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Daniel L.'s avatar

It is alleviating to know that many coaches like yourself, as mentioned in your 3 part episode on CYBO, listen to the podcast on their way to coach, in their car or in their leisure time. This year I am making an effort to not only listen to podcast and other coaches, in general, but apply what I am learning. I resonated with your experience of trying to build rapport with the team you are working with in Korea and how the language barrier and having to translate a lot of what you say makes it hard!! I’m big on connections and small “inside” jokes to facilitate the learning process and help create a more welcoming environment for athletes that I coach. I hope that is going well. Can’t wait until they have you on again or we get an update here.

That is something I have been seeing slot of or has been reoccurring in a lot of what I’ve been listening or reading, is to just do that work. Along with the doing is to be consistent with doing it.

I think the hard part is showing todays young, developing and aspiring athletes that it really does take a lot of work to be competent at a particular sport or skill. In my eyes, the earlier you start to practice or play a sport regardless of what level or intensity, it’s those who excel in their sport that started doing it at a young age and against someone who was older in age. How do you recreate that for a player who missed out on that opportunity and is now 14, 15, 16 y/o.

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Loma Siegel's avatar

Love this post!

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