Greg Chappell

Today’s discussion

- Wise old Adage- State of the Game- Why Cricket?- The Chappell Way- The Principles- Training the Principles

“Any life can be damaged by the wrong words from theright person’s lips. Conversely, any life can be healedby the right words from the right person’s lips. Each ofour lives has been touched by the presence of one individual who made a tremendous difference. That individual may have trusted in you when others doubted,backed you when others backed away, saw deeper into your soul than you ever imagined possible. That person provided a kind word at a critical moment, an encouraging smile, or an arm around the shoulder.”

The real crux of coaching

Dominated by Australia at International levelwith a serious threat to the games future from a number of external factors.

A very structured centralised approach

With less unstructured learning experiences taking place

A greater proportion of adolescents and adults living a sedentary lifestyle

Kids turning away from formalised sportand creating their own unstructured entertainment.

A change in the way the family dynamic operates.Greater numbers of both parents working with a greaterreliance on fast entertainment and formal instruction.

It’s a game that reflects the ups and downs of life. One that simulates a wonderful teaching and learning opportunityfor both players and coaches

The three influencial characters in the creation of “TheChappell Way”. Albert Einstein and his theory of Relativity,Isaac Newton and his laws of Motion and Nicholas Negroponteand his unstructured approach to learning.

Albert Einstein proposed that time was relative to the situation. The same applies in cricket. But Einstein’s theory can’t be achieved without observing Newton’s laws.

Isaac Newton’s first law focussed on Inertia. It states that for an object to move it must be acted on by a force. The forces actingon the body are gravity and the ground reaction forces. Setting up positions that allow us to optimise these is critical.

Isaac Newtons second law was focussed on Force. It states that Force =mass x acceleration. Given our mass is stable we need to generate acceleration, to do this we coilthe body like a spring.

Isaac Newton’s third law states that for every action there will be an equal and opposite reaction. In cricket we set up the levers to shift the bodies mass to allow this to happen

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Information Labsand Futurist, wrote a wonderful article in the early 1970’s on thestate of education in Japan compared to United States. He titledthe article “Learning by Doing: Don’t dissect the frog, build it”.

Learning is far more efficient when the person or frog is encouraged to develop solutions to problems.

- Many hours of unstructured play- Supportive environment- Competed in many sports and activities- Minimal formal competitive pressures

Different stages of development require differentapproaches.

Not only is the motor skills maturing, but also the personsemotional, strength, speed and endurance capacities.

Therefore it’s important to provide a wide range of situational learning’s and encourage players to developsolutions for many problems.

The level of competition and training will depend on theability of the athlete to develop satisfactory solutions. Once achieved move on….

Bowling Machines and drills such as the Invers Routinesare a small part of the whole. Remember if your goingto dissect you need to be able to put it back together again.

Something they couldn’t do for poor Humpty!