Posts Tagged ‘GAIN’
“It’s the people business stupid”: GAIN 2013
Coaches are in the people business
I have just returned from another fantastic GAIN (Gambetta Athletic Improvement Network) in Houston, Texas.
The 5 day event was full of ideas, tips and sharing of coaching philosophies.
Read MorePhysical Literacy/ Athletic Development: Vern Gambetta
“Paper is 1 dimensional; humans live and breathe in 3 dimensions”.
Vern Gambetta delivered the first lecture of GAIN V on the importance of Physical Literacy and how it underpins everything else we do.
(I know I have reviewed this backwards,but it also acts as a summary of everything I learnt this year).
Gambetta’s lecture emphasised the fact that the Human body is a self organising sytem that is capapble of amazing things: our training should reflect that, not inhibit it.
Read MoreWhat has happened to P.E in this country?
Progression, Variety, Precision
These were the 3 cornerstones of Physical education and a gym culture where “you went to learn, not to train” according to Ed Thomas at GAIN V this year.
Dr Thomas is a mine of information on the history of P.E. (I don’t mean a GCSE syllabus) and its educators.
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