Balance is Better
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Balance is Better in Action

5 Min

Sports stand together to make the 2021 winter season special

After a 2020 winter season heavily disrupted by COVID-19, Sport NZ and five of the country’s largest participation sports are calling on coaches, parents and others at grassroots level to...

Parents

6 Min

Parenting the next Sophie Pascoe or Liam Malone

Blasting onto the world stage at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Liam Malone took New Zealand sport by storm.  A relative unknown, he excelled at the highest level and became a...

Balance is Better in Action

5 Min

Playing other sports made me a better cricketer and person – White Fern Captain, Sophie Devine

White Ferns cricket captain Sophie Devine has never understood early specialisation in sport. It’s one of the reasons why the Wellingtonian is a Balance is Better Champion, to spread the...

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Coaches

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Back to the Future: Steve Hansen on Vulnerability

Steve Hansen shares his thoughts on how and why coaches should show vulnerability.  **This is video is part of a six-part video series, featuring Steve Hansen talking about leadership throughout his...

Sport Leaders & Administrators

11 Min

Breaking the silence on syndrome hurting female athletes

This story was originally published in LockerRoom at Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. It’s the syndrome few people have heard of – or dared talk about – but RED-S is affecting...

Coaches

2 Min

Why Talent is Irrelevant

This article is shared by Player Development Project Talent: Nature vs. nurture, is it relevant? Top PDP contributor and coaching innovator, Todd Beane discusses the preconceptions around talent and the...

Balance is Better in Action

7 Min

The constant loss that wiped out Kayla Imrie

This story was originally published in LockerRoom at Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. Olympic paddler Kayla Imrie has struggled for a decade with the debilitating condition menorrhagia and now wants to help...

Coaches

6 Min

Women aren’t little men: developing female athletes

This story was originally published in LockerRoom at Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. In the first of a series on the development of female athletes in New Zealand, Ashley...

Value of sport

4 Min

Balance is Better at the heart of wellbeing

When it comes to community sport, 2020 certainly had its ups and downs, from a complete halt to scaling alert levels.  Adversity though has taught us, if nothing else, that wellbeing...