Is learning facts the same process as developing a new skill?
If it is, then (perhaps) academic pedagogical principles transfer to sports coaching.
But if skill development is a different type of “learning”, does the coach need other techniques?
Now, I currently have little to base this feeling beyond my own experience of learning. And I have to admit that my own learning might well have been sub-optimal!
But learning facts (school, university) always felt very different to developing a new (sport) skill.
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