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Women, Sport And The Future

Posted Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Thinking differently about all three In 2009, I met a girl named Becky Nazi in London at the Beyond Sport Summit (an annual global gathering run by the organisation I work for that brings together influencers and innovators from all over the world to discuss the power of sport in...

Developing Sports Expertise

Posted Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Developing Sports Expertise Researchers and Coaches put Theory into Practice edited by Damian Farrow, Joseph Baker and Clare MacMahon Published by Routledge Published on Fri, 7 Jun 2013 ISBN Number 978-0415525244 ‘Developing Sports Expertise’ is a collection of essays aimed at undergraduate sports degree students. It is edited by three...

Putting Coaching on the Agenda

Posted Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Schools spend much time, energy, money and resources on their games programmes. Administration, facilities, equipment and kit are often first class. Thousands of coaching sessions and matches happen every week impacting on tens of thousands of children. But coaching often lags behind. Particularly if it is provided by willing, non-specialist...

The Running Shoe: Excellent Science or Excellent Marketing?

Posted Friday, 18 October 2013

The shoe industry has evolved most rapidly over the previous decade and will continue to evolve as new technologies and markets are formed. We are in an era where athletes are training in barefoot running shoes and it’s not uncommon for a shoe to carry a microprocessor to play music...

The Case Against High-School Sports

Posted Friday, 18 October 2013

Every year thousands of teenagers move to the United States from all over the world, for all kinds of reasons. They observe everything in their new country with fresh eyes, including basic features of American life that most of us never stop to consider. One element of our education system...

Research Summary: More than Just Physical Maturity. How coaches, parents and children all influence the Relative Age Effect

Posted Friday, 18 October 2013

This is a summary of new academic research (2013) from Canada that suggests that coaches, parents and children all influence the Relative Age Effect (a term to describe how top level sport is often dominated by players born at certain times of the year). It suggests three models used frequently...