Mission

From my earliest days as a cricket coach, I’ve been fascinated by what creates performance.

At first I thought that if cricketers have flawless technique they will perform. I deep dived biomechanics, got qualified as one of the youngest Cricket South Africa Level 3 coaches at the age of 21 and I coached... a lot.

I searched deeper through reading, scouring the internet for any of the latest research and explored through my clients every new theory or idea that I came across... There was some early successes, however I and my clients mostly failed.  I was fortunate to work at the Daryl Cullinan and later the Jimmy Cook Cricket Academies, where I could really test my ideas and form my core principles and concepts from a technical point of view into a seamless understanding of the technical side of cricket.

Yet, I found that even though I could more clearly articulate and coach the technical side of the game the cricketers I worked with became more skillful and yet still struggled to perform consistently.  I again started a search... what stops performance from happening?  Why is it there some days and other not?  Why do cricketers feel confident only to fail? Why do they sometimes not feel confident and performance comes?

I searched high and low and found that the mind is the most powerful influencer on performance and so I set about learning how to work with the mind of a cricketer.

At first I learned the normal sports psychology things... like motivation, confidence, arousal control.  These are all tool to use and tools are important, however they fall short and fail to be a lasting solution as they address the mindset side of sports treating all athletes as similar, when in reality we are different.

I then found coaching methodology, called Meta-Coaching, which has systems and processes that allow me to coach each cricketer on a more personal level. This allows each cricketer to become more aware of how they hold themselves back and it brings awareness to their own unique solutions to performance problems. This work is wonderful to do... yet I found that it still falls short in understanding performance.  How does performance happen?

I looked deeper, further and wider than ever before and got into the weeds to discover what I now believe makes performance happen. What I discovered was that the things that sport psychology has made popular for sports mental performance is only  the tip of the ice berg.

What unlocks performance and makes it happen is a series of understanding and embracing these within ourselves that can truly set performance free.

My holistic coaching services addresses individuals cricketing needs in that I have solutions at a technical, tactical, mental and soon physical level for every cricketer.