Dave Collins
@DCGreyMattersUK
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Dave Collins of Grey Matters Performance Limited. Hobbies include Beer and Curry Consuming, SCUBA Diving and Performance Psychologising
Joined June 2014
It certainly is!! Well worth the purchase.
This is a superb book - thoroughly recommended for anyone involved in supporting the learning of others. @P_A_Kirschner @C_Hendrick .
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Papers which entirely confuse the idea of optimally as a range of key elements rather than a prescriptive set of requirements. I refer you back to the original post by Kyle.
@DCGreyMattersUK See assorted @MadhurMangalam publications for practical alternatives, and this Pre-print argument for a fundamental shift away from optimality as a framing - perhaps with illustrative models of what can fail rather than templates for development đ.
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Really think this obfuscates more than helps! If you go back to the original post the biomechanics offer an acceptable range within which individual variation can occur. But is the distinction useful or even new! IME coaches generally acknowledge need for such variation.
@DCGreyMattersUK Dave surely there is a difference between technique and biomechanics. In that technique can be individual based on performer constraints but biomechanics non-negotiables. Even in Davidâs et al book there are biomechanics.
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A useful perspective. There CANNOT be a single optimum movement pattern BUT THERE IS ALMOST ALWAYS an optimum template which individuals are best targeting. I have yet to meet a coach who insists on a single model but often encounter sensible moves toward a mechanical model.
Through a practical lens, mechanical efficiency is probably best understood as a bandwidthârather than a single razor-thin target. Within that range, athletes can still move effectively, sustainably, and safely without always hitting the singular âmost efficientâ form.
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An ongoing discussion perhaps. But I call the ânaturalâ stuff gifts. Talent is the attitude, work ethic, drive, etc. hence we discriminate between gifted and talented, assessing and developing the latter in partnership with coaches, parents, schools and sports.
Your "talented" kid learns success should be easy. Your "untalented" kid learns success requires effort. Guess who becomes the champion? #TalentMyth #YouthSports #Mindset .
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We fight that as well mate. IMO this should be a stance led by Government. At present there some rather extreme evangelistic positions taken by small but vociferous groups. Sending a strong consistent and evidence backed message would be great.
@DCGreyMattersUK Thanks Dave. Agree with you-experienced and educated people like you know this. Unfortunately I deal mostly with coaches and parents of kids 12 and under who are still being fed the bullsh&$ about the importance of junior rep teams, prizing early development etc. Thanks mate. đ.
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They are also exactly how we define and measure talent!!.
Talentâthe way most people define itârarely makes it to the top five championship qualities. Here's what elite coaches actually look for: coachability, work ethic, emotional resilience, love of learning, consistency. These aren't magical gifts. These are choices.
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Mate Iâll agree with that. Posts often read as evangelical! Donât understand. It offers a good deal. But it isnât THE TOTAL ANSWER.
@DCGreyMattersUK @JonMackey14 The contrast is probably just tone. All point toward the same issue of ED/CLA positioning itself as exposing âbad coaching,â but often sidesteps falsifiable scrutiny.
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Amen to that. Choice of approach is a key coaching skill. Unthinking adherence to any approach is inevitably sub optimum.
@kyledupic @ConvoswColeman Surely weâre not suggesting EcoD = good coaching and everything else is bad? . For the record, Iâve seen some god awful coaching from folks purporting to be EcoD specialists.
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Great post. But please all recognise and pursue the importance of understanding. Not always an outcome of discovery learning!!.
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Lovely place. I was born there!!.
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One faces forward. The other faces backwards! Freudian slip?.
@JonMackey14 Thatâs a direct copy from the book đ good to know.
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GM working to develop a school wide system using the Psychological Characteristics of Developing Excellence. Great to work with colleagues in Montreux
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Of course. Just like a heliocentric system existed before Copernicus!:) BUTâŠit depends (!) on how you define it. And the definition should usually include delineations. Where it does and doesnât work so well. And the lack of these essentials leads to much of the fruitless debate.
@OptimalFitLK But it brings me back to the original point⊠can ecological dynamics exist with Gibson?.
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Agreed. But also allow for the psychsocial interactions as well. See
research.ed.ac.uk
Aim to design your session structure and logistics for targeted physiological/morphological adaptation. Be cognisant of first principles and plan accordingly.
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Great loss. A modest genius. A rare but laudable characteristic. The US version of Flanders and Swan! Try some of his offerings on YouTube. Tom Lehrer obituary: devilish musical satirist.
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They are not constrained!!:).
it's relentless.
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As ever great expertise. But surely they should have consulted him in advance?! Take your time â penalty expert on how Lionesses can dominate shoot-out.
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