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This week on the show, I sat down with my good friend, Dave Wright. 

Dave is head of coaching at Birkenhead United FC in Auckland, New Zealand and Co-founder of Player Development Project, a platform offering a massive collection of coach education resources and online courses. 

Dave and I often catch up to talk coaching, kids and athlete development, so we thought why not record our conversation and share it with you. 

Today, we discuss what it's like being a dad while working in youth sport, the importance of joy, individualisation within group environments, coach development, and much more. If you like this format, please let us know and we'll keep doing it!

Kia ora!

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The Curious Mind #03 - Reimagining the Job of a Coach

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On the Show today I'm speaking with  Head of Performance Pathways Science at the National Youth Sports Institute in Singapore, Dr Matthew Wylde. Matthew has been within the Singapore high performance system for over 15 years, having held roles with the Singapore Sport Institute, Singapore Sports School and now with the National Youth Sports Institute. He holds a PhD from Bournemouth University, which explored the use of wearable technologies to reduce injury rates within a youth athlete population, and a MSc in Performance Analysis from Cardiff Metropolitan University.

In this episode, Matthew shares a fantastic new initiative at the Singapore Sports School. If you're after an example that exemplifies alignment between what we know from the science and what we do in practice, you're going to love this. 

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Dr Matthew Wylde on Aligning Science to Practice and an Exciting New Initiative at the Singapore Sports School

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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The Curious Mind #03 - Reimagining the Job of a Coach

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