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Learning through Sport: The importance of Play in sport "skill" learning
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Monday, April 6, 2015. The importance of Play in sport "skill" learning. The importance of Play in sport "skill" learning. Play is not an easy thing to define, and sometimes less easy to recognise. Two people might be hitting a ball with a raquet against the wall, and one might be playing and the other is not. What do I mean by this example? Play is central to sport expertise. His research suggested that it is the hours accumulated in invasion game activities that differentiates expertise. Research b...
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Learning through Sport: March 2013
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Small Sided Football (SSF) and Australian Football. I arrived early to give a talk to junior football delegates about game sense coaching and skill development. I listened with interest as the delegates discussed the by-laws of the association pertaining to the numberof coaches permitted on the field. Six - did I hear right? It then became apparent that the games consisted of full side 18v18 games on reduced but not small fields. Http:/ www.aflcommunityclub.com.au/? However, why ...
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Learning through Sport: January 2012
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Skill Acquisition Literature Review. I am taking over topic coordination of Skill Acquisition and Biomechanics at Flinders University. My summer reading was to review relevant literature to 'bring me up to speed'. In this blog, I share some of that reading. French,K. and Thomas, J. (1987). The relation of knowledge development to children’s basketball performance. Journal of Sport Psychology, 9. Younger players action plans constrained by their skill level. Ward, P. and Wil...
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Learning through Sport: November 2014
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Saturday, November 8, 2014. Game Sense Coaching of Invasion Games. Game Sense Coaching of Invasion Games. This is in contrast to. The more common mechanical and directive approach to training that deconstructs the game into discrete elements which are “rote” trained through repetition in drills during practice eventuating (maybe) in a culminating game like activity to finish practice and lead into the warm-down. 8220; sport coach as educator. When well understood, Game Sense coaching has the advantage of...
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Learning through Sport
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Play With Purpose: An Introduction to the Game Sense Approach. This Blog first appeared on thephysicaleducator.com 9/07/14 Original can be found at http:/ www.thephysicaleducator.com/blog/files/play-with-purpose.html. Internationally, physical education (PE) has been critiqued as lacking in educative intent, direction or purpose. The critique stems from two observations of the common practice of PE:. One of the pedagogical approaches bringing attention to the cognitive dimension...
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Learning through Sport: February 2014
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Sunday, February 2, 2014. What is the value of fitness training and fitness assessment in Junior Football. AFL National Coaching Conference, Feb 1st, 2014. But does fitness training and assessment have any value in community sport settings like junior Australian football clubs? Prioritise putting a football in junior players’ hands over fitness training and assessment. 11 years of age. Payne and Morrow, 1993). So while there are undoubted health effects and growth and development advantages in encour...
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Learning through Sport: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Play With Purpose: An Introduction to the Game Sense Approach. This Blog first appeared on thephysicaleducator.com 9/07/14 Original can be found at http:/ www.thephysicaleducator.com/blog/files/play-with-purpose.html. Internationally, physical education (PE) has been critiqued as lacking in educative intent, direction or purpose. The critique stems from two observations of the common practice of PE:. One of the pedagogical approaches bringing attention to the cognitive dimension...
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Learning through Sport: December 2012
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Sunday, December 2, 2012. Learning to play with Purpose. This Blog was originally posted on the Australian Council for Health and Physical Education Blog. Http:/ www.achper.org.au/blog/blog-learning-to-play-with-purpose. A drill is just a drill – how often in a game of basketball or football do you see players execute a 3-player-weave? When do players run off markers over a set distance to another marker in a game? Game-centred, but not game only. Games from the same game category (Invasion, Target, Net/...
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Learning through Sport: May 2014
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Friday, May 23, 2014. How do we design our PE programs? Is our service improving? In 1981 Howard Mutton, the then PE Curriculum and Policy Officer in South Australia, concluded to The Committee of Enquiry into Physical Education and Sport in South Australian Schools that "vague notions of playing games and sports are no longer adequate attitudes towards PE". Thirty years on, has school PE progressed beyond "vague notions of playing games and sport"? During the 6 years of primary school? Especially if the...
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Learning through Sport: March 2012
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Get it through the sticks - thinking about goal kicking performance in Australian football. Get it through the sticks - thinking about goal kicking performance in Australian football. The biomechanics of kicking. The approach line (the least accurate kicks in the study had a curved approach that did not conclude in a straight line before the kick). Ball movement during the approach (should be minimised). Ball position at drop (drop the ball in line with the kicking thigh). Fatigu...
