The Athletic Skills Model, ASM, suggests that coaches think of themselves as landscape gardeners. Cultivating information-rich environments. Spaces that invite learners to explore – discover – adapt.
Yet declining physical activity levels suggest the time for tinkering in the garden is over.
The task is to raise active, healthy, and curious kids in a competitive world. Emotionally mature children with fundamental movement skills. But first, we need to provide an example worth copying.
Parents, we need you to lead by example. Don’t wait. Far better that we become a warrior in the garden than a gardener in a war.