Last week I attended Playing by the Rules: Using the CLA to your Advantage, a fascinating event hosted by Alex Lascu and Alex Sarama.
Part workshop, part therapy session, covering a range of issues with adopting a constraints-led approach (CLA) in coaching.
The conversation in the room was very interesting, but I wonder if some of the language was overly complicated.
Perhaps we need a new way of talking about the CLA?
(more…)Jimmy Anderson’s announcement of his retirement from Test cricket was greeted with a suggestion that he should immediately be taken on as a coach-mentor with the England Test team.
Earlier in the year, Rob Key stated that he believes Andrew Flintoff could be the next Head Coach of England. And Flintoff will be Head Coach for the Northern Superchargers in the Hundred this summer.
Anderson and Flintoff are both great cricketers.
But what does the suggestion that both could be fast-tracked into senior coaching positions say about the standing of professional coaches in English cricket?
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We have had some positive feedback on one of our Saturday courses this term. Whilst it is gratifying to be told that we are doing something right, it is also slightly worrying as to what might have been going on previously.
As far as I can tell, we have been doing nothing exceptional with the group — some skills, plenty of games, not too much standing around — but we are being told that this is a huge improvement on earlier in the year.
What has been going on?
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