Coaches
Talking Performance with Jay Carter
Jay Carter is Golf NZ’s National Coach. Recently, Jay, alongside celebrated sport psychologist and friend David Galbraith, started the Talking Performance community...
Coaches
Building Rapport and Developing Great Coach-Athlete Relationships
Building rapport and developing relationships is arguably the most important part of coaching. After all, coaching is a human activity, revolving around...
Balance is Better in Action
Growing Coaches
Coach education is crucial to ensuring better environments for young people in sport. In this article, we examine the Growing Coaches programme...
Balance is Better in Action
Q&A with Balance is Better Champion, Jack Wang
Tell us a bit about you and where you grew up. I’m currently a badminton player in the Badminton New Zealand Development...
Balance is Better in Action
“Understand that it’s their journey”: Willy Benson’s coaching philosophy
Balance is Better Champion Willy Benson is a former Olympic swimmer and now head coach at the Heretaunga Sundevils Swimming Club in...
Coaches
How many times should I tell you?
This article is shared by Player Development Project Communication is a crucial element of effective coaching. In this article, Professor Stephen Rollnick challenges traditional...