Not many answers…but trying to ask better questions
I have written previously about my conversion to games-based practice, but also about the challenges I have encountered when trying to design appropriate games. So when I saw that Ian Renshaw, co-author of “the best book on non-linear pedagogy I have ever read”, and father (and coach) of Aussie opener Matt, was speaking at the …
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Interesting conversation with a parent after one of my sessions last week. We had been working on hitting front foot drives, and had finished with a game, with bobble feeds from the coach – making it “too easy” for the players to hit the ball. As I explained to the parent, just about the only …
I have been coaching with the current ECB Coaches’ toolkit for nearly three years, now, since I was introduced to the components on the Coaching Children CPD workshops back in 2014. I had a relatively quiet August – just 5 days’ active coaching over the last month – so I have had quite a bit …
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