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Dr Phil Kearney on maximising skills acquisition, coaching and performance

The Mike Quirke Podcast

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Coaching at the Youth Level

How well a player performs in one session tells us very little about how much they're learning. If I want to know how much that you've learned, how good you are, I don't judge it on the basis of free throw 7, 8, 9, 10. That's what tells me whether you've learned or not. And so this is what we need to be thinking about in terms of actually judging the effectiveness of our coaching. We assess learning by what you bring back to the next session. So start your session with a game or a game formed. A simplified game form will reveal whether that particular issue, maybe it's players aren't making forward runs appropriately.

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