Reply To: Game Sense, Play Reading

[Kai K]

I have used video to teach and feedback. It is a great tool for game sense development. But there is no substitute to game as teacher of game sense and by this I mean SAGs, themed games, transition games.

We play a lot of games off-ice and off-season. Those three principles exists in basketball and soccer too and you can do you transition games off-ice.

There is a old post from Tom about IIHCE lecture by Harri Hakkarainen. In that lecture Hakkarainen speeks of decreasing sports activity of Finnish kids. I believe that this increased screen time (that was near 6 hours per day) is a major factor in decreased numbers of talented young athletes here in Finland.

from Developing Sport Expertise – researchers and coaches put theory into practice:

studies showed that professional ice hockey player spent over 10,000 hours involved in sport from age 6 to 20. approximately 3,500 of these hours were spent in play-like activities (i.e., deliberate play), and 2,300 hours were spent playing other sports. In addition, just over 3,000 hours were spent in organized hockey practice (i.e., deliberate practice), and just 2,400 hours were spent playing organized hockey games

So the 3,500 hours of play-like activities 2,300 hours of other sports alarmingly decreasing because kids dont move by them self and they are specialising in one sport too early. This is really puting pressure to coaches because you have to make training many-sided. And you have to make up some how the loss of 5,800 hours. This is obviously effecting the game sense too.

Dean,
I know that some Finnish youth national teams have had video projector and screen beside the rink and they just plugged their camcorder to projector to give instant feedback .

Kai

Kai