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hey coach my name is Nate Lun and I'm
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the National Training director here at
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upt sport we are excited to spend the
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next few minutes with you as we talk
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about our positive coaching experience
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training as coaches we got into coaching
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because we love our sport we love
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teaching skills taking what we've
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learned from our coaches passing it down
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to the next generation of athletes and
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today is all about how to teach skills
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in such a way that young people can
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actually rewire their brains from all of
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the effects of trauma and stress and
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make better Behavior decisions and to
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get started I want to talk about skill
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building because there's a lot of areas
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a lot of places in a young person's life
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that they can learn skills whether it's
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in school or poetry class or art class
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or at home or on the job there's a lot
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of places that they can learn skill but
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Sports is unique than all of the other
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areas because built into sports is just
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naturally the skill building element and
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I want to talk about a couple of those
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elements right here right now first one
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of the greatest aspects about sports is
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this immediate feedback loop I learn
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something I do something I see the
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effects of that I can analyze it make
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changes and get right back to doing that
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exact same thing again to see the
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effects of those changes this immediate
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feedback loop is different than all of
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the other areas in a young athlete's
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life I can quickly learn EX actly what
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it is that I did wrong make an
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adjustment and get right back to trying
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that same thing right away another way
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that Sports is so unique is you when you
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do something in sport you're doing it
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with a coach right there who's giv you
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another perspective who's given you
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coaching and technique you're having
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that person right there with you and
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that's completely different than every
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other place it's even different than
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going back home and telling Mom and Dad
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about what happened you have that real
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time coaching right there as you're
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doing something reason number three is
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that inherently sports are numbers
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driven there's analytics every shot
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attempt every uh pass attempt every Rush
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everything that you do is record it and
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you have this amazing thing that you can
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actually track your growth track how
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much better you're getting at a skill
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there's this beautiful thing called a PR
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a personal record that I don't have to
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compete against a South Curry or Michael
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Jordan I can compete against myself push
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my own personal record and then finally
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Sports is physical this physical
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experience that you're doing you can
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feel and see yourself getting better at
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the skill and that carries tremendous
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power for young people an athlete who's
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seeing theirself getting better at
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something it's going to motivate me in
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all kinds of different ways speaking of
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motivation let's talk about why any of
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this matters why does building skills
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matter for our athletes reason number
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one of why building skills is so
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important is that it motivates me to try
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new things I attempt something I I try
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to get better to skill I attempt
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something brand new I maybe take a new
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risk and then I get coaching I get
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better at it I get another opportunity
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to practice at it and when I finally get
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it when it finally clicks when all that
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practice pays off when all the technique
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all the coaching pays off it motivates
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me it excites me to try something new if
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I can do this then maybe I can do that
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new thing maybe I can try that new skill
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Maybe I can try that new position that
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new sport when I attempt to do something
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and I see myself doing it then it
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motivates me to try new things I'm now
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going to hand this off to our friend
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Mighty soul for some more reasons of why
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learning skills so important Mighty Soul
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reason number two is that we can take
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the skill with us not necessarily the
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sports specific skill but the process it
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took to learn and develop that
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skill believing that you can become good
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at something and then having the tools
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to actually do it helps you master
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things in other parts of your life as
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well a guy by the name of Robert Brooks
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did some research on this and he called
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it islands of
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competence in his work Dr Brooks found
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that helping young people develop skills
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even with the smallest tasks helped them
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experience success and then they had
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some legs to stand on when it came to
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tackling the next challenge or the next
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thing in their
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life so because they can do one thing
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even something so small as hanging up
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their backpacks on a hook every single
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day because they were successful at that
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they could try and eventually learn to
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do something else and that right there
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that ability is powerful when when you
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teach skills as a coach you probably
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naturally do some of the things that we
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know are best practices in teaching
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skills and some of those skills can be
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found on page 32 of your coach workbooks
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if you have those open and those are all
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great strategies we want you to keep
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those we want you to keep using those
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and we want to introduce to you four
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high leverage Skill Builders that you
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can begin to integrate into your
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coaching to really make a difference uh
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in the way that you're teaching your
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kids different kinds of skills so let's
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get into them the first skill that we
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want to get into is the 125 check-in and
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it is pretty straightforward as it
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sounds you you would just ask a young
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person on your team hey from 1 to 5 how
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are you doing from 1 to 5 how does that
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skill fit so this is a check-in to the
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young person uh one being not so great
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five being awesome fantastic wonderful
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so this allows you to
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really see or hear from the you know
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young person's perspective how they're
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doing in their day uh how they're
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feeling about that skill that they're
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trying out how they're feeling in that
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practice itself or even in the game
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right so this skill you can use
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really through out many circumstances
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and it's such a great and quick checking
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doesn't have to be super long uh it can
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be really really quick if you need it to
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be but it sets up this common language
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for you and the young people on your
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team and you know even between you know
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everyone on your team everyone can start
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using this language with each other to
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just check in on each other and uh it
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it's it starts to get the kid thinking
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about you know how am I feeling right
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now do I feel like I'm doing well at
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this am I struggling where am I at and
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so you as a coach right we want to be
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tuned into that because we want to know
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if we need to adjust the way that we're
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you know relating with them in that
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moment the way that we're setting up a
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certain drill maybe we need to you know
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shift things a bit and if they're having
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a tough day maybe we you know just have
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like a fun practice or or uh if they're
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feeling like they really mastered it and
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we see that they are really mastering
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this skill maybe we can set them up with
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the next challenge now so a great
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check-in to start using right away the
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next skill that I want to introduce to
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us is the instant replay this is a key
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reflection technique I think the one to
