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People first: A new approach to coach development at Canterbury Cricket

Coaches have one of the biggest influences on a young person’s experience with sport. An innovative initiative from Canterbury Cricket is ensuring coaches are equipped and supported to bring the...

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Balancing hauora and wellbeing in rugby with Roos and Vettise

This article has been republished with permission from New Zealand Rugby Mental Health Awareness Week (September 18-24) is an initiative run annually in New Zealand by the Mental Health Foundation, with...

Balance is Better in Action

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How Capital Football’s new festival puts the participant first

With the evidence highlighting a clear drop-off for participation in youth football, Capital Football knew it needed to act to keep young people playing the beautiful game. Data analysed by...

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All Black Will Jordan on keeping more young people in sport

This article has been republished with permission from New Zealand Rugby Coaches and parents are influential in keeping youth in sport as All Black Will Jordan reflects on his earlier...

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How being fearless and determined shaped Kirsty Yallop into a World Cup star

Take one look at Kirsty Yallop’s CV and it’s easy to see the former Football Fern has enjoyed an illustrious sporting career on the world stage. Yallop played for the...

Balance is Better in Action

9 Min

Competitive engineering: Key changes by Harbour Basketball to make competition closer, healthier and more competitive

As Vince Minjares of Harbour Basketball explains competitive engineering is about “designing youth sport structures and competitions so that they facilitate development”. An academic definition A quick google turns up...

Balance is Better in Action

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How Harbour Basketball determine success in their youth basketball programme

In youth sport, an overly narrow definition of success that is centered around winning can lead to harmful and contrary behaviours and environments that ultimately negatively impact young athletes. This...

Balance is Better in Action

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How Harbour Basketball embedded a style of play to support better playing and coaching outcomes

Total football, tika-taka, rush defense, motion offense, counterpuncher. What do all of these terms have in common? They are styles of play across an array of sports. Many reading this...

Balance is Better in Action

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Working with parents and community: Insights from Harbour Basketball

When you’re thinking about parents in youth sports, you need to realise, you’re working with families, not just individual players. Sometimes it’s a sibling, and for many families, they’ve been...