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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Nick Davey, Director of Hockey at Sedbergh School and England Hockey performance centre head coach, Beckie Middleton former England and Great Britain hockey international, Guildford Men's 1st team head coach and coach educator and Helen Weston, Lymm Hockey Club head coach, England Hockey performance pathway coach and teaching assistant specialising in Maths, English and PE.

 The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

 This week’s content

• A Boy in the Water – Tom Gregory
• The Long Win – Cath Bishop
• Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind – Caroline Williams

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Frank Dick – What is Winning?
• Fear Less: How to Win Your Way in Work and Life - Pippa Grange
• Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the secrets of the fastest people on earth – Adharanand Finn

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Nic Evans, Course lead for Physical Education and Youth Development at St Mary's University, Level 4 Rugby Coach and Joe Harwood, Bristol Bears Community Foundation Community Coach, Level 3 Coach.

The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

This week’s content

• Caring teaching and the complexity of building good relationships as pedagogies for social justice in health and physical education – Moen & Gerdin, (2019)
• Big Shot - Disney

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• 10 Bell Hooks books that are a must read – Bell Hooks
• Care research by Nel Noddings – Nel Noddings
• Care research by Colum Cronin – Colum Cronin
• Eightypercentmental Olympic Review – Pete Olusoga and Hugh Gilmore 
• Dave Collins Deep Dives with Simon Nainby – Rugby Coach Weekly

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guest: Jess Bunyard, Editor Women's Rugby Coaching magazine, Head of women's and girls rugby and assistant academy coach at Huddersfield RUFC.  

The team pick discuss their experiences of pre-season so far, how the return from Covid has been managed and it's impact on planning and delivery. 

Women's Rugby Coaching – Rugby Coach Weekly

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

How To Sustain Success ft Adam Peaty - From Paper to Podium 

How Humble Leadership Really Works – Harvard Business Review

Doing hybrid management work in elite sport: the case of a head coach in top-level rugby union – Hall et al, (2020)

Effective Sports Coaching: A Systematic Integrative Review – Mills and Clements (2021)

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.

This week's guest:

Dan Cox, Lecturer at SGS Filton, Phd Student at Edinburgh University, Old Redcliffians RFC Head Coach, Bristol Bears Pathway Coach and Somerset RFU Senior Men's Head Coach.

Dan and Phil discuss their experiences of pre-season so far, how the return from Covid has been managed and it's impact on planning and delivery.

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

• Can You Be Great Without Being Obsessed?
• How have Dual Career Athletes Coped During the Covid-19 Pandemic?The 18 best motivational podcasts that could change your life
• The emergence and perpetuation of a destructive culture in an elite sport in the United Kingdom
• You Can’t Know What You Need Until You Know What You’ve Got – Jack Dodd

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Dave Collins is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and director at Grey Matters Performance Ltd. As an academic, Dave has over 350 peer review publications and 70 books/chapters. As a practitioner, he has worked with over 80 World or Olympic medallists plus professional teams and performers. He has coached to national level in three sports, is a 5th Dan Karate, Director of the Rugby Coaches Association, Fellow of the Society of Martial Arts and BASES, Associate Fellow of the BPS and an ex Royal Marine.

https://www.greymattersuk.com/
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In this Deep Dive we discuss all things mentoring:

• What does mentoring mean to Dave?
• The importance of Conditional Knowledge - "It Depends"
• What happens when there is a mismatch between mentor/mentee expectations of how the relationship should work
• Letting go as a mentor and aiming to make yourself redundant
• The difference between Competencies and Competence - developing expertise through mixed mode mentoring
• Dave's research on professional judgement and decision making and its use as a framework for coaches
• Naturalistic and Classical Decision Making - high stakes, fast decisions and slow deliberate thinking
• Using Classical Decision Making to aid Naturalistic Decision Making under pressure
• The big five questions coaches can use to reflect on their decision making process. What did you do? Why with what goals? What alternatives did you consider? What would have changed in the context to make you choose an alternative? How will you know and when that you've made the right decision?
• The Applied Cognitive Task Analysis framework as a tool of reflective practice
• Assessing the effectiveness of a mentor/mentee relationship - process vs outcomes
• Two way challenge in the mentor/mentee relationship - the Zone of Uncomfortable Debate

