We make those fleeting moments of uncoachable inspiration - happen more often
Those fleeting moments of uncoachable inspiration are connections that create something greater than the sum of the parts, a phenomenon known as Gestalt.
Players get more Gestalt by putting all attention on the dynamic connections between all parts. Waiting for opportunities to offer previously unseen alternatives as someone’s options begin to dwindle. And if nothing appears, look for something else.
Metrics should be reserved for coaches to set problems for players to solve using their Gestalt. When metrics shift players' focus to parts, decision-making becomes poor: Players overthink the execution of individual parts and lose sight of how all the parts connect. Performance drops below the sum of the parts.
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Younger teenagers (2)
Wed 08 Jan
|Loreto College (St Albans)
Younger teenagers improve at basketball by being more human than machine.


Time & Location
08 Jan 2025, 17:00 – 18:00
Loreto College (St Albans), Hatfield Rd, St Albans AL1 3RQ, UK
Guests
About the event
@5 - 6pm 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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