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Coach Watching
I am on my way to England to meet a group of coaches with whom I have been in contact since 2013. It is my tenth visit to watch them coach and to talk about their life in coaching. We meet up twice a...
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Moving towards interdisciplinary service teams in sport
Jamie Youngson has submitted his Master of Sports Science (Research) thesis for examination at the University of Canberra. The title of the thesis is Moving from Multidisciplinary to Interdisciplinary...
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A golden ticket …
I am delighted that I have received this invitation. It is a Willy Wonka type ticket to a special day at Guildford later this week. I am going to attend the launch with my wife, Sue. She was the...
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Share, Exchange, (Re)Create
One of my colleagues at the University of Canberra, Peter Copeman, has introduced me to the concept of Ganma from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land. Ganma: describes a situation in which a river of...
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Microlearning opportunities with autoresponders
Earlier this year, I took part in an online Open Badge Boot Camp. It presented a completely different approach to other open learning opportunities I had pursued. I was hooked by the process used in...
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ChangeMakers: Celia, Anita and Friends
The Anita White Foundation, the University of Chichester and English Lacrosse hosted a gathering at the 2017 World Cup to celebrate the life and work of Celia Brackenridge. Mark Coups (English...
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Level 4 at Burleigh
I have an opportunity to spend some time with the RFU Level 4 coaching group this afternoon. Al Smith is presenting this morning. We are both discussing skill acquisition and decision making. It is...
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Mechanisms and Machineries
Mark Upton has posted his eighth fragment in his compelling discussion of sport systems. I am fascinated by Mark’s insights. His latest post coincides with the end of my visit to England (and Ireland)...
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Jamie Coles Guest Post 1: What Makes the Perfect Sport Performance Analyst?
Foreword I am delighted that the Clyde Street blog will host three guest posts written by Jamie Coles. I was introduced to Jamie during his undergraduate course at Cardiff Met. He is now a Masters...
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Jamie Coles Guest Post 2: What makes the perfect sport performance analyst? –...
What makes the perfect sport performance analyst? – Questionnaire Blog #PerformanceAnalystLearning #EducationToConsultation #RelevanceToIntelligence Calling all practitioners Introduction In my first...
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Australian Sport Thesaurus online as an open data resource
The Australian Sports Commission has made available the Australian Sport Thesaurus in xml format as an open data initiative to assist the sporting community. Link (The Thesaurus is hosted by...
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One of Jacquie Tran‘s delightful sketchnotes appeared in my Twitter feed a couple of days ago … What is performance analysis? Here's the @SydneyFC definition, from Doug Kors #SAC17 #sketchnotes...
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The Spirit of Sport
Introduction Two events this week in the world of athletics have sent me off thinking about the essence of sport. By coincidence, a friend, Daniel O’Leary has been thinking about spirituality in sport...
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Developing resources for #abbotsthon17
I was in Dublin last week and had the opportunity to meet Alan Swanton, Performance Analyst Lead, and Daragh Sheridan, Head of Capability and Expertise, at Sport Ireland Institute. Alan has made a...
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Fogo helping us out of our fog
I have discovered Fogo Island, Newfoundland. … through a documentary about the Fogo Island Inn. The documentary introduced me to Zita Cobb and her visions for cultures and spaces. Zita’s ideas for the...
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Threads
This month, Mary Taguchi has an exhibition of Kasuri cotton fabrics at the Altenberg & Co in Braidwood, NSW. In her description of the fabrics, Mary writes: The old cloths tell the story of...
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Skill and chance in football goal scoring
These data appeared in my in box this morning. Their arrival took me back to Charles Reep and Bernard Benjamin’s observation fifty years ago: an excess of shots by one team does not mean that, by...
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Spring cleaning #OERuSIA ready for #Abbotsthon17
I have been getting ready for #Abbotsthon17 in October in Dublin at the HPX 2017 Knowledge Exchange Conference. As part of the day’s workshop, I have planned an autoresponse pre-workshop sharing of...
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#RUOK? Day 2017
This year’s R U OK? day is on Thursday, 14 September. It is “a day of action dedicated to reminding everyone that we’ve all got what it takes to ask, “are you ok?” and support those struggling with...
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Critical friendship thoughts for #RUOK day: from a sport perspective
Thursday, 14 September, is R U OK? Day in Australia. I have been thinking about the role critical friendship can play in conversations about personal well-being in sport. One of the papers that has...
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