Research mentioned:
Making Mentoring Work: The Need for Rewiring Epistemology - https://bit.ly/MakingMentoringWork

The importance of an effective mentor in developing Coach expertise https://bit.ly/ReflectionInMentoring

Professional Judgment and Decision Making: The Role of Intention for Impact - https://bit.ly/PJDMCollinsMartindale

Muscular collision chess: A qualitative exploration of the role and development of cognition, understanding, and knowledge in elite level decision making - https://bit.ly/MuscularCollisionChess

Developing coaches’ professional judgement and decision making: Using the ‘Big 5’ - https://bit.ly/PJDMBig5

Professional Judgement & Decision Making in Sport: To Jump or not to Jump - https://bit.ly/PJDMJumpOrNot

Cognition at the Crime Scene: Identifying Cognitive Demands on Professional Judgement & Decision Making in Expertise of Crime Scene Examiners - https://bit.ly/AppliedCognitiveTaskAnalysis

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Host Phil Llewellyn in a departure from the Rodeo, reflects on what he's learned from coaching during a week on Sedbergh Courses.

This week's guests:

Jason Duffy, Sedbergh Courses Manager and Adam Gallagher, Rugby Coach at Trent College and Sedbergh Courses.

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests:

Ian Ridge, Community Football Coach and Sports Coaching Masters Student at Worcester University and Tom Reid, Head Coach Stourbridge Ladies Football Club and Sports Coaching Masters Student at Worcester University.

The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

This week's content

• Threshold Concepts in Physical Education – Fiona Chambers 
• Determinants of Cycling Performance: a Review of the Dimensions and Features Regulating Performance in Elite Cycling Competitions - Kathryn Phillips and William Hopkins

 SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Threshold Concepts in Practise – Ray Land
• On Point – Disney Plus
• When Eagles Dare  - Amazon Prime

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Dan Cottrell speaks to awarding winning coaches Dan Lycett and Ross Williams about their approach to coaching. Dan is head of PE and Sport and Ross is head of Athletic Development at St David's College, in North Wales.

They've won the Independent Schools Association award for outstanding sport (small school) and been nominated for the Independent Schools Association award for innovation, recognising their provision during lockdown.

We chat about how they have introduced a more ecological approach to their coaching, allowing their players to find meaning and have a more self-determined approach.

In a wide-ranging discussion, here are some of the key topics we covered:

• How do you make fantastic athletes, even with a very diverse group of players
• What is meant by finding meaning and why it is so important
• How do you frontload training
• What is a rich environment and how does this lead to self-determination
• What are the challenges of setting up this type of curriculum
• How long does it take to develop this sort of approach
• Using "bingo" to challenge players helping players to reflect 
• Fitting gamification and scaffolding into a session
• What does an ecological approach mean 

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Dan speaks to RFU national panel referee Adam Wookey about age grade tackle height changes, ball carrier height laws plus the new 50:22 and drop outs instead of 5m scrums being trialled at international rugby.

They discuss:

• How to referee the tackle height
• What does the ball carrier height into contact mean
• What do both look like 
• Why a community referee has one shot, so best ways to deal with that
• How to referee this area sympathetically but firmly
• What are the new laws around the 50:22 kick and how referee that
• What are the new laws around the ball being held up over the line
• How both might allow the game to work more effectively

Links to the Laws
From The Rugby Paper on 50:22 and 5m scrums
From the RFU on tackle height and the ball carrier dip experiment

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Dan speaks to Bristol Bears defence coach, Omar Mouneimne.

Omar has coached with the Springbok 7s, the Sharks and Stomers Super Rugby teams, the Italian national team, Stade Francais, Edinburgh, Worcester Warriors as well as plenty of consultancy work.

He set up his coaching website, Whistle-2-Whistle during lockdown, which provides lots of defence coaching resources, plus support and growth leadership for coaches.

In the podcast Omar and Dan cover these topics:

• What do you look for when you first arrive at a new club
• How do change weak tacklers into great tacklers
• How do you energise players to become better defenders
• What are the key techniques good defenders need
• Why do you NOT coach low tackles for young players when the start their tackle journey
• What system do you use at the ruck
• How do you change players into skilful defenders who make better decisions
• Why shouldn't use tackle tubes and ruck shields
• How do you balance contact time in training with keeping fresh for games

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