Category: Training/Coaching Articles

NEW TERMS Meta Cognition – knowing how you know what you know Player’s actions are often driven by situation specific intentions but they are determined by a player’s deep declarative and procedural understanding of what, how and why to act on given game information which challenges the view that coupling a player’s perception and action...

NEW TERMS Self Organisation – refers to how a player organises their movements and actions within a disorgainised situation, with this ability enhanced with increasing exposures to the same or similar scenarios Implicit Coupling – unguided perception/action coupling Heuristic Decision Making – what has worked before Fast Thought – game decisions and actions made with...

NEW TERMS Actions for the Game – reacting unconsciously to game information through your actions Implicit Learning – unguided learning Knowledge of the Task – what tactical, technical an physical tasks make up the action required for specific parts of the game Decision making is initiated by the perception of the game Rules create context...

NEW TERMS Bottom Up Process – where you’ve already been Common Frame of Reference – refers to a team game model, shared common language etc Self Organisation – is the ability to create order out of the randomness of team sports via tactical and technical movement strategies No Thought – are game decisions and actions...

NEW TERMS Top Down Process – where you’re aiming to go Knowledge in the Game – knowledge based on past experiences and expectations combined with information in that game moment There are 3 distinct views that offer different interpretations of the role of cognitive mechanisms within a player’s decision making process and they center on...

As mentioned in the introduction to this book-long post series, today is part 1 of about 18 looking at decision making within games, today looking at time. NEW TERMS Declarative Knowledge of the Game – facts or information of the game in general stored in long term memory Perception and Action – refers reacting the...

With 2022 pre-season just around the corner, we’re continuing on with the “Next Level Coaching” theme in a mammoth series of posts based off this study, titled “What Cognitive Mechanism, When, Where and Why? Exploring the Decision Making of Amateur and Elite Rugby Union Players During Competitive Matches.” It’s a huge piece on it’s own...

Earlier in the week I posted about the forgetting curve and how you should review the previous day’s content as soon as possible, to scaffold learning for long term retention. Retrieval practice is one of the best ways to do this and here are some noted I gathered from education expert Doug Lemov on the...

I would read as much content teaching/learning as I do anything because as a coach you’re essentially a teacher, just not in an actual classroom. Instead of questions that need to be answered in words or numbers, football problems need to be solved with a mix of technical, physical and tactical solutions but in an...

The 2021/22 NBA season stared last week and Stephen Curry was up to his usual tricks following a down game by his own admission in which he mucked around and still got a triple double in a win against the Lakers, with a perfect 10 for 10 and 25 points in the first quarter alone...