In this episode I'm joined by Kevin Nicol, Manager of Mjøndalen who compete in Obos Ligaen, the second tier of the Norwegian football pyramid.

In this episode we discuss the connections between Kevin's lived experience of senior performance coaching and insights from a recent study Kevin published looking at Norwegian perspectives on competence support in football.

Topics discussed include:

- Structure in tactical planning and execution

- Player-coach closeness essential to setting up effective competence support

- Distinctions between structure and control (and whether semantics is getting in the way of being effective)

- Knowing what situations call for and acting through feel and experience

- Plus more!

Link to Kevin's paper:

Coaches’ Provision of Structure for Players’ Competence Development: Perspectives of Professional Soccer Coaches and Players in Norway in: International Sport Coaching Journal - Ahead of print DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions I express on the podcast are my own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of my employers. Similarly the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by my guests do not represent my own as the host. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only.

Music - Winter Legacy. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi from White Records.

In this episode I chat with Matthew Watson, a coach and PhD researcher in Esport Coaching. We use our time together to explore and discuss the interesting, growing, but not overly dissimilar coaching domain of Esports.

Themes discussed include:

- Evolution of Esport coaching

- The Esport coaching process (as we know so far)

- What mainstream sport coaches can learn from Esport coaches, and vice versa.

- Future of Esport coaching practice and research

- Plus more!

Link to Matthew's paper: Introducing esports coaching to sport coaching (not as sport coaching): Sports Coaching Review: Vol 0, No 0 DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions I express on the podcast are my own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of my employers. Similarly the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by my guests do not represent my own as the host. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only.

Music - Winter Legacy. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi from White Records.

In this episode I'm joined by Richard Husseiny, a performance coach for support staff in sport, and founder of Men Behind Sport. In this episode we discuss the sport coach as a performer, and person, with their own important support needs.

Themes discussed include:

- Systemic and cultures issues in coaching leading to burnout and poor health

- Synergy between coach wellbeing and performance

- Role of value structures for mapping out a path to harmony between work life and personal life

- Coach toolbox for better engagement and detachment in the job.

- Plus more!

Link to Richard's Untapped Potential podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/show/0NXX6KtppDkVqrXJqzyLs9?si=d66a82eac3b44e5a

DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions I express on the podcast are my own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of my employers. Similarly the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by my guests do not represent my own as the host. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only.

Music - Winter Legacy. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi from White Records.

In this episode I'm joined by Mark Adams, a social inclusion officer at Glasgow City Council, to discuss how coaches can mould better citizens and stronger individuals within their practice.

Topics discussed include:

- Reconceptualising the contemporary sport coach as a powerful social actor (when trained and supported to be so)

- Teaching independent thought and awareness around influence to empower resistance against damaging beliefs

- Valuing open communication over punishment to address social ignorance

- How to hold conversations around social topics related to the demographic you coach.

- Plus more!

DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions I express on the podcast are my own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of my employers. Similarly the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by my guests do not represent my own as the host. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only.

Music - Winter Legacy. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi from White Records.

In this episode I'm joined by independent coach and coach developer Russell Earnshaw to discuss launching your own business within sport coaching, and making it a success.

Topics discussed include:

- Rise of the sport coaching consultant and self-employed coach

- Belief in your value and commitment to a business goal

- Finding a niche in the market and market analysis

- Building your menu of services

- Networking in the business world

- Building and sustaining your material and relational brand

- Pus more!

Check out Russell's podcast: The Magic Academy (buzzsprout.com)

DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions I express on the podcast are my own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of my employers. Similarly the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by my guests do not represent my own as the host. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only.

Music - Winter Legacy. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi from White Records.

In this episode I'm joined by Dr Laura Carey, Sport Psychologist and Lecturer at UWS to discuss her latest paper which reveals the neural pathology of successful vs unsuccessful putting performance among expert golfers.

Topics discussed include:

- Profile of different brainwave frequencies and their impact on skill execution

- Deep dive into experimental research in neuroscience of sporting performance and sticking points for consensus

- Putting effort back into neural efficiency and other misconceptions of expert performance

- Principles of technology informed coaching (current pitfalls and solutions)

- Plus more!

Link to Laura's paper:

Frontiers | Commit to your putting stroke: exploring the impact of quiet eye duration and neural activity on golf putting performance (frontiersin.org)

DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions I express on the podcast are my own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of my employers. Similarly the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by my guests do not represent my own as the host. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only.

Music - Winter Legacy. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi from White Records.

In this episode I discuss findings from a chapter of my PhD research which looked at influences on the coach-created motivational environment.

I discuss the challenges of coaching your own child, and implications for the quality of your coaching environment.

Themes discussed include:

- Hopes and fears for the parent-child relationship

- Using your child as a coaching tool

- Hypersensitivity as a parent-coach

- Parenthood as coach education

- Motivational theory as a means of understanding and directing coach behaviour

- And more!

Link to my PhD thesis here: STORRE: A qualitative multiple case study exploration of the antecedents of the interpersonal behaviours of youth football coaches in Scotland based on a self-determination theory framework (stir.ac.uk)

DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions I express on the podcast are my own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of my employers. Similarly the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by my guests do not represent my own as the host. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only.

Music - Winter Legacy. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi from White Records.

In this episode I'm joined by Dr Adam Nichol, Assistant Professor in Sociology of Sport at Northumbria University, to discuss all things influence on and through coach behaviours, using both sociological and philosophical theory.

Topics discussed include:

- Unintended (non)influence of pedagogical practice

- The ambiguous relationship between observed coaching behaviours and athlete outcomes based on systematic review

- Critical realism as a means of understanding complex coaching reality

- Noticing, norm circles, and orchestration within coaching

- Sociological theory as a vital tool for understanding and directing coaches' work

- And more!

DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts, and opinions I express on the podcast are my own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of my employers. Similarly the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by my guests do not represent my own as the host. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only.

Examining the Relationships Between Coaching Practice and Athlete “Outcomes”: A Systematic Review and Critical Realist Critique in: International Sport Coaching Journal Volume 6 Issue 1 () (humankinetics.com) Full article: Coaching in the shadows: critically examining the unintended (non)influence of pedagogical practice (tandfonline.com)

Music - Winter Legacy. The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi from White Records.