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HOW Create a Team Culture… Rites, Rituals, Routines and Artefacts

Posted on July 16, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
So much is out there on “Culture” it is sometimes hard to know where to look and what to look for…?! A quick Google search brings up 4,920,000,000 results when you type “Culture” into the se... Read More

What makes GAIN…? (GAIN XI 2018)

Posted on June 18, 2018July 2, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
Having just landed back home after another amazing professional development week during GAIN XI at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, I’d thought I would share with you, through photos, snipp... Read More

Old Wine… New Bottles… DIFFERENT STICKERS ii Learning Theories

Posted on June 8, 2018June 10, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
  “…from its inception, the interpretation of TGfU has been through the prism of discovery learning (Cobb and Yackel 1996; Phillips 1995). It was only in the 1990s that PE pedagogues later as... Read More

Old Wine… New Bottles… DIFFERENT STICKERS…

Posted on May 20, 2018May 20, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
One of the reasons for writing my Blogs is to share some of the research out there and bring it to life. This Blog Article is inspired by this research article by Stephen Harvey, Shane Pill and Len Al... Read More

Coaches’ needs at different levels of coaching…

Posted on May 13, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
The differences between a coaches’ needs in Community… then Development… then Performance… After writing a Blog the other week on WHY Player-centred Coaching, Paul Hunter (Manager of National ... Read More

WHY Player-centred Coaching… ii

Posted on May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
Comparing Coach and Player Centred Coaching… As I have already said over the last couple of weeks, if coaches/teachers/parents are more aware of the differences between these two approaches/phil... Read More

Player-centred Coaching…

Posted on April 22, 2018April 29, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
“When it doesn’t feel right… Go left…” “The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one ... Read More

Sharing Knowledge…

Posted on April 16, 2018April 29, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
The first Blog of a new commitment to myself to stay true to one of my values of creating, launching and building my website… To share my knowledge and experiences with others… “When one person ... Read More

The $1,000,000 question…

Posted on July 12, 2017June 11, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
Last week I was invited up to Wilmslow High School by Matt Bebbington to carry out some CPD for their rugby coaches. Therefore, I thought I would share with you a few of the things that I asked the co... Read More

“Life after your PGCE year… My Journey…” Part 2

Posted on July 7, 2017July 12, 2017 by NickHillCoaching
What will you see… For the next part of the presentation I gave them a look into what they will see in the future… and some of the experiences that I have experienced over the last 15 years teachi... Read More
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  • Coaching Journey
    • Northamptonshire Grammar School
    • Denstone College
    • Nudgee College, Brisbane
    • Canterbury Crusaders
    • Ulster Rugby
    • Brian Ashton Kukri Academy
    • The Grange School, Santiago, Chile
    • The Greenhouse School, Temuco, Chile
    • GAIN VIII, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
      • GAIN VIII Mission 2015
    • Temuco Rugby Club, Temuco, Chile
    • Old Boys Rugby Club, Santiago, Chile
    • GAIN IX, Rice University, Houston Texas, USA
      • GAIN IX Reading List 2016
    • Brisbane Grammar School
    • Fiji 7s pre-Rio Olympic Games Training Camp, Santiago, Chile
    • England Rugby Training
    • GAIN X
  • Philosophy of Coaching
    • Long-term Player Development
    • The BETTER Performance Pyramid
    • The ‘360 degree’ Rugby Player
    • Player-Centred Coaching
      • Team Culture
      • ‘Teaching Games for Understanding’ (‘TGfU’)
      • Questioning
    • Principles of Play
    • Tactical Periodisation
    • Athletic Development
  • Principles of Coaching
    • Whole-Part-Whole
    • Purposeful Deliberate Training
    • ‘Questioning’
    • Constraints-led Coaching
    • ‘Teaching Games for Understanding’ (‘TGfU’)
    • Implicit Learning
    • Coaching Process
    • Conditioned Games
      • Attack Focus Games
      • Defence Focus Games
      • Counter Attack Focus Games
  • BLOG
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      • Conditioned Games
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