Beyond the Drill
Loren AndersonA space for curious thinkers designing adaptive learning and leadership beyond drills, dogma, and easy answers.
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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...
Stop Turning Coaching Ideas Into Commandments
Coaching advice gets dangerous when it stops being advice and starts becoming a commandment.
Never use internal cues. Always use positive language. Never say “try.” Always warm up. Never waste time warming up. Technique doesn’t matter. Tec...
What are the Fundamentals?
There is a sentence I hear from coaches all the time.
Usually it comes after they have listened patiently while I talk about ecological dynamics, constraints-led coaching, representative practice design, perception-action coupling, and all...
Stop Trying to Optimize Every Practice
Sometimes the most important thing practice gives a team is not more learning, but more life.
There is a particular sickness that can infect good coaches.
It usually starts with the best intentions.
We learn more. We read more. We discov...
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