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Welcome to the Blue Jackets Hockey League Car Ride Podcast, hosted by Derek Read. This podcast equips you with practical tools and insights derived from academic research in sports and educational psychology, sports science, and more. It's designed to enhance your work with young athletes in the Blue Jackets Hockey League. Additionally, it serves as a platform for reflection on your coaching practices and integrating best practice principles. Our goal is to enrich your coaching skills and fo ...
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This weeks focus is on positive self-talk, an important tool to help athletes face competition anxiety, build confidence, and help motivation. We start with defining self-talk and the different variations and functions it has. Then we talk about what we as coaches can do to make it easier for our players to have positive self-talk and build their s…
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Welcome back to the Blue Jackets Hockey League Car Ride Podcast! This episode we talk about communication and interaction, using Kaupilla's Wheel of Interaction as a tool we coaches can use to deal with different situations with our athletes. The challenge this episode is to reflect back on any difficult interactions you have had with athletes and …
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How can we build our questioning skills as coaches? We tackle this question in this episode by sharing three essential things to do when asking questions to athletes. We talk about getting away from short conversations with closed questions and how to get more focus on the understanding from our athletes. We finish with some quality leads from the …
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This episode is all about feedback. We start by quickly going through the observation and decision making process from USA Hockey that helps us decide what to give feedback on and when to give it. We then discuss the important things to keep in mind when deciding how to give feedback, including not overcoaching, being open to discussion, and giving…
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This episode features information on the Fun Integration Theory and aims to provide information on why fun is important to understand, and what fun is for a young athlete. It also aims to provide practical actions for how we as coaches can increase the fun for our athletes. After listening to this episode, reflect on how often you talk to the kids …
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In this episode we introduce the Blue Jackets Hockey League Car Ride Podcast and speak on our first topic which is the prerequisites for learning. We discuss what learning is and the nature of learning being a risky activity. We then break down the tools we can use as coaches to help players feel safer when learning and embrace the activities a bit…
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