What is Talent? Posted Friday, 6 December 2013 Ahead of the recent Performance Leadership Summit in Cape Town some answers to the question “What is Talent?” were collected. David Epstein (author of “The Sport Gene”) chose the best ones and commented on them. David will make a presentation “Factors Determining Performance in Elite Athletes” at the PADSIS Conference... Read article
Book Review: The Rare Find Posted Friday, 6 December 2013 Spotting Exceptional Talent before Anyone Else George Anders Published by Portfolio Hardcover Published on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 ISBN Number 1591844258 "The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent before Anyone Else". George Anders This is a book about identifying talent and predicting high performance. It takes examples from a number of... Read article
England and All Blacks at Twickenham Posted Friday, 6 December 2013 What we can learn from the two coaches A magnificent match between teams led by two of the best coaches in world sport. Under Hansen’s leadership the All Blacks have earned number one world ranking. Lancaster’s transformation has enabled England to rapidly move from sixth place and challenge for second... Read article
Games Coaching: Do Children Learn by Listening - or Doing? Posted Friday, 6 December 2013 Most teachers and coaches faced with the question of whether children best learn games by listening or doing, would have little difficulty in opting for the latter. Faced with this fairly unanimous conclusion, it would not be unreasonable to expect to find school games coaching dominated by high levels of... Read article
The Expedition as a Rite of Passage Posted Friday, 6 December 2013 Initiation in Aboriginal society was a process that took place in stages from puberty to young adulthood. Usually the focuses was on making boys into men, perhaps because girls naturally go through the physical and emotional transformations of menstruation and childbirth whereas boys have no similar experience. Other societies have... Read article
Recommended Bronze Award Locations Posted Friday, 6 December 2013 In the last issue of the PALOES newsletter we asked readers where they preferred to run their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme Bronze Training and Assessments. Here are some of the replies we had: @myDofELife tweeted - bronze expeds in South Hams (training/prac) +E.Dartmoor(Bovey Valley), give nice progression through and... Read article