Listeners of the podcast will have heard us bang on about the important of exposing children to a wide variety of sports at a young age.

We believe there are 3 things that can really help the overall athletic development of a child:

We discuss what all this means and the proven benefits.

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Did you know that Germany have just completely revamped their approach to grassroots football?  

They have introduced a lot of new things including adopting a game called Funino.  

Funino is a game first developed by legendary coach, Horst Wein.  

The style of game helps to develop junior footballers but also ensures a lot of enjoyment.  

It is something, along with Horst Wein's other teachings, that we have implemented at our sessions.  

There is a change coming and we will see a return to street football style games with a focus on development over winning.  

Listen to find out more about this exciting development in youth football and how it might impact your child.

We never like to see our children quit.

Resilience and character can be built by pushing through hard-times, but there comes a point where quitting might actually be the best option.

We discuss all this in this episode of Shouting From The Sidelines plus:

Enjoy and let us know your thoughts.

What do sports superstars like Roger Federer, Kobe Bryant, Zlatan Ibrahimovic & Tom Brady all have in common?

You'd be right if you said they are all leaders in their chosen sports but...

Did you know they all credit playing a variety of sports as a child as a reason for their high level of ability in their chosen sport?

This is something we have been researching and looking into for a number of years and the info suggests that kids who are exposed to a variety of sports tend to do better both in sport generally and in their chosen sport.

Why? How? And what can you do to help your child? 

We discuss all of this in this episode.

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As always, thanks for listening.

In this episode we discuss our recent experience of taking a Foot-Tech team to a tournament.

We saw a few things which we feel need to be highlighted in order to give parents a a good idea on how to pick the best team for their child.

We discuss:

...and loads more.

Have a listen and let us know your thoughts.

Life is generally quite stressful.  

A parents life can be even more stressful!  

Now we are seeing that kids are also becoming increasingly stressed-out with with everything from school to sports.  

We sat down with Sophia Taylor from Apollo Nutrition who is an expert in all things mental-health, nutrition and stress management.  

She shares with us some great tips on how we can all manage stress to make our lives that little bit easier and also help our children along the way.

We've been doing our bit to help girls football ever since we started.

But we now know we can do more and this has led to our decision to start our first-ever girls only groups at our weekly sessions.

In the episode we discuss:

Why now?

Why we haven't done it before?

When it will start

Enjoy!

Resilience is one of the most important things for our children.

It will help them in and out of sport and there are ways we as parents can help.

In this episode we discuss:

This was a request by one of our members.

She thought it would be good to know how and why we started Foot-Tech.

Nick and I sat down to talk all about it including what still drives us and what the future holds.

Enjoy!

Becoming a Black Belt means more than just fancy kicks and punches.

It's about a journey of building confidence, perseverance, resilience and character.

It doesn't just apply to martial arts, either.

Creating this mentality in our children will help them now and in the future. But how do we do it?

We chat to Ricky Lam, a martial arts expert and owner of Premier Martial Arts, who has trained 100's of black belts and met 1000's of parents and children along the way.

He tells us what separates the black belt children and parents from those who don't make it plus what parents can do to help their children build the habits needed to have a growth mindset.