Value of sport
The Unique Wellbeing Benefits of Organised Sport
A recently published New Zealand study has found that participation in organised sport provides wellbeing benefits to young people, above and beyond...
Sport Leaders & Administrators
Coaches
What does quality look like for young people?
How do you know what quality looks like when it comes to sport? In this article, we unpack what quality means in...
Balance is Better in Action
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”....
Balance is Better in Action
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...
Balance is Better in Action
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...
Balance is Better in Action
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...