Delivering the Right Message: Coaching with Timing, Patience & Clarity
Learn how effective coaching relies on timing, emotional intelligence, and the five-ball model for building player self-awareness and confidence.
Key Points
- Eduardo learned to wait, listen, and deliver information at the right moment—not just when the student asks, but when it’s effective.
- Coaches must learn to tailor their communication to each student’s personality and emotional state—especially under pressure.
- A coach’s role isn’t just technical—it’s about timing, clarity, and emotional intelligence.
Final advice: coaching should be calm, gradual, and strategic—just a few key tips at a time, followed by review in the next session.
- Patience is essential in coaching: sharing too much information too fast can overwhelm the student and come across as arrogance.
- He developed the five-ball model to help both coach and student build self-awareness through simple statistics: how many balls go left, right, center; how many are topped, fat, clean, etc.
- This method helps coaches observe quietly, learn more about the player, and identify patterns before intervening.
- Eduardo uses this model with all his students—including Jon Rahm—to help them better understand themselves and take ownership of their development.
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