Basketball - younger teenagers, all-ability, mixed @ Bushey (4)

Traditional sports coaching focuses on guiding players to develop their individual skills in order to achieve peak performance at high speeds while flawlessly executing their roles within a system. Essentially, it’s about coaches and players using machined-mindedness to construct a well-oiled machine of sporting excellence. Coaching players to step outside machine-mindedness involves guiding them away from a narrow focus on merely closing the gaps in spacing and timing between skills for quick execution. Essentially, this means encouraging them to slow down and incorporate more spacing and timing within their skill components. It's about helping players understand that while one step in a specific direction may lead to a positive outcome, it doesn’t necessarily ensure that following steps in the same direction will produce similar results. The goal is to make players comfortable with taking actions that might not directly lead to higher performance standards. As a result, players begin to sho…