Reply To: Game Intelligence / Decision Training

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TomM wrote:
Great discussion guys. Joan Vickers talks a lot about limiting coach input to only the extremes. Comment way the players execution is exceptional or really poor but now on every decision they make. (in her Decision Making booklet) When yoou comment do it like Dave says and ask for the reasons they made the choice.

My Tuesday practice focuses on game playing roles one and three. Individual offensive and individual defensive skills. We do a lot of small area and transition games.

I will try the 'Silent Treatment' in some of them and see how it works.

I have a couple of players with Tunnel Vision and it may be a way to help them.

Back when I taught with Joan, she talked about "Bandwidth Feedback" – it starts out fairly wide (generic) then gets narrower (more specific) as time goes on. Kind of like fine-tuning; it requires participants (and coaches) to pay LARGE attention to small details. I recommend you read her booklet or her latest text, "Perception, Cognition and Decision Training" from Human Kinetics (even if she misspelled my name inside…!)

I will be interested to hear how your silent treatment goes, Tom. When John and I come out to your skill academy, perhaps we can try something there… although the best approach is to try it in a gym off-ice (much more quiet).

Let me know if you want to bring your "Turk" out to our "Supergroup" session on Friday morning. Email me for more info.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
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