Rivers of Thinking

Rivers of Thinking

A random mix of rambles from the world of talent and coaching, personal thoughts on learning and the future of youth sport. The content is deliberately aimed at poking, prompting and provoking a few thoughts on what and how you do your stuff! It is here to help you examine some of your own practices and consider how you can improve, through reflection and self-evaluation, as well as being a tool for my own reflective process.

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england rooney
children coaching football grassroots high performance 

Questions for coaches inspired by England v Slovakia

September 7, 2016September 10, 2016 Nick L 6 Comments

England v Slovakia 04.09.16 The after-match of the England game provided some interesting comments from the Manager, Sam Allardyce, about

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coaching chess tactics
children coaching grassroots 

Do we need a coaching re-think?

June 26, 2016June 26, 2016 Nick Levett 15 Comments

Coaching? We make a lot of assumptions in coaching and this blog post is going to do exactly that! I

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golf
children coaching golf sport 

Guest blog by Neil Plimmer: learning thru the game…

June 12, 2016June 26, 2016 Nick L 0 Comment

One of my favourite Apple adverts starts with “here’s to the crazy ones…” and it can be found Here. Please watch

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connection
children coaching grassroots sport 

Guest blog by Aaron Danks: connection trumps content…

May 22, 2016 Nick L 0 Comment

Social media is a funny thing; you build a picture of someone based upon the kind of things they talk

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cricket
children coaching grassroots sport 

Guest blog by David Court: throwing away the plan…

May 8, 2016May 8, 2016 Nick L 1 Comment

For too long in the world of football many thought we knew it all; ‘we know football, what can we learn

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foundation
children coaching grassroots 

5-11’s ARE the foundation phase…

May 4, 2016May 8, 2016 Nick L 10 Comments

The under-appreciated heroes I’ve been at St. George’s Park, our national football centre, for the last couple of days and whilst

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hockey
children coaching creativity grassroots sport 

Guest blog by Stuart Armstrong: kids leading the way…

April 29, 2016April 29, 2016 Nick L 1 Comment

Stuart is a talented guy. He currently works in rugby for a living, driving forward change, but equally at home

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reflection mistakes lesson
children coaching football grassroots high performance learning 

Coaching mistakes I’ve made: some honest reflections…

April 23, 2016April 23, 2016 Nick L 10 Comments reflection

Honesty in reflection The beauty of holding a mirror, consistently, to the work you do enables you to move forwards

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rugby
children coaching grassroots sport 

Guest blog by Russell Earnshaw: a lifetime of friends…

April 20, 2016 Nick L 3 Comments

You meet some people and you just know ‘there is something about them that I quite like’ and Russell was

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cricket psychology
children coaching grassroots psychology sport 

Guest blog by Rebecca Symes: sport psychology in action…

April 14, 2016November 1, 2019 Nick L 3 Comments

As part of this series of guest blogs I wanted to engage people beyond just coaches, because even specialist knowledge

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Some of my favourite posts…

  • Understanding creative players
  • Measuring the stuff that matters
  • Switching focus from teaching to learning
  • A guest blog on introducing sport psych to kids
  • Why I'm pleased my son is born in May
 

Recent Posts

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  • Two words to change your coaching relationships
  • The dilemma of playing formats in Academy football…
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  • The stuff men can’t talk about.

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