Neil Tovey Talks about South Africa's chances at the Olympics

 

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Neil Tovey analyses Euro2020 from a coaching perspective

 

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Who are the athletes to look out for at the Olympics?

 

With the Olympics about a month away and the deadline to qualify for the Olympics coming up on the 29th June we take a look at athletics and what it means to athletes and schools. We are privileged to have three time Olympian and TUKS lecturer, LJ van Zyl, and content creator and sport journalist Manfred Seidler, talk about the Olympic Games and what we should expect from the games

How do you transition from a school athlete to a professional athlete?

With the Olympics about a month away and the deadline to qualify for the Olympics coming up on the 29th June we take a look at athletics and what it means to athletes and schools. We are privileged to have three time Olympian and TUKS lecturer, LJ van Zyl talking to us about Athletics and opportunities that school kids have at getting recognized, transitioning from school to professional athletics and being able to participate at the Olympics. Together with LJ we have content creator and ex journalist Manfred Seidler who has over 30 years of experience working in Athletics and reporting on sports events including the Olympics over those 30 years. LJ de Villiers did his masters on the difficulties that athletes have transitioning from a school athlete to a professional athlete and here, LJ together with Manfred, identifies these problems and then goes on to talk about other issues that athletes face.

 

What is SuperSport Schools and how can it benefit your School?

 

There are many OTT packages out there including the new SuperSport Schools, what does this mean to schools and how can they benefit from them? What are the benefits of showing live school sport? How can you take advantage of it? How do you market on an OTT platform? Can your sponsors get coverage on SuperSport Schools? Who can you contact and what sports do they cover? SuperSport Schools exists to grow schools sport and get more sports stars to shine, across the African continent by broadcasting the full South African SCHOOLS SPORT story – from the beginning! Our vision is to extend this to encompass the African Continent. SuperSport Schools records and live-streams schools sport automatically – indoors and outdoors – so that parents and other interested parties can watch from anywhere LIVE, or any time ON-DEMAND and at NO COST to the viewer. If you want to listen to our webinars live register here https://bit.ly/3uWlr8g Video Editor Cyberlink this will help for content creation and video analysis for athletes: https://bit.ly/3ysQ5bR

In Tune with Coaching discusses SuperSport’s Schools streaming app.

 

Start your month on a thrilling and informative note as the exciting In Tune with Coaching live webinar series returns and will focus on the SuperSport Schools app and how it can benefits school’s sport.

The latest edition will take place this Thursday, 03 June 2021 between 18h00-19h00 (CAT).  Register here: https://bit.ly/3vu4TEW and be a part of the webinar for FREE.

This week’s topic will be focused on Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming services; particularly the SuperSport School’s app service which has joined the current OTT streaming offerings from Pitchvision and DigiTV SA.

The demand of school sports streaming services has steadily been on the rise and appetite has expanded over the past 12 months largely due to Covid 19 pandemic restrictions which prevent spectators from watching school’s sports live on the ground.

The In Tune with Coaching platform is eager to lace you up with insight from some of the brightest minds in SA OTT broadcasting, featuring SuperSport’s Senior Commercial Manager, Rendani Ramovha.

Host and organizer, Belluigi is thrilled to be hosting the series with the next episode exploring the exciting topic of OTT Services and their potential impact on school’s sport. 

“We have got an exciting one hour where we will tap into the mind of one of the leaders in sport broadcasting who is overseeing the growth of the SuperSport Schools app,” he said. 

“I believe OTT is the way to go in the future of school’s sport and the benefits of these services are immense, it will be interesting to hear more of the benefits of these platforms and what goes behind setting this service.”  Belluigi added. 

The series, hosted by Intune Communications and Entertainment Director, Shawn Belluigi, began during the first lockdown last year and is aimed at empowering leaders in sport through conversations with industry leaders from different codes and disciplines.

Previous talking points addressed include the importance of playing multiple sports at school, the glaring differences in our socioeconomic makeup in sport and “the science to the art of coaching”. 

The recordings of the archived webinars can be located on Intune Communications’ YouTube Page (https://bit.ly/2RPeMyz). 

