Motor Learning And Fatigue
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy… sorry, wrong story. A while ago (I don’t remember when) someone (I
Tag: Practice
Men’s Olympic Volleyball Rankings – The Leadership Interpretation
According to this article, you can only win in sports, or anywhere else, if you’re ready for chaos. Conveniently, that
Bill Walsh On Setting
NFL coaching great Bill Walsh was known as a ‘genius‘. It turns out that he was such a genius he
Specific What?
Everybody (hopefully) knows that the most important concept in motor learning is specificity. That is, skills and techniques are learnt
The Dan Plan And Consequences
As you know, I keep a bit of an eye on ‘The Dan Plan’, the guy who is trying to
The Dan Plan And Specificity
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book ‘Outliers‘, popularised the concept that to become an expert requires 10,000 hours of deliberate practice
The Specificity of Team Building
Conventional wisdom holds that team building is a vital component of success for any kind of activity in which workers
Why I Don’t Teach ‘Calling’
I hate ‘calling’. I almost never tell my teams to call. In my opinion, calling is one of the biggest
Shifting Paradigms: Practice and Specificity of Conditioning
Continuing the topic of Shifting Paradigms, and returning to my pet subject, Practice, I recently read a blog post (and
Referees, Coaching and Practice
We played a game last night. As games go, it was okay. The standard was quite good at times and
