
iam here to real work since i back Ethiopia..✊ I love What i do too and really eager to Learn in this sport🚴🏽♂️❤ Glory to all who give me opportunity before...🙏
Gudo Kramer
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@GudoKramer
HAN University, Marco Polo Cycling, Bike4All.

iam here to real work since i back Ethiopia..✊ I love What i do too and really eager to Learn in this sport🚴🏽♂️❤ Glory to all who give me opportunity before...🙏






'The reality is, African cycling has been experiencing a steady decline in representation at the highest level of the sport over the last 10 years' An open letter from Kevin Campbell, Manager of the @Q36_5ProCycling Conti team, which will soon close Read:open.substack.com/pub/globalpelo…










Here's my favorite LTAD / #Pathway story.... Tennis Australia was doing a detailed, national, sport review to try and figure out why their participation levels were falling. They commissioned one of the big management groups to do the review - and it was exhaustive, detailed and took the best part of a year. I was asked to contribute as an industry "expert". I met two of the researchers towards the end of their review process - and they were NOT sports industry professionals - just very experienced, independent researchers - and I asked them "What do you think the problem is?" One of them said, "The PATHWAY model". I asked why he said that. He replied - and this is GOLD for ALL sports: "We think the Pathway model is killing the sport because when we do interviews, focus groups and surveys, it's clear that players, coaches, parents and everyone else all believe that as soon as they pick up a racket, every kid is on the pathway to being Roger Federer". He continued. "It just doesn't make sense. It's like making every kindergarten child hold a crayon in a very specific way and making them draw straight lines so that WHEN they become a brain surgeon they've developed the right skills to hold a scalpel". And then - his final comment....."We don't understand - to extend the analogy - why you don't just let kids hold the crayon anyway they want to and let them draw anything they choose like rainbows and horses and bunnies. Then the ones who decide they love drawing will keep doing it and those who don't wont". My friends - that story is pretty much where we are. When they love what they do, they will do what they love. It's time for a different approach to sport. newsportfuture.com/sport-pathway/











