Coaching Craft – Chapter 5 – Modern Day Coaching Methodologies

This chapter details the power of positive psychology and how you never want to be an athlete's last coach.

Coaching Craft – Chapter 4 – Establishing Your Coaching Philosophies

This chapter details how to create your coaching philosophies, and how to then build the type of environment that you put on paper.

Coaching Automatisms – Rehearsed Patterns of Play

In the past few years, I have adopted an almost entirely games-based approach to coaching. Everything is based within scenarios and situations players encounter in the game, and related to rehearsed actions on where to be in different situations players encounter on a football pitch. These are what the footballing world call "patterns of play", and what some top managers in the game have dubbed "automatizations".

Creating a Game Model – with Sam Holmshaw – TMS Podcast

You might have heard some buzz recently in the coaching world about something called "game models". But what exactly is a game model and why is it so important to coaches across the globe? Sam Holmshaw joins the podcast to discuss his insight into creating game models, and shares his experiences working in the UK coaching and football scene.