Basketball and swim with Gestalt sports trainers.
Because concentrating on individual components takes away the perception of the whole
A typical brain has the capacity to hold awareness of all components and perceive them as a cohesive whole. Without a perception of the whole, you can’t see how moving parts are reshaping the whole, so new opportunities emerge as current ones fade. You can't see how moving parts continually generate something greater than the sum of their parts. You can’t embody the principles of Gestalt— what is beautiful, true, and good—the essence of the full human experience. It is worth taking time out to train the perception of the whole.
The sustained cohesive whole is a calm and continuous layering of unfolding options that finds a way. When it starts to fragment, leaders hold it together. The most significant obstacle to maintaining this cohesive whole is ego.
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When a star player attempts to take over a game by focusing solely on scoring, the other players tend to shift their attention to supporting the star and away from sustaining the cohesive whole.
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When players put too much attention on doing what the coaches want, nobody is paying attention to sustaining the cohesive whole.
When everyone's role, including the star players and coaches, is to sustain the cohesive whole, everyone benefits from the cohesive whole. It's worth taking time out to train the perception of the whole.
Adult - League - @ Longdean (13)
Thu 26 Sept
|Hemel Hempstead
Improve in-game decision-making at the club level by transcending mechanical thinking.
Time & Location
26 Sept 2024, 20:30 – 21:30
Hemel Hempstead, Hill Common, Hemel Hempstead HP3 8JH, UK
Guests
About the event
“The most important lesson I ever learned in basketball? Slow down… Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.” - Jason Kidd
We play basketball to guide players from multiple sports to move away from viewing one another as LEGO-like pieces to be assembled into a machine. Instead, we encourage them to think opponents are trying to hide something from them. As players gain practical experience in moving to find what is being hidden, they cultivate a richer understanding of the relationships, connections, and the intricate web of space and timing that exists between them all. Players learn to slow down and win with spacing and timing
League-level and Mixed
16+
8.30pm - 9.30pm
Thursdays
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