Karl Schwarzenbrunner

• Coaching coaches
  • Giving feedback
  • Giving a few skills to coaches… Win people over, 
  • Athlete centered coaching
  • Don’t throw everything at the player all at once!!!
  • Identifying the main problem. Not the obvious things
• Athlete centered coaching
  • 24k players in Germany. Compared to 1.8m soccer players
  • Can’t select much. Required to develop
  • Talent = playing + having fun. Might be best official or coach.
  • Sport helps create good citizens
• Creating development programs
  • 2016 Germany got a new president and did a revamp. Created PowerPlayer26
  • Allocation of money based on 5 star system. Building the infrastructure of the 60 clubs in the program. 110 clubs total in Germany.
  • Planet learning + 4 levels of coaching. 11 days to complete level 1
• Using data and science to elevate german hockey
  • Sports psychology projects. Looking at fears and how they regenerate.
  • National body being the neutral party to transfer knowledge to everyone
  • Using sense arena to help processing speeds
  • 3 main reason why coaches say they lost… (1) Not efficient, (2) bad mental space, (3) weren’t ready physically