Who’s right?
There’s a big debate in coaching about how we coach, with two (or three) schools of thought about the underlying assumptions we all have as coaches. Thanks to the video below from Rob Gray, we can question those assumptions and decide how we want to coach:
Outlining the key differences between the Information Processing and Ecological Approaches to Skill Acquisition. Is this a useful dichotomy?
This video certainly made me think about how I coach, especially around batting. With batsmen I have always assumed an Information Processing (IP) method of; see the length and length, choose the shot then execute the shot. However, in other areas I have assumed an Ecological (E) approach. This video makes the point you can’t combine the two approaches, so I will need to rethink.