Biomechanics Sport Teaching 
Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
More, Younger Youth sports occupy a special place in American culture, shaping childrens character, health, and social lives. Across the United States, an increasing number of parents and coachesoften with good intentionsseek to introduce sports to children at younger and younger ages and with greater intensity than ever before.
Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 5, 2025
Teaching is a complex and sometimes complicated endeavour. The goal of physical education teaching is student learning and it is the teacher who has the responsibility for directing the learning through their curriculum (program design), pedagogy and assessment decision-making.
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Montessori Physical Education
JUNE 8, 2025
Most PE teachers teach six, seven, or even eight classes a day with barely a moment in between. It could involve using heart rate data in a graphing activity, analyzing movement mechanics in a science unit, or playing a traditional indigenous sport from a culture the students are studying. Start small. Stay consistent.
Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 31, 2025
In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. Sport Education. A season of sport. Adventure Education.
Gopher Sport
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Time should be set aside at the start of the year to teach students movement competence concepts related to walking. Types of Walking Teaching students the skill of walking starts with identifying types of walking. It is fast, but it is not biomechanically sound. What to Teach? Purposeful Walking. How Fast is Enough?
Better Coaching
JANUARY 22, 2017
Youth sports coaches are the men and women who volunteer their time to teach our youth the many life lessons we can acquire through sports. However, my experience as a youth sports coach has allowed me to observe many coaches conducting practices, games, post-game speeches, and clinics. Wasting Time.
Better Coaching
MARCH 5, 2021
In a systematic review of curveballs as a risk factor, conducted by 3 medical doctors, first published in PubMed in August of 2013, the researchers aimed to evaluate the scientific evidence regarding the curveball and its impact on pitching biomechanics and the overall risk of arm injuries in baseball pitchers.
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