I’ve to deal with one thing that I see WAY an excessive amount of of. That’s coaches in discussions concerning the validity of the sport context coaching method straw-manning what precisely “the sport teaches the sport” means.
Let’s begin with a definition. In accordance with Wikipedia:
A straw man fallacy (typically written as strawman) is the casual fallacy of refuting an argument completely different from the one really beneath dialogue, whereas not recognizing or acknowledging the excellence.
The straw man those that assault “the sport teaches the sport” use is that this implies coaches simply play video games on a regular basis and don’t really present any instruction/suggestions/and so on. In different phrases, they simply roll out the balls and inform the children to play. I’m certain you’ve heard that argument. Perhaps you’ve used it your self. In fact, that’s not what it’s. At finest that’s unhealthy teaching. Actually, it’s extra like exercise administration, or one thing alongside these traces, and never teaching in any respect.
If we had been to flip issues round and straw-man the extra technical coaching method (“drill, drill, drill”?) it could be one thing like saying all they do is remoted talent (blocked) drills. Once more, if you happen to ever got here throughout a coach who did that you simply’d say it was fairly unhealthy teaching – particularly in the event that they didn’t provide the gamers any instruction/suggestions/and so on.
Are there examples of “simply roll the balls out and play” coaches? For certain! All those I’ve come throughout or heard about, although, weren’t really “the sport teaches the sport” proponents. They had been simply lazy individuals there for a paycheck. That’s to not say there aren’t examples of coaches who misunderstand and misapply the method, nevertheless. Equally, there are examples of coaches doing extra remoted talent coaching who don’t know learn how to do it effectively.
To cite Mark Lebedew:
Unhealthy coaches are unhealthy coaches. They are going to at all times be unhealthy whatever the dogmatic place they select. It isn’t the place that makes them unhealthy coaches.
So let’s get away from the straw man arguments. It will get us nowhere attacking what could be the worst doable instance of the opposite aspect. All of us acknowledge that’s unhealthy teaching. If you wish to debate, then accomplish that on the correct foundation. On this case, it’s whether or not coaching in a sport context is best/worse/equal to coaching in a extra remoted style in a given state of affairs.
And if you happen to can’t do something however straw-man the opposite aspect, think about whether or not you could be caught within the “what works” mentality.
As an apart, I’ve by no means actually appreciated the entire “sport teaches the sport” phrasing for sport context coaching. It’s too straightforward to straw-man, as we are able to see.
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