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Real talk on coaching, leadership and sports parenting from Wayne Goldsmith — 30+ years working with Olympic programs worldwide. Challenging conventional thinking. Building better coaches, better parents, better athletes. waynegoldsmith.substack.com
Wayne Goldsmith hosts Sports Thoughts, a education show with 52 episodes published.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: * Why most coaches stop improving after their first few years; * The four habits of coaches who keep getting better; * How to build a professional development system that actually works. The Plateau
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: * Why technical knowledge is no longer your competitive advantage; * The three skills that separate good coaches from great ones; * How to keep developing when no one is developing you. Technical Kno
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Your child isn’t the next Tiger Woods. They’re not the next Serena Williams. They’re not the next Michael Phelps. Your child is a wonderful, unique, potentially incredible human being — different from anyone who’s ever l
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Some of the best coaches I’ve ever worked with were elite athletes. And some of the worst coaches I’ve ever worked with were elite athletes. Being great at playing a sport doesn’t automatically make you great at coaching
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By Wayne Goldsmith Introduction: Your athletes look great in warm-up and drills but fall apart when it matters because you’ve trained them to only perform skills when they’re comfortable. Let’s try something different! T
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By Wayne Goldsmith Introduction: We spend thousands of hours building stronger bodies and almost zero time building stronger minds. Three Critical Learning Points: * The brain is a “muscle”- “a mental muscle” — and like
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By Wayne Goldsmith With everyone trying to sell you everything — I thought I’d give you three things that will make you an even better coach. Three practical strategies you can do right now to enhance your coaching. And
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Let’s talk about Talent Identification. Most countries, all professional clubs, and even a lot of schools do some form of talent identification. And most of them are doing it wrong. Let me explain. If you ask the world’s
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By Wayne Goldsmith “What can I do, Wayne?” — Signed, Desperate Parent I get this message all the time: “My daughter was a great gymnast at 8. Winning regionals at 10. Competing nationally at 11. Now she’s 15 and wants to
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When you start out in coaching, someone will come in and talk to you about skills and technique and drills. And the traditional model goes something like this: Introduce a new skill. Demonstrate it. Get the kids to try i
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Your athletes can hit the time in training. They can execute the skill on Tuesday afternoon at the quiet local ground. They can do the task. But can they do it when and where it matters? After 10 hours on a bus. Sharing
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I’ve spent 35 years in sport. Most of that as a coach developer — a coach of coaches. Tens of thousands of hours with coaches who’ve achieved remarkable things: Olympic gold, World Championships, Grand Slams, professiona
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By Wayne Goldsmith Why aren’t kids coming back to your sport? The answer — and the solution — is standing on your sideline. Your coaches ARE the experience. Every session. Every interaction. Every moment that makes a kid
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There is no magic pill. No secret sauce. No one thing that guarantees success. The internet is full of people — usually selling something — telling you the “only” thing you need or the “best” way to do it. 30 years in th
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By Wayne Goldsmith This is part three of my trilogy on the Norway sporting success story. Part 1: Everyone wants to copy Norway — but you have to play like YOUR place. Part 2: I’d scrap all junior rep teams for under-14s
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Parents — sometimes you have to say NO. And mean it. We all love our kids. I’ve got eight — I get it. But I can’t tell you how many arguments I’ve had with sporting parents whose child didn’t get selected in a team and w
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What would you do if you had ONE session with a team you don’t know, in a place you’ve never been, sometimes in a language you don’t speak, in a sport you don’t understand? I am very lucky. I get to travel the world and
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By Wayne Goldsmith Thanks for the incredible response to the "Good Boys Make Great Players" video. A coach wrote to me and asked, "Wayne. How do I coach "good"? Great question.My answer: Stop seeing them as athletes. Sta
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I was visiting the Collingwood AFL Club here in Australia. Impressive facilities. Long history of success. Well resourced. Professional football team. They had a guy whose job was to take care of the players’ boots. Clea
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A lot of coaches, club committees and sports administrators complain that the reason their program, their team and their athletes are not competitive is due to poor facilities. “If we had a better court, our kids would b
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