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Sports Psychology: Building relationships with your players by Tom Banister-Fletcher

For anyone coaching an ultimate team, building relationships with your players should be a priority. Not only will it make training more fun, you'll perform better too.

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When we are coaching Ultimate we are continually socially interacting with our players. We need to be able to work with them, communicate effectively and understand each other, often over a period of months or years. In Ultimate, especially at the elite level, we also face the challenge of person-managing large squads. For example, balancing players’ expectations of playing time, resolving personal disputes within a team and simply working one-to-one with a player to develop their game. In order for […]

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