This conversation is with Sam McKenzie, Coaching Content and Learning Lead at the AFL. 

Prior to this, Sam was the Junior Coach Development Manager at Auckland Rugby. 

In 2019, Sam completed his Master's degree at AUT University focusing on 1st XV rugby players' perceptions of their coaching environment.

In this conversation, Sam provides his well-informed thoughts on the recent media attention (https://bit.ly/3d0Dkde) surrounding the 'commercialisation' of schoolboy rugby in New Zealand. 

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EP 87: Samuel McKenzie - The 1st XV Rugby Experience in New Zealand

Science and stories from the brightest minds across many disciplines to help youth athletes unlock personal performance &amp; develop their sporting potential.

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On the Show today I'm speaking with the man behind the Crusaders Rugby Academy, Aaron Webb. The programme operates in line with the New Zealand Rugby Union's six pillars of development - technical, tactical, physical, nutrition, mental skills and holistic life skills. Aaron shares how he goes about his work with a clear focus on developing young men with the skills to reach their goals in professional rugby and grow into excellent community citizens. 

This is a conversation about the artistry of people development. 
 
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Aaron Webb on the Artistry of People Development

Brian Shelley is Head of Football at Saint Kentigern College in Auckland where he coaches at the premier level and oversees the development pathways. He earned his UEFA A License with the English FA. 
 
Prior to his coaching career, Brain played professional football in the UK where he competed for clubs in both the UEFA Cup and Champions League.  

In this conversation we discuss school versus club football, Brian's coaching approach and the experiences that have led to it, how he thinks about building resilience, growing the game in New Zealand, and much more.   

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Brian Shelley on School versus Club Football, Building Resilience, Player Empowerment, & much 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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The Curious Mind #09 - Street Football, Skill Variability, Session Planning, Developing a Culture of Learning, & 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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Tim Brazier on Developing Supportive Relationships, Dealing with Expectation, the Problem with Fun, Micro-Dosing Reflection, and Much More

This is a rebroadcast of episode 162 of Athletes Authority ON AIR podcast, featuring Dr Craig Harrison. 

"Craig gives us a breakdown of his coaching background, why he chose to work in the youth space over other areas of physical development, how his diverse background set him up for success, how he implements mental skills or the "unseen" side of training into his programming, how environment and parenting plays a massive role in the success of an athlete plus a whole lot more." 

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EP 87: Samuel McKenzie - The 1st XV Rugby Experience in New Zealand

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