Hello! Welcome to Flewy’s Coaching & Consulting! Thank you so much for being here and joining me on this journey.

I am by no means an award winning author so bare with me with these blogs. I will be using it as a space to share my thoughts on coaching as a player, a fan, and through coaching lens. As a coach I am always learning and love the challenge of problem solving. Athletes are all full of questions and as coaches we cannot always have the answer immediately. I will always do my best to find the best answer and deliver back with how my athletes best take in that information.

A little bit more about me and what drives me, that didn’t make the cut through out the pages of the website.

– John Flew ‘Flewy’

– Stay at home Dad to Stevie and Leo, House Husband to Tia

– Fan of all sport, particularly Cricket, Rugby Union & League.

– More than a decade experience in community sports administration.

– Current Assistant Coach for Sunshine Coast scorchers Female Program.

– When I am not coaching or playing, i am discovering Moreton Bay’s best playgrounds, at the beach or camping with my family.

My Coaching philosophy is a relatively simple one;

‘Creating foundations for success on and off the field. Developing the next generation of athlete.’

What exactly does that mean? Fundamental skill acquisition is the most important part of developing any athlete and in an age of business deals and early specialisation in sport, accelerated learning is often pushed without the cornerstones and foundations being built for longterm success. Every sport and outside factors are fighting for peoples participation dollar, eyeballs and to find the next big thing. As most people are aware, long term success in any discipline rarely rewards flashy and short lived excitement.

Developing athletes isn’t only about on field expectations but providing support in off field life as well. Most people these days are concerned about the youth and direction they are heading. In my experience, the only ones we need worry about are the ones not engaged in sport through their teenage years and in doing so missing a critical part of maturing, an outside voice that is respected and teachers discipline, a coach.

I live by the words of John Wooden from UCLA Basketball ‘A good coach can change a game, a great coach can change a life!’ Most people can remember every coach they have ever had through their sporting career no matter where they ended up. They are often lumped into two groups, the good ones and the bad ones but generally, everyone has had the opportunity to meet a great one. 

My great coach was Eric Droste, my basketball coach from u10s-u16s. I would probably credit him with why I took up my first coaching role at 15, taking on an u10 basketball team through my club. I don’t remember a time at training we ever discussed winning or losing. Through Eric’s ability to build trust in him, each other and ourselves, we just knew we would win. We backed our skills that we had spent hours training for and the results took care of themselves. it was never about the best players had to be on the court all the time, as a unit we knew that every individual could do a role and not let each other down.  

So here is to Eric and here is to all of you reading this and welcome on our journey. I look forward to being able to assist you, your team, or your club/organisation in some way.