Diederick Kruger
@krugerd
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Lead Male Physical Performance Coach Cricket Tasmania and Hobart Hurricanes
Hobart, Tasmania
Joined August 2009
🌟 Leading Without Burning Out 📩 Late-night emails with an expectation to respond by 8 AM. 🕰️ Schedules dictated by a figurehead, not by logic or efficiency. 🏅 The "24/7 mentality" worn as a badge of honour. 🚨 This isn’t just dedication—it’s dysfunction. Great leaders know
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👥 The Untapped Support Network Athletes often have a team of people to support them. But what about the coaches and practitioners? The truth is, it’s okay to ask for help. Surrounding yourself with the right people—mentors, coaches, or peers—can make all the difference. Who’s
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The ideal form of work feels like play, but still accomplishes something useful and valuable. Joyful for you. Helpful to others.
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🤔 What’s Tied to Your Identity? For many professionals in sport, their identity becomes wrapped up in “the badge.” It’s where pride and purpose come from—but what happens when that badge no longer feels fulfilling? Exploring who you are beyond the job title is the key to
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After today's announcement, the Boy from Snug, our man Beau Webster has been announced as part of the Australia 'A' Squad for two matches against India 'A' at the end of October and start of November.
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It's remarkable how often the real problem is not what happened, but how it was communicated.
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Practitioner Workshops - Starting on 4th June 2024 🚀 This is the launch of a new format of workshops aimed at providing solutions to the common challenges practitioners and coaches are experiencing - yet most feel isolated and alone with their struggles. This first workshop is
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@chrisgill_UK 🔗 Click to LISTEN NOW: 🎧Available on iTunes: https://t.co/s5jJEGHgIA 🎧Available on Website: https://t.co/YJgC7pLV23 🎧Available on Spotify:
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Podcast · Richard Husseiny · This podcast aims to carve out the non-technical specific skills required to thrive and activate the untapped potential within the men and women who serve in the support...
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📍When did you last share who you truly are and what you're experiencing? 📍Do any of your colleagues know you outside of sport? 📍Do you truly know your colleagues? Who are they as a person? What do they love to do outside of work? 🚩Performance sport is spiritually starving.
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Some of our best moments with the ball this season 🔥 Which was your favourite wicket, Hurricanes fans?
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The "Myths of Normal" of high-performance sports practitioners. Todays Myth: 🗣"I feel as a lead I'm the most "experienced" and "need" to know all the answers." 🙋🏻♂️Cause - Fear sits at the core of this myth (fear of not being good enough, needing to prove impact, fear of losing
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Stay? Go? Exit the industry? Go it alone? It is a tough choice. This simple framework can help to simplify the decision and help you zoom in on what really matters to you. https://t.co/r6r2GXFpiC Give it a share if you feel it can help someone you know 🙏
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Beyond the blank slate: routes to learning new coordination patterns depend on the intrinsic dynamics of the learner—experimental evidence and theoretical model https://t.co/T5KHojmldv Great article on learning and unlearning
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Using an approach that combines experimental studies of bimanual movements to visual stimuli and theoretical modeling, the present paper develops a dynamical...
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🎉WIN free mentorship🎉 To mark the expansion of collabroate sports S&C group mentorship to a second cohort for anyone based on or close to Australian time zones, myself and @SpencerGoggin are giving away 1 free spot on the programme! We meet 1x month over a 6month mentorship
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Monday nights #Aurora over @PureQueenstown lake Wakatipu and Cecil peak. Absolutely incredible scenes. #NightPhotography #SonyAlpha #NewZealand #southernlights
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Coaches and support staff. Take your blinkers off and start asking the right questions. ❌‘What do I want to do next?’ ✅ ‘What do I want for my life?’ https://t.co/lWhXlhWYeV
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The mistakes that are the hardest to deal with, as an athlete or coach, are the ones that you know you wouldn’t have made if you have worked just a bit harder or more consistently.
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Every decision a HP manager or coach makes, where the principles and order of consequences are not considered, will eventually erode the value that is supposedly being upheld/lived at the organization. Virtue signal vs Winning? #dontmovethegoalpost #consistency
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