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 …
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When T20 goes wrong…
Very interesting article from Ian Chappell over the weekend. “When bowlers are reduced to deliberately bowling wide and wickets come off batters’ errors, you know the balance isn’t right.” What, though, could be done?
What are we doing when we coach? — What is coaching? (3)
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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