by Tim Rees | Performance Enhancement, Talent Development
It’s one of the strongest stereotypes in world sport: England’s national football team is bad at penalty shootouts. Trotted out whenever England find themselves in the knockout phases of an international tournament, this time-worn stereotype always seems most...
by Tim Rees | Performance Enhancement, Research, Talent Development
Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash I gave my inaugural Professorial lecture in November 2017. Below are both a short prelude to the lecture, as well as the entire lecture, videoed from the audience.
by Tim Rees | Research, Talent Development
Creating high performance sportspeople is something like alchemy, and comes with the same baggage of half-thoughts, assumptions and quasi-quackery. But the research has moved on, and we can put to bed three powerful myths about building the ultimate athlete. The first...
by Tim Rees | Research, Talent Development
How do you navigate the literature on talent? A google search with the term “talent development in sport” brings up “about” 1,420,000 results. These range from opinion pieces to academic articles. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion. And often...