Sports Philosophy Series Episode 7

Another Sports Philosophy series conversation coming at you today and with that comes another awesome guest for our audience. Dr. Cesar Torres is a professor of Philosophy of Sport at Brockport University. He also happens to be the mentor of our last guest-Dr. Adam Pflegor. If you listened to my conversation with Adam you will definitely hear the similarities and crossover between the two perspectives. But today Dr. Torres and I focus mostly on his opinion of the purpose of sport which he puts so simply and perfectly. We drive that purpose through the rest of our conversation on what effects the belief in that purpose have on how you play the sport to how you coach a sport; how to measure success, things players and coaches take for granted, the important difference between motivations to play sport and the purpose of sport, and so much more. I think today’s conversation with Dr. Torres is one of the most helpful for coaches specifically not just in this series but out of all my conversations on the show. If you buy in to this and explore some of these ideas it becomes pretty difficult to have a shallow or unfinished coaching philosophy. But I’ll get out of the way here and let you listen for yourself. Please enjoy on another episode of The Captains Coach Podcast.