In this section you can find general information relating to the development of skills and coordination of 3 to 10 year olds. It is a good place to begin your reading and watching before moving onto the more specific skills sections.

This section covers the development of locomotion skills and balance between the ages of 3 and 10 years. You will find information on how play can be used to help young kids acquire different locomotion forms, achieve faster, more efficient and accurate movement. You will also find information on how to move for specific sports and how to encourage kids to move while maintaining balance.

Catching and interception are fundamental skills that relate to many sports. This section deals with how you can facilitate their development through play. It also teaches you how fun activities and modified sporting games can help advance catching and interception skills which in time, develop into sport specific skills.

Throwing and striking are fundamental skills that relate to many sports including tennis, soccer, baseball and cricket. The articles and videos in this section will help you understand the basic development of throwing and striking and how you can design activities and play games that lead to kids becoming more coordinated and adaptable at these skills. It also shows as how these skills become sport specific skills.

Kicking and punting skills are fundamental to many sports including football, rugby and Australian rules football. This section deals with the progression of these skills from basic kicking and punting, to coordinated and adaptable skills that are easily transferable into sport specific skills. The section also contains plenty of modified kids' games that encourage this progression of skills.

In the skill combinations section you can learn how different skills can be combined to form fun activities that build general coordination, adaptability and train attention.

Play sessions with young kids between 3 and 10 years can include a whole variety of activities and modified sporting games that involve different fundamental skills such as throwing, kicking, striking and movement ability. The videos of play sessions you can see in this section develop general coordination and body awareness, adaptability and visual perception skills. Best of all kids love them!

This section consists of articles we strongly advise you read before delving deeper into the specifics. You will find articles that give you background information that will help you understand the overall process of skill acquisition including how purposeful play, fundamental perceptual motor skills, deliberate play and deliberate practice all relate to each other and are important at different stages.

This section provides you with valuable information on what research tells us should be the guiding principles of skill acquisition, the defining capabilities of expert performers and the best way to learn. The articles and accompanying videos in this section deliver what can be complex information in an easy to understand manner, making it easier for you to facilitate successful learning experiences for the children in your life.

Deliberate play and deliberate practise are both important concepts of skill acquisition.  This section helps you understand exactly what they are, their benefits and when they are important in the skill development process. It also provides lots of practical information about how to facilitate deliberate play and deliberate practice that relates to all sports.

This section teaches you how anticipation and pattern recognition skills help kids play sport at a higher level. Skill acquisition research is showing us the importance of these skills to sports performance. The articles and videos contained in this section will help you facilitate play experiences for kids between the ages of 3 and 10 years that lead to the development of anticipation skills and the ability to recognise patterns. You will find information that relates to both general skill development and specific sports.

Tactics and decision making skills are defining capabilities of expert performers.  In this section you will find information on how tactical and decision making skills lead to successful sporting outcomes, how these skills develop and what you can do for kids between the ages of 3 and 10 years to facilitate the emergence of these skills over time.

This section will help you go about designing fun, purposeful play activities in keeping with key skill acquisition principles. It will also give you plenty of examples that relate to fundamental skills and specific sports. You will also find articles that will help you facilitate the right environment and culture to enhance skill learning.

The skill and pressure section will help you understand how pressure, which mostly comes in the from of competition, can affect skill performance. This section will teach you how you can facilitate early skill learning experiences that will lead to pressure resilience in the future.  It will also detail how you can manipulate play and practice to improve skill performance under pressure.

his section teaches how your interactions with kids you can help them develop the ability to self reflect, which is important for skill improvement in the long term. You will also find lots of information on how play activities can be designed to emphasise feedback to kids, which in turn can help them to reflect on their experiences before further play. Both of these aspects are critical in skill acquisition.

This section looks at how the brain changes as kids acquire more efficient and adaptable skills. Understanding these changes will help you be clear and consistent in your approach to the skill learning process in the long term. You will also find valuable information regarding critical periods of brain development and how the play you facilitate - and your interactions in and around this play - can shape brain development.

In the competition section you can hear from coaching experts on all aspects of competition including planning, interacting with athletes before, during and after competition and how coaches should approach competition for different ages.

This section contains the articles that deal with sensory motor development as a whole and provides you with helpful background information.

This section will help you understand of how visual perception continues to develop. You can learn, amongst other things, how to create experiences that enhance kids visual perception development, how visual perception becomes increasingly efficient and sport specific and how visual perception and movement links become stronger.

Body awareness is fundamental to children's ability to learn and improve physical skills. The 3-10 body awareness section deals with how you can help kids improve their understanding of where the body is positioned in increasingly dynamic environments.

Spatial awareness is the ability to accurately perceive oneself and other objects in a given space and vestibular awareness is the ability to perceive head position and body movement through space. Both are of great importance to skill development.  This section covers how you can facilitate experiences for kids that lead to improved spatial and vestibular awareness.

This section consists of articles and activities that are a good place to start when considering the learning of young kids and how you can facilitate learning through play.

