Dr Phil Kearney on maximising skills acquisition, coaching and performance
The Mike Quirke Podcast
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Skill Isn't a Technique, It's a Skill
Coaching is about designing the appropriate problem for a player to solve. Sometimes those are simple problems, but at inter-county level you're dealing with much more complex problems. How do you manage to set a challenge that's appropriate to everybody? And then this is where if you were the school's coach or the club coach and the volunteer coach, yours is the hardest job. You know what? I reckon you make one mistake and I might just be able to pimp you to that one. So again, it's a challenge. But this is the essence of good coaching, it's setting the appropriate level of challenge.
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