Beyond the Drill
Loren AndersonA space for curious thinkers designing adaptive learning and leadership beyond drills, dogma, and easy answers.
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Why Do Some Athletes Get Better Faster?
There are few things more tempting for a coach than watching an athlete pick something up quickly and calling it talent. It feels clean. It feels obvious. One player walks into the gym and seems to understand the game before we have explain...
The Coach, the Computer, and the Very Old Dream of Controlled Minds
In my last article, I wrote about how coach-controlled, isolated technique training did not appear out of nowhere. It belongs to a much older history of adults trying to organize bodies: military drill, classrooms, factories, physical educa...
The Coach, the Classroom, and the Very Old Dream of Controlled Bodies
There is a certain kind of practice that feels instantly familiar to anyone who has spent time in team sports. Athletes stand in lines. One ball moves. One athlete performs. A coach watches closely, corrects loudly, and decides whether the...
Please the Coach or Solve the Game?
One of the more uncomfortable questions I ask myself often is this: are we spending more practice time teaching players to solve the game, or teaching them to please the coach?
I do not think most coaches intend to create coach-pleasers. I...
Stop Preaching. Start Coaching.
For a long time, I think I needed other coaches to believe what I believed.
I don’t know if I would have admitted that at the time. I probably would have dressed it up in better language. I would have said I was trying to share better info...
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