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2023 Look Ahead / Alcohol & Exercise / Early Specialisation Discussion / Damar Hamlin

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Specialization Is More Effective Than Diversification

Bicca: The overwhelming evidence on this question is that early specialization from a younger age with specialist coaches is less likely to produce an elite athlete than diversification and the delayed specialization. He says it's not impossible that some of these athletes have specialized very young but I suspect most of them probably played multiple sports until the age of 14, 15 then got incredibly tall and basketball starts to draw them towards it. If you're playing the odds parents coaches yeah get kids to do as much as possible for as long as possible they develop a different skill set less likely to be injured and more likely to succeed. You know we covered specialization and how to develop a champion in our very first season five amazing

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