Player Development Project Podcast - Learning Tools for Soccer Coaching

Challenging the System: A Conversation with Mark Upton

October 08, 2019 Player Development Project
Player Development Project Podcast - Learning Tools for Soccer Coaching
Challenging the System: A Conversation with Mark Upton
Show Notes

This Masterclass Discussion is a special 60 minute edition featuring one of our longest supporting contributors and a genuine coaching innovator, Mark Upton. Mark is hosted by PDP Editor, Dave Wright to discuss contemporary coaching environments, organisational culture, sports science and much more.

We dive down a number of rabbit holes in this one from sporting culture, the purpose of youth sport through to academic literature and how to comprehend it plus the commercialisation of youth sport and how current paradigms have been influenced by tradition and industry. There are lots of ideas for coaches in this one.

Mark is the Co-founder of myfastestmile, a social enterprise designed to examine how sport provides meaning for people from participation to performance. He also has extensive experience in AFL and working at both the Australian Institute of Sport & the English Institute of Sport. For more of Mark’s articles on playerdevelopmentproject.com or myfastestmile.com.

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