The free play section will help you appreciate the benefits of free play.  You can learn how to be a facilitator of free play in subtle ways to help kids develop creativity, problem solving and interests amongst other things.

In the exploration and play section you can learn about kid's in-built urge to learn and explore. You'll also learn how you can facilitate play that encourages exploration of their own abilities, their surroundings and what else life has to offer.

This section will help you appreciate the link between creativity and play. You can learn how to facilitate creative play experiences for kids by enriching their environment and through your interactions.

The environment kids play in has a huge impact on their development. In this section you can learn how to create enriched environments that support psychological and physical development as well as how to change a child's play environment in subtle ways to foster the emergence of new skills.

In the problem solving and play section you can learn how we solve problems, how kid’s problem solving skills emerge and how the play experiences you facilitate and your interactions can influence how kids approach problems through life.

This section helps you understand what is actually happening from a brain development perspective with learning. It will teach you about how the brain changes with learning to achieve more effective and adaptable skills and how this allows the possibility of even further learning.

In the general psychological development section you will find general information about children’s developmental stages from a psychological perspective.

In the psychology social development section you will find articles that help you understand and nurture children’s social development. This section will focus on children’s ability to experience interpersonal relationships that sustain and develop well-being.

In the psychology and emotional development section you will find articles that help you understand and nurture children’s emotional development. This section will focus on children’s internal experiences, including thoughts, feelings and urges.

In the psychology attention and mindfulness section you will find plenty of activities and articles that help you nurture children’s ability to pay attention in the present moment and respond well to difficult internal experiences (such as thoughts, feelings, and urges) that arise. These are vital skills that will positively impact children’s development of well-being in a wide range of ways.

In the psychology behaviour regulation section you will find articles designed to help you nurture children’s ability to regulate behaviour in various situations.

In the psychology resilience section you will find articles that will help you nurture children’s ability to continually apply effort to life endeavours when faced with adversity and setbacks.

In the psychology self-concept section you will find articles that will help you support experiences in children that develop self-views of importance and competence. 

In the psychology brain development section you will find articles that explore children’s development from a brain perspective, particularly focusing on the importance of the sensitive periods of brain development.

This section provides you with general and background information on parenting to help you make a lasting difference on your kid’s lives. This is a good place to start reading and learning on your incredible role as a parent.

The parenting and play section aims to help you understand the wonder of play, your role in their play, how play experiences can be facilitated and manipulated and how play is a vehicle through which you can build your relationship.

The parenting and skills section helps you understand what role you can best play to positively influence your child's skill development between the age of 3 and 10 years.

In the parenting and psychology section you will find a range of articles that will help you understand and nurture your child’s healthy psychological development in many ways.

In the mindful parenting section you will find a series of articles focused on helping you develop parenting skills that will allow you to monitor your own internal experiences during parenting challenges so you can more flexibly respond to your child during these times.

This section helps you understand more about coaching styles. It will also detail how coaches can develop their own consistent style of coaching while also demonstrating the flexibility in their approach required to successfully work with individuals.

The coach athlete relationship is one of the most important aspects in the development of a young athlete.  This section deals with how you can intentionally build coach athlete relationships of trust and respect to help motivate and push your athletes beyond their comfort zone.

This section covers all aspects of coaching programs including laying the foundations for success, culture, structure and group engagement.

The aim of this section is to help coaches develop a greater understanding of their potential role as a coach. Expert coaches have a far greater influence than just on the field or court. They are amongst other things, a mentor, parent educator and a shaper of the personal qualities that pervade their athletes lives well beyond sport.

The coach development section consists of articles and activities designed to help coaches enhance their effectiveness. You will find a wide variety of topics relating specifically to both the physical and psychological skill development of kids.

In the coaching and psychology section you will find a range of articles that will help you understand and nurture children’s healthy psychological skill development in many ways.

In the mindful coaching section you will find a series of articles focused on helping you develop coaching skills. These skills will allow you to monitor your own internal experiences during coaching challenges so you can more flexibly respond to children during these times.

In the 3-10 tennis section all the information, coaching drills and activities have been designed to get kids developing the skills they need to start actually playing and enjoying tennis earlier. The proven modified equipment and low compression balls of the red, orange, green tennis system are used to increase the perceptual and game sense skills of young kids.

The 3 – 10 soccer section has been designed to help young kids develop basic skills in a fun way to enable them to participate in deliberate play activities to further build the perceptual and game sense side of soccer.

This section deals with how exercise, physical activity and sport impacts kid’s social development and interactions.

This section provides covers how exercise affects cognitive function, kids ability to form memory and learn and how exercise impacts kids academic performance in the long term.

In this section you can find practical information from expert nutritionists.  You can learn how certain foods affect brain function and development, how to achieve a healthy balanced diet for kid’s, tried and tested recipes and tips to make the daily food tasks a whole lot easier.

This section covers what you need to know about physical activity levels of kids including how much should they be getting at different ages, what type and how it will affect them long term.