For young athletes, learning sport skills isn’t a one-time thing. They will need to relearn, tweak, and adjust as they grow into bigger, heavier, and stronger bodies.
The strange thing about almost all of the info we have on talent development never seems to get much traction or permanence within the various sports. The same questions come up surrounding the relative age effect, talent, growth, and always from the perspective that it's something new or never seen before. Information that is outside various sports, like the topics I listed, are not part of any sport's zeitgeist.
I suppose this is simply due to having a new batch of parents, athletes, and young coaches moving through the ranks every few years. There is no Rosetta Stone from talent and growth information related to sport development.
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Suggest you present all your articles on a YouTube channel talking.
Your work is so underexposed.
Plus, you monetise potential.
Thanks for the tip.
Brilliant Bill.
Love your articles.
Keep them coming.
Am really interested in how the path to high level adult sport is not linear.
And identifying and nurturing talent.
So many examples of top level sportsmen who only realised they had talent very late and by luck essentially.
The strange thing about almost all of the info we have on talent development never seems to get much traction or permanence within the various sports. The same questions come up surrounding the relative age effect, talent, growth, and always from the perspective that it's something new or never seen before. Information that is outside various sports, like the topics I listed, are not part of any sport's zeitgeist.
I suppose this is simply due to having a new batch of parents, athletes, and young coaches moving through the ranks every few years. There is no Rosetta Stone from talent and growth information related to sport development.
Thanks for your comment, I appreciate knowing that you like the articles.