestioned structure. Players line up, practise isolated techniques, repeat movements on command, and are rewarded with a short game at the end if time allows.

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Teach the game, beat the game

Teach the game, beat the game

By embedding learning objectives directly into the game and not just playing a game because students are asking, teachers shift from telling students what to do to guiding them to figure it out. You are creating students to experiment, adapt, and find solutions independently.

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How to be great junior sports coach

How to be great junior sports coach

Thanks to Lewis Bridle of Soccer By Design in Adelaide for coming on The Coaching Lab podcast! Checkout how Lewis and the coaches are delivering great sporting experiences to young people using MatchPlay Cards... We’re all about Small Sided Games...

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Are you playing games with purpose?

Are you playing games with purpose?

Park Sport Project is exactly that, a Scotland based charity creating a positive and fun environment for young people to learn through play. Huge lovers of small-sided-games, MatchPlay Cards©️ were the perfect fit for the the team at Park Sport...

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Make your game days player-lead

Make your game days player-lead

Game days are traditionally lead by coaches who are directing players with instruction but a recent festival with academy sides of Dundee, St Mirren and Wigan Athletic proved it can be done differently.  We sat down with Lead Foundation Phase...

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