6-12 August 2018

Welcome to European Athletics Coaches Club

Vin WalshLearning Faster

Intelligent Movement

Vincent Walsh

Skill TrainingLearning

S and C

Tactical Awareness

ResilienceCulture

Development

Coach vs Athlete Brain

The rules are the same

Your Challenge

• How do I train intelligent movement?

• If you can’t answer that question, you’re not coaching

What is Intelligent Movement?

• The right action

• At the right time

• For the right reasons

• Delivered under pressure

It’s THE hardest thing to do

GoogleChessGoMemoryMathsTranslate

What about intelligent movement?

What are the rules of learning?

What are the rules of feedback?

What are the rules of rest?

What do you really mean by “teams” & “culture”?

There are no shortcuts

The rules of learning

Morning Afternoon

The rules of learning

• You space things out

• You mix them up

• You STOP BEFORE they “get it”

Bad learning gives under pressure

Why space out the learning?

It allows variety and the learning is deeper

But why stop before they “get it”?

You DO NOT LEARN DURINGTRAINING

Stopping before they get it makes the brain work

Result: deeper learning

The rules of learning

• You space things out• You mix them up• You STOP BEFORE they “get it”

• Benefits: Deep Learning; robust under pressure

• Cost: Doesn’t “feel” good

Resilience under pressure

The rules of feedback

• Immediate

•Precise

• It is NOT a conversation

The rules of feedback

Hebbian Learning

Cells that fire together wiretogether

The rules of feedback

The rules of feedback

• Immediate• Precise• It is NOT a conversation

• Benefit: Efficient error correction• Cost: Embedding learning mistakes

(tennis/slalom examples)

Why?The brain is a story teller.

It’s our job to dictate the story

The rules of rest

Why space out the learning?

You build muscle…WHEN?

So…

• You build skills

• You build memory

• You build “brain strength”

• When?

A Night (a nap)

Verbal/Declarative

Motor/Procedure

What Happens in Sleep?

What Happens in Sleep?

Do you over train the body?

What do you really mean by “teams” & “culture”?

Cohesion in Groups

• ABBA

• Beatles

• Queen

• String Quartets x 1000

• US Navy Seals

• Led Zeppelin

• The Who

• Barcelona

• Spice Girls

• Rolling Stones

• Eagles

• Trout Quintet…?

• Springsteen

• One Direction

30 seconds later…

Making “Culture” Sustainable…

•Means knowing people’s limits and what is sustainable

There are no shortcuts

Intelligent Movement

vin.walsh@gmail.com

Vin WalshFireside chat: Breaking the Conventional Mould

Frank DickKeynote: Winning the Game of Change

“The world today is as different to the world into which my father was

born, as that world was to Julius Caesars”

Alvin Toffler “Future Shock”

What

excellence

is today

2018

2024What

excellence will look like

tomorrow

EXCELLENCE?

BEING COMFORTABLE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE

You never arrive!

BREAK THE MOLD

FEARCOURAGE

RISK

THE QUESTION IS NOT WHAT IS THE SOLUTION

IT IS HOW MANY SOLUTIONS COULD THERE BE?

WHAT COULD WHAT WILL

WE BE & DO? WE BE & DO?

POSSIBILITIES DECISIONS

OPTIONS ACTIONS

WHAT IF? WHY NOT? NO EXCUSES NO LIMITS

DISRUPTDREAM DECIDE DESIGN DELIVER

CANDOUR

TRUST

ACCOUNTABILITYHONESTY

CANDOUR

RESPECT

• CLARITY

• CURIOSITY

• COMMUNICATION

• CONTEXT

• CONNECTION

• COURAGE

• CHARACTER

• CONFIDENCE

• COMMITMENT

C - CHANGE

It’s what you choose to do with what you’ve got and who you choose to be that

will change the world

Don’t try to be someone else, just be better at being you.

“It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumble or where the doer of great deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena, who’s face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who knows, at the best, the triumphs of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. So his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Professor Frank Dick OBE

twitter.com/frankdickcoach

Jean GraciaCoaches Club Review & Future

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