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March 28, 2024 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #159

The Curious Mind #09 - Street Football, Skill Variability, Session Planning, Developing a Culture of Learning, & more

Head of coaching at Birkenhead United FC in Auckland, New Zealand and Co-founder of Player Development Project, Dave Wright (@davewright07), rejoins me for another episode of The Curious Mind.

We discuss our experiences in youth sport over the past couple of months, including using street football as a development tool and why Dave loves it as a format, accounting for skill variability in our athletes, planning for all-round development, designing cultures of learning, and much more.

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March 19, 2024 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #158

Tim Brazier on Developing Supportive Relationships, Dealing with Expectation, the Problem with Fun, Micro-Dosing Reflection, and Much More

Tim Brazier (@coach_brazier) has been coaching in high performance sport for over 15 years. After earning a Master’s degree from the University of Otago, Tim took up a lecturing role at Otago Polytechnic for two years. He went on to coach at Triathlon New Zealand for 7 years and attended two Olympic Games. Tim now coaches at Fitter, a New Zealand based triathlon coaching business offering highly personalised, professional coaching to a wide range of athletes. He also works for Snow Sports New Zealand as a physiologist.

In this conversation we discuss the power of the supportive relationships, developing resilience, creating filters to makes sense of information, micro-dosing of reflection, dealing with increasing expectation in sport, how Tim thinks about balance, the problem with fun, and much more.

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December 6, 2023 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #156

Jordi Taylor on Athlete Assessment, Individualising Programming, The Foundations of Athleticism, Managing Injuries, and More

Jordi Taylor (@coach_jorditaylor) is a Senior Strength and Conditioning Coach at Athletes Authority, a strength and conditioning gym for athletes in Sydney and Melbourne, in Australia. Jordi also heads up Media & Partnerships at Athlete Authority and hosts their ON AIR Podcast.

In this conversation, Jordi takes us inside Athletes Authority’s Emerging Athlete Programme, a service specifically designed for young athletes. I really enjoyed hearing from Jordi and his no filter approach to sharing what they do and how they do it. There’s plenty of gold in this one so stay tuned to hear from one of the best.

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October 9, 2023 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #155

The Curious Mind #08 - Creating Team Culture, Navigating Tournament Play, Helping Coaches Be Their Best Selves, & more

Head of coaching at Birkenhead United FC in Auckland, New Zealand and Co-founder of Player Development Project, Dave Wright (@davewright07), rejoins me for another episode of The Curious Mind.

We discuss our experiences in youth sport over the past couple of months, including how Dave goes about creating team culture, the pros and cons of tournament play, the essential ingredients in coach development, and much more.

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September 29, 2023 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #154

Dr Sarah Chantler on Teaching Food Skills to Young Athletes

Dr Sarah Chantler is a registered dietician and performance nutritionist. Originally from South Africa, Sarah is now based at Leeds Beckett University in the UK where she is a senior lecturer and applied practitioner. Sarah’s fascinating work highlights why we should prioritise teaching food skills over food knowledge to the adolescent athlete. We dig into this idea during the episode and Sarah gives some great examples to use with your athletes.

We also discuss the role of the coach in nutrition, how age should impact what we focus on and the value of snacking as a starting point for younger kids, how the sporting system can influence poor nutrition, appetite and the challenges that come with higher training loads, the power of role modelling in nutrition, social media, and why we should all be having more conversations about food.

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September 8, 2023 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #153

Royston Dsouza on the Muck of Mumbai, Movement Skill, and Keeping the Joy in Sport

“Grass was a luxury, if you saw grass, you’d go and roll in it.”

My conversation today is with Royston Dsouza. Hailing from India, where he spend much of his childhood playing football on the streets of Mumbai, Royston is now based in Auckland, Aotearoa, where he works as a movement skill coach and as a football coach. Royston played top level club football in India for five years before quitting and making the move to New Zealand to study.

In this conversation, I chat with Royston about his joyful childhood, including his wide range of movement experiences and playing sport based on the season. Roy describes the difference between football in New Zealand compare to India and what led to his decision to quit the game he loved. We also chat about Roy’s approach to developing movement skill and how he aims to keep kids in sport.

You can check out Roy and his awesome work @Roystondsouza on instagram.

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August 22, 2023 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #152

Austin Einhorn and Dr Jeff Moreno on the Macronutrients of Movement

This conversation is with Austin Einhorn and Dr Jeff Moreno, recorded live in Santa Cruz, California.

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July 28, 2023 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #151

Gareth Turnbull on the Power of Football for Developing Skills for Life

On the show this week, I’m speaking with Pathways Manager and A-League Women’s Assistant Coach at Melbourne Victory Football Club, Gareth Turnbull.

Gareth has been full time in football since 2008, beginning his career as a Football Development Manager for Coastal Spirit Football Club in Christchurch, and moving on to New Zealand Football where he served as the High Performance Athlete Development Manager, Head Coach of the National U17 and U20 Woman’s programmes, and the Football Ferns Assistant Coach.

I love Gareth’s perspective not only on football development, but on life. And in this conversation, we dig into all of it. If you see sport as a way to develop joyful, intrinsically driven, all-round young people who just so happen to also be great at sport, you’re going to love this conversation.

Big thanks to Garth for taking some time out on his holiday back home in New Zealand to sit down with me for a yarn.

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July 10, 2023 /0 Comments/by drcraigharrison

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EP #150

Jay Carter on Talent, Skilled Golfers, and Helping Young Athletes Lead Themselves

It’s an absolute pleasure to bring Golf New Zealand’s National Coach, Jay Carter, on the show. Jay and I met not long ago when he reached out to ask me on his fantastic podcast, Talking Performance. We had a great conversation and barely scratched the surface on some topics I wanted to talk more about.

So, here we are. While Jay and I spend our days in different sports and with athletes at different stages of development, we share a lot in common. Most significantly, the common goal to help young athletes lead themselves.

Jay and I cover a lot in this conversation, including solving problems over learning techniques, identifying potential rather than performance, creating talent systems, play versus practice, what happened when Jay literally froze on the tee back in his playing days, thinking out loud to build awareness, slowing down to speed up, and much more.

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