http:\/\/www.hmmrmedia.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nMartin\u2019s is\nbook is also a worthwhile read: \u201cconversations with a dozen master coaches\u201d as\nthe subtitle is. Master coaches like Anatoli Bondartchuk, Dan Pfaff, Gary\nWinckler, Vern Gambetta and John Kiely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reading or\nlistening to accomplished coaches, like these, is still a very good way to\ncreate food for thought. You don\u2019t have to copy what they say or did, you don\u2019t\nnecessarily have to agree with what they did or do (better make sure your\ncriticism is justified or based on facts , knowledge or experiences) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an\nearlier post I wrote about if and how coaches still learn. Many young coaches\nthink they can learn from YouTube or the Internet, reading articles (from a\nlimited amount of journals). For many, there is hardly time to read books\nanymore, or better, they don\u2019t take the time. Yes, course and presentations can\nbe good sources of information as well. But in my opinion having a good mentor\nis by far the best way to become a better coach. For several reasons: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. a good\nmentor has read all the books and articles and probably more than you ever will\nand he\/she can make a deliberate pre-selection what to read and what not. That\nsaves lots of valuable time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. a good mentor has experience, often decades long,\nwhich you cannot read in an article or book. He\/she experienced in real life\nideas and tools that worked and the ones that did not, keeping in mind the\ncontextual and situational factors. What worked for his\/her athletes might not\nnecessarily work for your athletes, but a good mentor knows that and will tell\nyou this. Experience might be the most valuable asset of a good mentor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. a good\nmentor will ask you challenging questions or otherwise confront you with\nchallenges, so you are forced to think and often to think out of your own\nsecure and cozy box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. a good\nmentor will act as a feedback system or a mirror, telling you how you did,\nwhere you went into the wrong directionand how you might be able to do even\nbetter <\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. a good\nmentor should be an inspiration, who practices what he\/she preaches, like a\ntorchlight in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. a good\nmentor should be able to leave room for error and stimulate you to develop your\nown ideas and concepts and challenge you to become a better coach than he\/she\nhimself\/herself is and make himself\/herself redundant in the end. The student\nwill become the teacher and the teacher will again become a student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. a good\nmentor therefore should not produce \u201cclones\u201d or \u201clapdogs\u201d who blindly copy and\nuncritically follow everything he\/she says or does. Everybody is different and\ncircumstances change over time. What was useful ten years ago might be useless\nin ten years from now. New technologies and new information might become\ngame-changers. But a good mentor also keeps up with the latest developments in\nhis\/her field and hopefully outside that field as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other\nwords: try to get a mentor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And of course: I almost forgot…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our yearly \u201cHelping The Best To Get Better\u201d- Seminar will take place on Saturday, November 23, 2019, in Hilversum, in the Netherlands again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s going\nto be a great seminar, take the look at the presenters and the topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Hakan Andersson<\/strong>: Technique and Physique for Speed, Three Decades of Coaching Experience<\/em>. Hakan, a long term colleague and friend, is one of the most innovative sprint coaches in the world and has lots of new ideas to share with you. He has been coaching most of the Swedish sprinters and recordholders. He is also working in other sports: swimming, boxing, ice hockey, soccer, and speed skating. Currently he is employed by the High Performance Center in Vaxjo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n2. Jerome Simian<\/strong>, Fundamental physical preparation for the athlete : a systemic approach<\/em>. Jerome is a Physical Preparation Specialist from Lyon, France,, who has coached athletes to medals internationally in seven different sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn track\nand field, he supported Kevin Mayer to a world record in the decathlon, as well\nas others who won medals at the Olympics, Paralympics, and World Championships\nin the throws, sprints and jumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also trained\nsuccessful athletes for sports as diverse as rugby, figure skating, skeleton,\ntennis, judo, golf, basketball, soccer and bobsled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Bill Laich<\/strong>: Mental Aspects of the Preparation for Major Competitions<\/em>. Scientific view.\u00a0 An important topic, but\u00a0 seldom talked about and this presentation is far beyond the usual scope. Bill is a well-known face at our seminars who hardly need another introduction, world-class teacher and educator, an accomplished athlete himself, and top of the bill in sport sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n4. Henk Kraaijenhof<\/strong>: Mental Aspects of the Preparation for Major Competitions<\/em>. Experiences, examples and practical implications.<\/p>\n\n\n\nInterested? The seminar<\/strong> is by invitation only, so send a mail to info@vortx.nl<\/em><\/strong> for an invitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once and awhile I have to clean my desk from the books that I received, bought and read. Thanks to digital technology my desk should be cleaner, but it\u2019s not. Most people I meet, mainly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}