Let’s stop being less than the sum of our parts
Let's connect as a Gestalt. Let's create something greater than the sum of our parts. Let's connect for more, not less.
When players put all their attention onto executing their parts within a fixed sum of parts, and it fragments, players make uncharacteristic mistakes. The team’s performance becomes less than the sum of the parts.
Addressing this challenge isn’t about pushing players to execute their parts with greater precision. Rather, it involves nurturing connections between the parts to allow players to create something greater than the sum of the parts—a *Gestalt*. Players observe the big picture of what is going on around them, waiting for opportunities to step in and offer previously unseen alternatives as someone’s options begin to dwindle. Players feel like everyone is supporting them to succeed by exploring the unknown.
However, we must keep practicing *Gestalt*, as the ever increasing ability of technology to measure parts of a performance diverts our attention to perfecting a fixed sum of parts.
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Less about basketball - adult series (13)
Sun 19 Jan
|Loreto College - St Albans
Adults without really knowing how to play basketball experience feeling more human than machine.
Time & Location
19 Jan 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
Loreto College - St Albans, Hatfield Rd, St Albans AL1 3RQ, UK
About the event
@6 - 7pm Loreto College (St Albans)
Please use the gate off Upper Lattimore Road. https://maps.app.goo.gl/SRSj5V2hyjrAbDeE8
Some of our teaching members are running this session to give everyone an experience of feeling more human than machine. We experience the whole as greater than the parts. That true growth emerges from embracing fragility rather than solely focusing on resilience. Players will be stopped from acting as a machine i.e. waiting to act until they target a collision they can win. While physicality is acceptable, it should be used to create space for maneuvering around opponents not going through them. Relationships run the play not machines. This approach allows players more time to execute their skills, leading to improvement, which is a pleasant side benefit. The primary aim is for us all to experience feeling more human than machine.
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