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Too Many Cooks, Not Enough Gourmets: Examining Provision and Use of Feedback for the Developing Athlete

This study began after a conversation with a player I was coaching. Between academy, school, international and senior te...

21st March 2022

What is Biopsychosocial?

There is currently lots of discussion about the concept of Biopsychosocial in the sporting world at the moment -...

4th March 2022

Feedback in Coaching - Seeing it Differently

Traditionally in sport, we see the provision of feedback as a one-way activity. Coach sp...

25th February 2022

Creating and Keeping a Culture: Lighting Up the ‘Dark Side’ of Sports Directorship in Football

As with any new-ish profession, it seems fair to say that football is still findings its feet when it comes to S...

28th May 2019

Do YOU work in a “Chesil Beach” Organisation?

On the south (Jurassic) coast of England there is an eighteen-mile long pile of small stones called Chesil Beach...

16th August 2018

The Daily Mile – Cracking the obesity crisis or papering over the cracks?

Of the many health issues and concerns facing our society, the obesity crisis is the most significant. When obesity rate...

15th August 2018

Mental Health in Elite Performers - different challenges AND different skills

Concern with mental health is a hot topic across all aspects of human behaviour....

5th June 2018

The Triangular Approach

A key philosophy used by all of us at Grey Matters UK is that of the triangular approach in the way that we work with ou...

3rd May 2018

Learning in your sleep

We bought a piano at Christmas for our daughter, with the express purpose of she and I learning ...

26th February 2018

Pacing your fear

I have the pleasure of working with New Zealand Ski and Snowboard. The three events of ...

31st January 2018

Failing to succeed

In the old days, people used to talk about sport as character building. You might recall the famous quote about ...

29th January 2018

“In my experience…”

For many people, experience is a wonderful thing! Almost from birth, we are brought up to respect age si...

26th January 2018

It depends…

One of the biggest contributions of the internet has been an exp...

26th January 2018

They call it performance psychology for a reason...

When we talk about Performance Psychology, your first thought is sport. Next thought is often business, ...

26th January 2018

What to look for in a performance psychologist

Performance psychology is a growing business. It has taken a while but people seem to be catching on to ...

26th January 2018

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