coaching by manipulation of the training environment
Do you need to perceive an affordance (see an opportunity) before you can act? Or does the opportunity only exist if you can do something with it?
These thoughts have been provoked by an interesting thought experiment from Harigovind S — can we define a “hierarchy of tasks” for batting?
(more…)We finished our (half-) term programme with an under11 group at the weekend, with a session of game-like scenarios.
Perhaps a stretch for some of them, but after working with most of the group since last October I wanted to help them put into context some of the skills & techniques we have covered.
(more…)Over the Easter holidays I coached on a couple of holiday camps. Good fun, but quite hard work.
For coaches and players.
Six hour days are long, not only for the younger groups. How often does a 16 year old get to play cricket all day? With the proliferation of short-form (not a bad thing, of itself) even a 40-over game is the exception. Yet the coaches are charged with engaging the players for a similar length of time, or longer.
I wonder if we could develop a narrative to run through the day? Perhaps by linking to a day’s match play. And putting the skills we coach into context.
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The Teesra 