Coach as a Designer

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Coaches should view their role as designers who create specific practice tasks to simulate aspects of the performance environment to enhance performance. The coach's focus should be on designing tasks that target specific features like defensive or attacking skills, tumbling in swimming, or climbing a frozen waterfall. This approach signifies a shift in the coach's role from an instructor to a creator of a learning environment, allowing athletes to take the lead in their own development.

A discussion with Keith Davids, Professor of Motor Learning at Sheffield Hallam University and an innovator of the constraints lead approach to skill acquisition and coaching. We discuss using ecological dynamics to study sports performance, sport analytics, ecological psychology, team coordination and designing for exercise and health promotion.

More information about my guest:

http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/cser/professor-keith-davids

http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/dynamics-of-skill-acquisition

https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415744393

http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Perception-Action-Sport-Davids/dp/041918290X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K17791XqNqU

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

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Twitter: @Shakeywaits