Socio cultural constraints…not something I ever expected to blog about…

Socio-cultural constraints – how a player’s social and cultural background influences learning behaviour…not something I ever expected to blog about. However, translating frantically, if we were to say that the coach really should try to understand where the players come from, then this becomes a little easier to put into practice. Two recent examples: with a …

Beware – too much input!

There have been several interesting conversations recently on the coach’s use of silence – keeping quiet, and allowing the “game to teach the game”, and refraining from constant interruption and instruction. In particular, I enjoyed a post from ImSporticus – The Way of the Silent Coach. An ideal, perhaps, and certainly applicable to matchplay.  I …

“To see ourselves as others see us” or “what do you look like?” Some thoughts on coaching demonstrations.

I took some video footage last week – any thoughts on what this “young” bowler might want to work on? This wasn’t meant to be an exercise in self-analysis, however – rather, I wanted to try out a camera and techniques for filming a bowler in action, and then to generate some footage to practice …