Category: Games based learning

cricket games-based learning

Performance development is not just for “performance” athletes – podcast with Mark Bennett & Stuart Armstrong

Fascinating podcast from Stuart Armstrong with Mark Bennett MBE, founder of PDS (Performance Development Systems) .

https://twitter.com/stu_arm/status/915441409053904896

Lots of take-aways for coaches from this, and their earlier podcast, not least the definition of “performance” as a behaviour or “state of being”, rather than a standard. For a coach working mostly with “participation” or “community” players, that means I could help them to develop appropriate performance behaviours to carry them onwards through their future careers, sporting or otherwise.

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20 October, 2017
Making sense of games with Principles of Play

I have posted previously on my conversion to games-based learning, and on the challenges of designing games that are both “representative” (of the real game, and that therefore require the players to develop transferable cricket skills) but at the same time not so constrained and artificial as to no longer be fun to play (the “game” element is important, because we want the players to come back to it again and again). (more…)

26 September, 2017
“Running two” – a modified fielding practice that also develops batting stroke placement and decision making.

Back in the summer, one of the teams I coached was having problems picking up singles and twos – their innings progressed by a succession of big hits and run outs – so we developed a game to practice shot placement and decision making.

I called it “run 1, run 2”, because that is what I kept calling out to the batsmen, but you might come up with a better name!

Try it, though – we found that the results were encouraging, and, as with many games, the tactical challenges were as interesting as the technical.

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26 September, 2017

Category: Games based learning

Performance development is not just for “performance” athletes – podcast with Mark Bennett & Stuart Armstrong

Making sense of games with Principles of Play

“Running two” – a modified fielding practice that also develops batting stroke placement and decision making.