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
🎯 Take-home message from Prof. Dave Collins, Professorial Fellow in Human Performance Science at The University of Edinburgh, shared during the Aspetar World Conference. @DCGreyMattersUK #Aspetarcon25
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Pleased to offer a second keynote at this prestigious conference. Thanks to Paul and Marco for the opportunity
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Very pleased to be speaking at the ASPETAR International Conference. Staying in this rather tall hotel…The Torch. Complete with “understated” Conference advert!
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Or see talent AS character but see other aspects as gifts. Hence use of the term Gifted and Talented Education or GATE. In our work talent is character and more. Just that the emphasis on identification has stressed G more that T
Stop searching for talent. Start building character. High talent with low character destroys teams. High character with developing talent builds champions. Character always beats talent in the long run. #waynegoldsmith #charactermatters
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Lunch with an old friend. And the best PD I ever worked with!!
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Such an excellent overview. And so relevant to coaching! Knowing when AND WHEN NOT a principle applies is the difference between expertise and dogma. Coaches and coach educators please read. #itdepends
The science of learning isn't about prescriptions, it's about probabilities. And this is where knowing the boundary conditions of any principle matters so much. Knowing when not to use it can be as important as knowing when to. This is my problem with every lesson starting with
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One of our recent articles (with Philippe Mueller and co) published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living just reached a new impact milestone. Here is the link if you would like to read our study:
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Latest open access paper on mental skills development in youth sports. Thanks to Philippe et al.
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Absolutely! Please note that this extends to how you caoch each individual and why. No one size fits all!!
Stop trying to force athletes into your models. Start adapting your methods to help them become the best they can be. The worst coaching mistake? Making everyone the same. The best coaching breakthrough? Helping each athlete discover what makes them uniquely extraordinary.
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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
https://t.co/qgLjqdPkHd
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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 👇 https://t.co/FCXD8vTLDt
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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 David’s 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 bandwidth—rather than a single razor-thin target. Within that range, athletes can still move effectively, sustainably, and safely without always hitting the singular “most efficient” form.
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An ongoing discussion perhaps. But I call the “natural” 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
https://t.co/mlSjJLT0Un
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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. 🙂
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They are also exactly how we define and measure talent!!
Talent—the way most people define it—rarely 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 I’ll agree with that. Posts often read as evangelical! Don’t understand. It offers a good deal. But it isn’t THE TOTAL ANSWER
@DCGreyMattersUK @JonMackey14 The contrast is probably just tone. All point toward the same issue of ED/CLA positioning itself as exposing ‘bad coaching,’ 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 we’re not suggesting EcoD = good coaching and everything else is bad? For the record, I’ve 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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