The Teesra

Category: cricket

  • It ain’t what you say, it’s what gets understood.  Or “coaching lessons from three year olds”

    Fascinating little video clip from @CoachLisle, which beautifully illustrates the perils of (mis)communication for coaches.

    Top listening skills from the player, great learning opportunity for the coach!

    There is a lot to be said for all coaches spending time young players and beginners – to refine their communication skills, and the identify the core, non-negotiable elements of technical skills.

    If you were teaching a three year old to hit a ball, where would you start?  Grip, stance, back-swing?

    Or “look at the ball, swing the bat back and whack”? (more…)

  • Gentlemen & Players, 2016

    https://twitter.com/theteesra/status/761481565092347904

    As someone who earns his living from coaching the game of cricket, before 1963 I would have been a “Player“, who used a separate changing room, probably ate lunch apart from the Gentlemen, and would have been listed on scorecards as Beaven A. R. (or, indeed, as “Teesra T[he]”), not A.R. Beaven.

    Archaic, in the 21st Century, surely?

    Perhaps – but does the distinction between “Gentlemen” and “Players” still persist in 2016?

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  • How to Introduce Javelin to Young Athletes – from Coaching Young Athletes

    If this works for teaching javelin (and I’m sure it does), perhaps there is something here for bowling?

    I often see young cricketers struggle with “bowling from base” – they miss the all-important rotation from a basically side-on base to front-on release when there is no inherent forward motion – and the step-by-step approach might help to get them through this.

    I’ll have to try this out – perhaps starting from “withdraw & throw”…with a straight arm, of course!