Not many answers…but trying to ask better questions
There is an ongoing, sometimes rancorous, debate in the coaching world as to the relative merits of “instruction” and “discovery” learning. From, on one side, those who want to line players up behind cones, and have them take turns to replicate skills demonstrated by their coach. Or those who set up games and leave the …
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Rob Gray’s How We Learn to Move is sure to become the go-to resource for any coach interested in the Ecological Dynamics approach to skill acquisition. The book is sub-titled “A revolution in the way we coach & practice sports skills”, and this is no exaggeration. A quite brilliant, inspirational read, for anyone who has …
I posted a couple of pieces last week about the process of coaching — how coaching is, perhaps, a bit like gardening. But I didn’t consider the “product” of sports coaching — for all of the tilling and watering (and weeding), what actually comes out the other end? Or what it is that coaches actually …
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