 

 

 

About guest, Rendani Ramovha:

Ramovha is the Senior Commercial Manager at SuperSport. He was appointed to the position in January 2021, and prior to that led the Sports Marketing division of Multichoice Africa Holdings. He holds vast expertise and understanding of the marketing and sales sectors with experience working across the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industry before growing his footprint in sport. He graduated from the University of Johannesburg with a Masters in Marketing specialising in Strategic Marketing and Brand Leadership, and also holds a ‘Strategic Leadership’ certificate from the GIBS Business School. He is passionate about sport and the advancement of it, having played semi-pro rugby in the Varsity Cup and in Wales for a club stint. He is a leader with vision and purpose supported by strong planning and project management skills

The In Tune with Coaching live webinar series is set to take place bi-weekly on Thursdays from 18h00-19h00. A reminder of how you can register for FREE here:https://bit.ly/3uWlr8g. 

 

Q&A with the Locker Room - Integrating the art and science of coaching

 

Integrating the art and science of coaching in a person-centred environment ensuring coaching effectiveness and healthy, injury-free athletes.

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Dr Mary Ann Dove, Dr Janine Gray and Andrew Gray have launched their new company ‘The Locker Room’ with the aim to expose coaches to some of the latest thinking in coaching best practice and translating scientific research into practical solutions. The team of experts will provide coaches with tools to develop players as both people and athletes while encouraging participation, performance and personal development. They will enhance the coaches’ professional and interpersonal knowledge to achieve athlete outcomes in different coaching contexts. Their aim is to inform the coaches’ responsibility and understanding of injury prevention and management to reduce the attrition rate, improve performance, and contribute to the long-term physical and mental well-being of the athlete. They will introduce the science of coaching, and identify practices that have been shown to improve performance and a players’ technical ability. Contact them at https://www.thelockerroom.org.za/

Making Coaches and Athletes Better - Andrew Gray

 Integrating the art and science of coaching in a person-centred environment ensuring coaching effectiveness and healthy, injury-free athletes.

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Andrew Gray talks about the holistic approach to coaching and latest trends in high performance coaching.

How do you prevent injuries for sport performance - Dr Janine Gray

 

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Janine talks about injury trends and how to prevent these injuries

Coaching with Emotional Intelligence - Dr Mary Ann Dove

 

Integrating the art and science of coaching in a person-centred environment ensuring coaching effectiveness and healthy, injury-free athletes.

If you want to listen to our webinars live register here Dr Mary Ann Dove, Dr Janine Gray and Andrew Gray have launched their new company ‘The Locker Room’ with the aim to expose coaches to some of the latest thinking in coaching best practice and translating scientific research into practical solutions.

Organised school sport for children and adolescents COVID 19 and beyond

 

How do you get back to school sport in a safe way? What does school sport look like after the Corona Virus? What criteria do you need to follow to run school sport in a safe way? What does the future of school sport look like? Professor's Candice Christie (University of Rhodes), policy brief lead, and Professor Rowena Naidoo (University of KZN) led a team of professors, scientists and sporting personalities from most of the universities in South Africa together with other a couple of universities from other countries in Africa and sporting research agencies came up with a brief to assist schools with the best practice guidelines to return sport to schools. “Sport has the power to change the world” – Nelson Mandela. Regular participation in exercise, sport and physical activity offers many proven benefits for children and adolescents. Beyond just the obvious physical advantages, physical activity plays an important role in promoting mental health and well-being and social development in children. Schools provide many opportunities for physical activity, in the form of structured and unstructured play, as physical education within the formal academic curriculum or through informal and formal organised sport, including competitive intra- or inter-school activity. This policy brief focuses on formal organised sport in schools and provides guidelines on how to manage school sport during a pandemic. It is premised on the fact that sports participation is important for both the physical and mental well-being of children, as a platform for safe and enjoyable physical activity, and a foundation for acquiring life skills and promoting social interaction. This brief draws on the principles and benefits of physical activity articulated by complimentary policy briefs in this series and from other literature. It is the outcome of a collective effort of experts concerned about the current and future impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents who engage in organised sports in school. As many types of organised sport involves close physical contact, it is designed to provide guidance to all those engaged in organised sport in schools; participating learners, educators, coaches, parents/caregivers, spectators and the communities, on how to practice the best possible safety measures during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. This policy brief is best used alongside safety guidelines developed by Health Departments of national, regional and local governments and international health guidelines, as set out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) pandemic response team. Further, this document augments existing school organised sport policies, but can also serve as a stand-alone guide.

