3 EcoD Practice Design Principles Every Coach Should Know
Jul 3, 2024
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The podcast delves into effective practice design principles for coaches, including engaging athletes through game-based activities, optimizing skill development through affordances, allowing athletes to explore and be creative, and observing spontaneous movement emergence in young athletes.
Effective practice design prioritizes allowing the environment to communicate with athletes, promoting exploration and understanding.
Affordances in practice design enhance skill development by providing opportunities that mimic game scenarios, facilitating learning and performance improvement.
Deep dives
Coaches Allow Environment to Speak in Practice Design
In the podcast episode, it emphasizes the importance of coaches allowing the environment to speak first in practice design. Instead of convoluted activities that require excessive verbal explanations, effective drills allow athletes to explore and exploit the environment. By letting the environment act as a constraint and communicate with the athletes, coaches create activities that are easily understood and offer room for exploration and learning.
Importance of Affordances in Practice Design
The episode discusses the significance of affordances in practice design, highlighting how athletes improve by engaging with designed opportunities that mimic game scenarios. Affordances provide valuable insights for coaches on creating activities that align with game demands and facilitate skill development. By offering numerous opportunities for exploration and problem-solving within practice settings, athletes can enhance their performance and transfer their learning effectively.
Encouraging Creativity and Exploration in Coaching
The podcast episode delves into the concept of 'keeping the door open' in coaching practice, promoting creativity and exploration among athletes. By setting problems for athletes without imposing specific solutions, coaches empower athletes to find their unique strategies and solutions. The approach fosters creativity and allows for the emergence of novel and effective solutions, enhancing athletes' ability to adapt and excel in various game situations.
On this episode, we are going to be doing a deep dive on practice design! This is a topic many of you are very interested in and passionate about so I figured we would shine a light on it.
To do this, I've compiled some clips from some of my amazing guests that will give you their insights on practice design. In addition to that, I will be giving my input on each clip to hopefully guide you towards your own takeaways.
I hope you enjoy the show!
One quick note before we get started, you may have seen on social media that we at Emergence have announced the dates for the 2024 Sport Movement Skill Conference. This is a hybrid online and in person event and is my favorite event of the year. You have the option of attending for the lectures, the in person coaching or both. It’s completely up to you
Right now, we are offering our early bird pricing so I would highly suggest you mark tour calendar for October 4th and 5th and take advantage of this sale!
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