🚀 Super Performer Overview

Super Performer is the flagship framework I use to track, guide, and accelerate long-term athlete development.

It’s the result of years of coaching experience, 30,000+ words of design thinking, and over 120,000 words of support materials.

It’s more than a spreadsheet. It’s a mindset, a map, and a method. This handout gives you a two-page intro to how it works.

📈 The 3 Phases of Growth

Phase 1 – Early Love (Finding the Way):
Building the base, discovering joy, and forming foundational habits.

Phase 2 – Seeing Possibilities (Knowing the Way):
Beginning to shape identity, build consistency, and expand capability.

Phase 3 – Surpassing Worlds (Creating a New Way):
Entering the Super Performer zone, developing mastery, and influencing others.

🎯 The Coaching Relationship Evolves

The Super Performer tool tracks how my role as coach evolves alongside the athlete’s growth:

Guiding & Caretaking → Coaching → Teaching → Mentoring → Sponsoring → Awakening

It’s not just about techniques—it’s about helping someone become who they’re meant to be in the world of sport and beyond.

🧠Performance Pillars

Development isn’t linear, but these seven categories shape our work across every phase:

• How to Start – building routines and confidence

• How to Think – shifting mindsets and framing effort

• How to Communicate – sharing clearly with self, coach, and      others

• How to Learn – becoming reflective and coachable

• How to Train – knowing the why behind the reps

• How to Compete – showing up under pressure

• How to Exist as a Champion – living out your values with humility      and presence

🔁 Capability Cycles and Development Stages

Athletes develop through a mix of technical, tactical, physical, psychological and philosophical phases.

Super Performer breaks this down using skill acquisition science and practical experience:

Unconscious Incompetence → Conscious Incompetence → Conscious Competence → Unconscious Competence

Across 10 development stages and 25 capabilities, I track where athletes are and how close they are to owning a skill in performance conditions.

🔍 Where This Comes From

Super Performer is the clearest expression of everything I’ve learned across 30+ years of freestyle coaching.

It’s not some fixed system carved in stone—it’s alive, evolving, and built from the coaching trenches.

For the first time, I’ve been able to lay out—in full detail—the characteristics, stages, and strategies that define what it means to become the ultimate performer.

Is anyone there yet? No. And that’s exactly how it should be. Together, we’re still reaching forward—finding new ways to move, connect, and shape water like never before.

This framework isn’t just for top-level athletes. Anyone can open it, explore it, and start moving themselves.

Some athletes will copy it into a shared Google Sheet and personalise it. Others might look at it and think: “What the heck is this?”—and that’s OK too.

The point is: it gives us something to work from. A way to talk about the journey, track growth, and unlock what’s possible.

💬 Final Word

Super Performer is the system behind the scenes. It keeps our coaching grounded and athlete-focused.

As you move through camps, rosters, and competitions, know this: your progress is being tracked, supported, and nudged forward.

Whether you’re just finding your love for the sport, rising through the ranks, or performing at the top—this tool is there, evolving with you.

Coach Jacko
🚀📈👊 Adapt, Grow – Own It