Context is Key with Keith Davids (Centre of Sport & Exercise Science)
The Coaches Network Podcast
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Is Early Specialization a Good Thing?
Early specialization is not a good thing, and there's lots of data to suggest that. We don't live in an environment where we can say at the age of four, this child is better than that child,. At ix, seven, eight, nine, 21, you know, that sort of thing later on. In life, because there are also edles things in the child's life tat act as contexts ther actually shape the development of that person. So it's a very risky thing. Its a sort of an take part in that approach. And i guess i pretty much a of the view that. Am, early specialization isnot a good thing," he says.
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