Reply To: Game Intelligence / Decision Training

Good stuff Dean. I am currently on a vacation in Victoria with my wife.

Some things change and some things don't.

Example: I am writing this on an Ipad hooked up to a keyboard by Bluetooth and to the internet by WiFi. Totally wireless. Last night we watched a movie using Netflix via WiFi. I type in Butchart gardens and my Iphone gives me turn by turn directions. Booked my hotels using Hotwire etc. etc. Most of this couldn't have been done evern five years ago.

How we learn hasn't changed. If you want to be an author it isn't good enough to be able to spell, type and construct sentences knowing which is the verb, noun etc. You have to write and learn from your mistakes and then write some more. It is the same learning the piano, to sing, to teach.

Very important to have the basic skills but the game itself has continually changing situations that require responses and you can't be simulated in one way drills. Even SAG's don't are limited because the player experiences the situation he is playing and not the total game.

A coach has to organize practice so that he/she teaches the basic skills AND how to apply them in all of the various situations and transitions that happen in a game.

Big Challenge.