Implementing change

Case studies

7 Min

Empowering Rangatahi Through Active Southland’s Innovative Leadership Programme

Active Southland’s commitment to fostering youth development is shown through its innovative Rangatahi Leadership Group. This programme, designed to address the needs of Māori, Pasifika and disabled youth facing barriers...

Sport Leaders & Administrators

6 Min

Meeting the Needs of Youth

Young people value sport. So why do participation rates consistently drop at similar ages? In this article, Sport New Zealand presents some research that adults need to take note of....

Sport Leaders & Administrators

2 Min

Promoting Balance is Better Messages

Are you a sport administrator working in a national or regional sport organisation, a school or club and want to understand how you can promote Balance is Better? This article shows...

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

9 Min

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

10 Min

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

5 Min

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...

Balance is Better in Action

13 Min

Divisions, even teams and trials: Stratifying structures at Harbour Basketball

How do you decide who plays with (and against) who? In youth sport, this is a core question which underpins many of the quintessential youth sport structures – trials, selections,...

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Balance is Better in Action

6 Min

Winning with a climate of development: Reflections on growth and success at Harbour Basketball

“Vince has left quite the legacy”, says long time Harbour Basketball CEO, John Hunt.  Today, as a result of the youth development model Vince set up at Harbour Basketball “attrition...