Coach education
Workshops, courses and mentoring for coaches, PE teachers and clubs — built around practice design rather than content delivery.
Smart Training · Smart Coach
Hai Sinay
Coach Educator · Founder & Developer of Multi Skills · CEO, NIKA Sport & Community
An Israeli coach educator working at the intersection of sports pedagogy, motor learning, skill acquisition and cognitive development, with a focus on children, youth and young athletes.
The emphasis
Not only what the athlete needs to learn — how the coach designs the learning
Most coach development stops at content: the drill, the skill, the session plan. My work starts one step earlier, with the person delivering it — how a coach designs, presents and adapts a learning experience through task design, communication, attention, challenge and variability.
That shift is what makes a session transfer. A child who repeats a movement in a fixed setting can perform it in that setting. A child who meets the same problem under changing constraints learns to read a situation and solve it — which is what the game, the playground and the classroom actually ask for.
The Multi Skills methodology
An evidence-informed methodology for coaching children and young athletes, developed and taught since 2015.
NIKA Sport & Community
A non-profit I lead as CEO, running sport and movement programmes for children across Israel, including areas with little access to either.
The method
Multi Skills — Wise Sports Training Method
An evidence-informed methodology for coaching children and young athletes: building broad movement, cognitive and adaptive capabilities that can progressively support sport-specific development. Multi Skills connects what athletes need to develop with how practice is designed and delivered.
The axis runs from general to progressively sport-specific, across movement, cognition, decision-making, adaptability and creativity. It is deliberately not a curriculum of drills — the same principles are applied differently in a first-grade PE lesson, a football academy and an elite youth squad, because the constraints differ.
The coach is a designer of learning environments.
The single idea the whole method rests on
- Constraints-led approach
- Task, individual & environmental constraints
- Affordances
- Representative practice
- Repetition without repetition
- Differential learning
- Movement variability & transfer
- Perception–decision–action
- Scanning & anticipation
- Attention & information
How the work moves
From knowledge to practice
Each stage exists because the one before it is not enough on its own. Research that never reaches task design stays on a slide; task design that never reaches a real programme stays in a workshop.
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Research-informed principles
Motor learning, skill acquisition and cognitive development — read critically, not quoted.
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Task design & sports pedagogy
Turning a principle into a task a coach can actually run on a Tuesday afternoon.
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Programmes, coaches & systems
Curricula, coach development tracks and the structures that keep them alive.
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Real-world implementation
In clubs, schools and community programmes — then reviewed against what happened.
How a workshop is framed
Every theme starts from a question, not a topic
A topic invites a lecture. A question invites coaches to look at their own session and find that the answer is not obvious. These two run through most of the work:
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What information does the player need to perceive in order to make a better decision?
Leads into scanning, attention, and the difference between telling a player what to do and letting them see it.
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What is the expected learning outcome, and what environment is most likely to invite it?
Leads into constraints: what to change in the space, the rules or the task so the behaviour appears on its own.
Working together
Three formats, one body of work
Coach development workshops
Hands-on sessions for coaching staff — on the pitch or in the hall, with the coaches doing the designing, not watching slides.
Keynotes & conference sessions
For federations, academic programmes and conferences — the pedagogy argument, with live movement experiments the room takes part in.
Consulting for organisations
Building or reviewing a youth development framework, a coach education track, or a movement curriculum for a school network.
The levers a coach actually has
- Space
- Numbers
- Rules
- Direction
- Pressure
- Task goals
Background
Where the work is taught, applied and cited
140
Academic hours
The flagship certification course for coaches of children, taught at Campus Siim, the sports centre at Tel Aviv University.
~10k
Children a year
Reached by NIKA Sport & Community programmes, including the 20-40-30 project for children from disadvantaged areas.
2015
Multi Skills founded
Developed since then through courses, school programmes and clubs; programmes are approved by Israel's Ministry of Education.
B.Ed · MBA
Education
B.Ed in physical education and movement, early-childhood specialisation (graduated with distinction); MBA with a sport-management specialisation.
Invited to speak before the Knesset Sports Committee on children's physical activity. Work and commentary covered by Kan 11, Calcalist, mako and Israel Hayom.
Get in touch
Workshops, keynotes and collaborations
Working in English with clubs, federations, schools and academic programmes outside Israel — remotely or on site. Tell me who the coaches are and what you want them to be able to do differently, and I will tell you whether I am the right person for it.
Multi Skills · Wise Sports Training Method · Israel — the full site is in Hebrew at multiskills.co.il
Let’s talk
Tell me who the coaches are and what you want them to be able to do differently.