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A player-centered approach to coaching: unless your players are robots, they need to develop their decision-making skills during game play.(Report)

Developing game-playing skills is central to effective sport performance. During game play, the player is ultimately responsible for discovering and assessing game needs, solving problems, and responding with appropriate decisions and skills. Traditionally, however, the coach has the primary responsibility for assessing game problems and formulating solutions. A player-centered approach (PCA) to coaching and teaching sport--in contrast to a coach-centered approach (CCA)--emphasize the need to give players autonomy to make their own choices both within the game and outside of the game (i.e., during practices and competitive events). Strategic, tactical, physical, social, and ...

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