Coaches The Risks of Early Specialisation in Youth Sports In this article, we examine the ever-growing evidence of increasing injury to children in youth sport. Are high-performance behaviors creeping in too... Sport NZ 6 Min Read
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... Hamish Rogers 4 Min Read
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... Sport NZ 3 Min Read
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”.... Hamish Rogers 9 Min Read
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... Hamish Rogers 9 Min Read
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... Hamish Rogers 10 Min Read
