In the last post I already indicated the importance of the individual. I have been going through a lot of books lately to look at the same information I have looked at before, but this …
Yes, it looks like I am slacking on my blog posts a bit. The main reason is I am working on two new books at the same time, which takes a lot of my time. …
I admit, this is one of my hobby horses and I like to ride it hard and often. In many fields of life, industry, medicine and sports, the scientific management principles of Taylor, mind you …
The first question that you should ask is: who are … “we” in the title of this post? To make it easy for you; in this context, “we” are coaches, the people working with athletes …
It obvious to see that the international track and field community is divided in its opinion about the proposal of the president of the European Track and Field federation Mr.Svein Arne Hanse to erase all …
Where do we, as coaches, get our technical and (self-)educational information from? Some colleagues may think that hardcopy books are out, so they rely on the Internet as their main source of information. Some colleagues …
One of the advantages of getting older is having the pleasure to go back your past.( If you are twenty years old, you don’t have a past, you only think you have a future). As …
It is a big thing right now in the US. Yes, one finally found out that the velocity of the execution plays an important role in movements too. Until recently the focus was on …
As it is when you got a new toy…. you want to play with it. Early in the 1990’s I saved money to buy biofeedback hardware and software, One of my first try-outs was with …
During the Olympic games I was asked to contribute a coaching tool for an elite coach’s exhibition and write an article about my choice. Obviously I choose my old stopwatch. Did I have more tools …