The Teesra

Author: Andrew Beaven

  • When you meet a man who is not a poet…

    quoted in “Zen & Zen Classics – Selections from RH Blyth” by Frederick Franck

    But why not try to teach your man who is not a poet about your poetry?

    He still might not understand your poem, but he might understand you.

  • The Teesra Turns Tutor — All Stars Cricket Activator training

    The Teesra Turns Tutor — All Stars Cricket Activator training

    A new experience for me, this year — delivering training for All Stars Cricket Activators.

    Thanks to Claire, my “co-tutor” (is that a word?) for the day. Great engagement from the Activators.

    Hope they enjoyed the morning as much as I did!

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  • Game sense — more than just “common sense”?

    I like games; I enjoy modifying games; I do believe in the power of cricket games based learning to develop cricketers who are technically competent, tactically wise and mentally prepared.

    But in truth, I do still struggle to understand the many different flavours of games-based coaching.

    So I was very interested to listen to a recent podcast* from Risto Marttinen & Stephen Harvey with Shane Pill, of Flinders University, in which Dr Pill explained some of the key features of the Games Sense Approach (GSA) to coaching, and how it differs from Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and the Tactical Games Approach.

    I won’t go into a detailed review of their conversation — listen to the podcast! — but there are a few points that have started to make (more) sense of the various approaches to games-based coaching, for me.

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