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!
Continue reading “The Teesra Turns Tutor — All Stars Cricket Activator training”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.
Continue reading “Game sense — more than just “common sense”?”I have just finished reading “The Constraints-Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching & Practice Design”, by Renshaw, Davids, Newcombe & Roberts.
A really interesting read, as it attempts to make sense of CLA for practicing coaches. Taking the concepts beyond the realm of sports science ‘pracademics’ and showing how they can be applied on the practice ground by coaches without a Sports Science degree.
And this title is only the first in a promised series looking at the application of CLA to coaching in a range of sports.
Although, if I was to be critical of anything, perhaps describing the title as “…a vital pedagogical resource for students and practising sports coaches, physical education teachers and sport scientists alike” maybe misses the point.
This is certainly not “An Idiot’s Guide to CLA”, but “The Constraints-Led Approach…” is the “how to…” manual that coaches (should) have been clamouring for!
Continue reading “The Constraints-Led Approach…what is it, really?”
