A Constraint-Led Approach to Coaching Cricket

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🚀 Article in 3 Sentences

1. Explains what traditional cricket coaching sessions focus on and what the limitations of this way of coaching are
2. Introduces the CLA and explains what taking this approach to cricket entails
3. Coaches need to understand that there is no ‘perfect technique’ and the unique interaction between individual, environmental and task constraints means each player will emerging problems in their own unique way

🤝Impressions

Nice and accessible introduction to the CLA. There are still some good points for coaches that are familiar with the approach to take from it

👨‍🏫Who should read this?

This is another great introduction to the Constraints-Led Approach. Replace the word ‘cricket’ and the sport you work in and most of the main points will be the same

🎾How Article will influence my coaching

• Technical faults may be due to the individuals ‘constraints’

📃Takeaways for coaches

• Cricket research has shown that to develop appropriate technique a representative environment where perception and action are maintained is needed
• Coaches can also manipulate the environment to create conditions for behaviours to emerge
• Understanding of how the constraints are interacting allows the coach to shape behaviour more effectively
• Bradman- “Tell that what to do, not how to do it”

🥇Top Quotes

💡 This suggests that performance emerges as a function of the interaction of unique individuals with specific task and environmental constraints. 

💡 Constraints are boundaries that shape a learner’s self-organising movement patterns, cognitions and decision-making processes 

💡 Adopting a constraint-led approach requires coaches to understand that performers have the potential to solve performance problems in a number of ways and therefore there is no such thing as one optimal movement solution. 

💡 As movement patterns emerge as a result of self-organisation under constraints, coaches can deliberately manipulate constraints to create the conditions that lead to effective performance 

💡 In summary, adopting a constraints-based perspective to cricket provides coaching with a framework for understanding how performer, task and environmental constraints shape each individual’s performance

Detailed Notes

Here's the link to my detailed breakdown of the paper. I go through each section of the piece and pick out the parts that stick out to me 

Research Review: A Constraint-Led Approach to Coaching Cricket

Link to the full paper

Paper is available on google scholar but this is a link to it published on a website

A Constraint-Led Approach to Coaching Cricket

Reference

Renshaw, I., & Holder, D. (2010, June). A constraint-led approach to coaching cricket. In 1 of 1-Conference of Science, Medicine & Coaching in Cricket 2010 (p. 35).