Scott Lancaster

How a Simple Approach to Coaching Won a World Cup for Japan

How a Simple Approach to Coaching Won a World Cup for Japan

Our resident coach thinks he knows why Japan won the Women’s World Cup; they were having more fun.

Trick It Out Golf

Trick It Out Golf

Want to improve your golf game? Want your kids to take up the game and love it? Then learn about the all new PGA Trick It Out Golf.

Part 2: Lack of Athletic Creativity = A Missed Opportunity to Excel

Part 2: Lack of Athletic Creativity = A Missed Opportunity to Excel

The second part in an ongoing series on teaching our kids athletic creativity.

Athletic Creativity (Part One)—Do Organized Sports Limit Your Child’s Development?

Athletic Creativity (Part One)—Do Organized Sports Limit Your Child’s Development?

First in a series of blogs on “Athletic Creativity”—”Do Organized Sports Limit Your Child’s Development?”

Great Summer Reads: Parents Behaving Badly

Great Summer Reads: Parents Behaving Badly

The first of several book reviews that we think our readers will enjoy this summer.

Making Exercise Child’s Play

Making Exercise Child’s Play

As a US trainer brings to the UAE a fitness programme designed to trick kids into active sports, we find out why it’s important to vary the type of sport your child does, and how you can get children interested in playing sports

Taking Fun Seriously

Taking Fun Seriously

I hear the following repeated many times at youth practices – “It looks like your having too much fun out there guys.” or “Your going to start running if you don’t take this seriously.”

WAKE UP CALL FOR FOOTBALL: It’s time for youth football coaches to be Licensed!

WAKE UP CALL FOR FOOTBALL: It’s time for youth football coaches to be Licensed!

Helmet to helmet hits to the head. Our increased awareness of concussions. High school football teams forfeiting games due to rosters depleted by injuries. A college player left paralyzed from the neck down. The medical community warning parents that hits to the head may effect their children for the rest of their lives. Is that not enough for the football community to rethink the issue of safety at the youth level?

The Worldwide Trouble with Youth Sports: Apathy, Poverty, & Soccer

The Worldwide Trouble with Youth Sports: Apathy, Poverty, & Soccer

As Scott traveled through the United Emirates, South Africa and Cairo, Egypt, he found several striking things that they all had in common as it applied to youth sports: a sense of frustration, poverty, and soccer.

A Super-Sized Lifestyle

A Super-Sized Lifestyle

The United Emirates love their sports. Whether it’s soccer, rugby, cricket, horse racing, Formula 1, Golf, or on this particular weekend in Dubai skydiving competitions, there is no lack of sports to watch on television or in person. Yet very few Emirates actually participate in sports, and that includes their youth. As a matter of [...]

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