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five checkin is as well but this one is
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a reflection technique that gives the
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young person more space to discuss what
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they're feeling and what they're seeing
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out there and this really helps the kid
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you know or the young people on team
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look at what happened or or what is
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happening out there uh whether in
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practice or in a game you know on the
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field wherever it is uh and then they
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have to or they get to describe it and
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all you have to say as the coach is as
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the coach is hey give me the instant
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replay what just happened right
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there and they can describe to you a
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play that just went down
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from their perspective or maybe a
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difficult moment that happened between
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two players they get to tell you their
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perspectives on it so it really you know
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you get to put the mic down in that
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moment as the coach and really listen to
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what your player is is thinking um and
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how they saw the whole situation and it
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gives you a new perspective on the whole
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situation so really great um really
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great tool to start using in your
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coaching all right the third Advanced
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skill Builder I want to introduce to us
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is the demo show demo technique an
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awesome little technique to use as
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coaches especially because nothing can
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be more frustrating as a kid or for kids
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uh and I you know have experienced this
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before myself uh then having a coach can
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continually tell you to you know do
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something over and over and you're just
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like coach I am doing that what are you
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talking about uh but then of course you
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as a coach see that no your body isn't
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positioned the right way and that's why
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the ball's going this way or your shot's
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not going in or your swing is you know
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going like that
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so this technique really helps us show
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and demonstrate you know the right
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way or the way that we would like to see
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something happen and show them hey this
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is what you're doing and this is how you
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can get it back on that on that right
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track so let's go over this three-part
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technique the first part is demo right
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so you want to demonstrate what you want
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to see you want to demonstrate what the
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skill should look like how the free how
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your you know hands should be positioned
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you want to demonstrate the right
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way right then you want to show show
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what the young person is doing your hand
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you're you know twisting your wrist when
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you're making that shot and you want to
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physically show that right and then
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again you want to round it all off with
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this third step of demonstrate you want
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to demonstrate once again that right way
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that
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correct um technique that you are
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looking for and on top of this what you
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can do is have that young person right
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there next to you following along you
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know with you so that you can see you
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know if if you're both on the same page
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there so great technique uh that you
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want to start using as a coach and for
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our fourth and final Advanced skill
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Builder here another great one uh it is
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the how did you do that interview what
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so it is back if you remember this was
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from our
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trainings back back in the day uh
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relationships and culture if you can
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remember that but we're using it again
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as an advanced skill Builder we can use
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this when coaching when actually
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teaching skills because asking this
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question as we've talked about Let's us
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explore the process that a young person
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went through to learn a skill right to
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um put in that effort like how did you
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get to that goal you got to so it puts
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the focus on learning and how to learn
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and it is a process that goes into any
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kind of skill building so this interview
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is this how did you do that interview is
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a question we can ask when we are trying
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to help our young people build up any
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kind of skill
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all right so those are our four Advanced
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Skill Builders and I want to just say
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here that you know these might feel a
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little awkward to use at first and
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that's totally normal right just like
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with anything new we're learning we got
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to we have to get used to it a little
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bit but the only way we're going to be
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able to actually adopt these Skill
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Builders into our coaching into our
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coaching style is to actually use them
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so go out there and give it a try and
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then let us know how it goes thanks
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Mighty Soul now for the third and final
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reason of why skill building is so
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important I want to go back to this idea
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of growing and thriving we all want to
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see our kids grow and get better at
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something and get to a place where
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they're thriving where they're really
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pushing themselves they're really
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experiencing all kinds of really great
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things in their lives why though after
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for some of our kids after building
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great relationships and having strong
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culture using all the tricks of the
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trade all the things in my toolkit to
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really connect and help create a space
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for young people athletes take safe risk
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they athlete pushes themselves to learn
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new things why after doing everything
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that I know how to do does it still not
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click for some of our athletes well for
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that it's because they're starting their
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skill development at a different place
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before they can grow before they can get
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to thrive they actually need to start
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with healing they just might not see
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themselves as someone who can grow
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someone who can get better at things
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they may have all of these labels of
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this is just who I am I'm fixed and this
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is just who I'm always going to be and
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they need to actually start their skill
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development from a different place of
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healing I want to introduce you to
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something called The Ark method and this
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comes to us from the clinical world it
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was not made with sports in mind but it
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really has a lot of connective tissue a
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RC a stands for attachment think back to
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relationship ships not only myself as
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the coach and the athlete but athlete to
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athlete peer to peer these really deep
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relationships that Sports allows us to
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build R stands for regulation and sports
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is built with tons of Regulation whether
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it's the rhythm of your sport the rhythm
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of running the rhythm of dribbling the
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rhythm of whatever it is that your sport
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is or even if it's just the rhythm of I
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know this is going to happen we're going
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to transition to here and then this is
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going to happen the rhythm of Seasons
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the beginning and end of Seasons there's
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tons of Rhythm even to our breathing and
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breathing techniques all of these
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opportunities for rhythm helps Center
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ourselves and helps us get to a better
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place and the last thing is something
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we've been talking about this entire
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time see competence just learning how to
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learn how do I learn something and get
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really good at that Sports is such a
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great place to get young people to
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become athletes to embrace being an
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athlete to embrace being really good at
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their Sport and when you're helping an
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athlete become competent in something
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that helps with the healing process
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helping our athletes learn how to learn
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is an extremely powerful framework that
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you can use a attachment R regulation
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and C competence helping them get better
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at your sport can go a very long way in
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starting with this healing
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