Dealing with Mental Health with Sports Psychologist Eugene Oppelt

 Are mental health issues only for high performers or does everyone suffer from mental health issues?

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How can you use sport to assist kids with mental health issues? Are you and your team able to deal with the pressures on the field? What is Mental Health? Do only to athletes face the pressures on the field? Has the lockdowns had an affect on athletes and coaches? How do you deal with various issues on the field of play? Mental Heath has been in the news quite often in decent times with international sports stars coming out and talking about what they have gone through and how they dealt with it. When Marcus Trescothick spoke about his difficulties in 2006 which led him to withdraw himself from the English cricket team and eventually retire from international cricket, mental health was still considered something that you don’t talk about. This is stigma still persists but it is finally breaking loosing its stigma as a taboo subject. According to the U.K. Surgeon Journal (1999), mental health is the successful performance of mental function resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships, being able to adapt to change and cope with adversities. These are things that we all deal with on a daily basis and no one is immune. So how do we deal with it? How can we turn certain situations into a positive and get results from them? How do we help ourselves, other coaches and our athletes? Eugene Oppelt is a Consulting Psychologist that works with elite athletes and teams across South Africa, including the Stellenbosch University’s Maties Sport High Performance programme. He dealt with questions around mental health, creating a high performance environment, working with all kids and not just top athletes and finally the effect of the coronavirus on kids and their return to school and playing sport. Sport is not only a place where kids have mental health issues, it is also a place where mental health issues are dealt with and there are programs in place to assist kids with dealing with life’s problems.

IWC chats to Neil Tovey about Setting up an Academy

 

South African sporting icon, Neil Tovey will be the latest guest in the next Intune With Coaching live webinar series edition, aimed at providing functional insight on what goes into setting up a sports academy, coaching clinic, and programme, with the focus primarily on football.

The hugely anticipated webinar will take place on Thursday, 01 April at 6 PM LIVE on Zoom Teams. Register HERE and get exclusive access to one of the country’s finest football administrative minds…for FREE.

This episode follows an interview with the Department of Basic Education’s Bongani Zondi around the regulations for the resumption of school sports, and the presentation given by Intune Communication and Entertainment Founder, Kassey Belluigi regarding the importance of building a brand as a coach.

Tovey, an ex-Bafana Bafana captain, led the nation to our only Africa Cup of Nations trophy which culminated with the famous two-nil triumph in the final against Tunisia in 1996, with former president Nelson Mandela working his Madiba magic at the stadium and across the nation.

Following an illustrious career that spanned nearly 20 years, where he represented Durban City, AmaZulu and Kaizer Chiefs for a combined 632 times while notching up 52 caps for the national team, the former central defender also took up coaching. He completed his UEFA A licence with a record 90% pass rate on his way to coaching in and winning the Rothmans Cup, Telkom Charity Cup, and the COSAFA Cup with Banyana Banyana.

Long before serving as the SAFA Technical Director between 2015-2020, Tovey also played an integral part in the forming of the Transnet School of Excellence in 1994, an academy that has since produced elite international and local stars such as Steven Pienaar and Bernard parker.

 During the QnA with host and Intune Communications and Entertainment Director, Shawn Belluigi, Tovey will be discussing the tools one needs to get an academy or clinic off the ground.

 This will include the approvals and policies required; the inclusion of education; scouting and recruitment; standard of coaching; coaching programmes; sponsorship; the possible challenges, including the impact of COVID-19, and much more.

 There will also be time set aside for the audience to pose their questions to Mr Tovey, to provide full value to the coaches and administrators.

 Ahead of the webinar, Belluigi confirmed the idea behind bringing in the stalwart and the choice of the topic: “The restrictions that were imposed due to the coronavirus have been lifted and now it is time to get back to playing school sport. Neil will help coaches setup their academies and coaching structures so we can get back to playing sport as soon as possible.

 “I cannot wait until we can spend our weekends watching our kids play their sport of choice and Neil will give us the tools to do it as quickly as possible, that’s what makes this episode so exciting.” he added.

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