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Learning-a competitive advantage - 2006/07/25 05:06
MESSAGE FROM THE USOC'S CHIEF OF SPORT PERFORMANCE
By Steve Roush
“Probably the only sustainable competitive advantage you have is the ability to learn faster that the opposition” Arie De Geuss
Elite level coaches are constantly looking for ways to improve their coaching, tips that will assist them in conveying information to their athletes or methods to “pull more” out of their athletes. If you have the opportunity to listen to a group of elite coaches discussing their sports, as we did recently with some of the country’s top endurance coaches, you will be amazed at the breadth of knowledge and the variety of areas that are discussed.
The questioning of “traditions” and/or paradigms of training is important to the understanding of sport and the improvement of performance. I am not suggesting that one throws out the “baby and the bath water”, but asking the question -- is what I am doing the best way to accomplish an improvement in performance is crucial.
Paradigms can change and sometimes very quickly. For example, two athletes (thingy Fosbury and Debbie Brill) changed the technique of the High Jump in track and field. It is an anomaly for an athlete to use a technique that faces the bar (which was the standard until 1968) as almost every athlete now goes over the bar backwards.
What are some of the traditionally training methods in your sport? Do you ever wonder why you do certain things in training? Was it the way you were coached or even they way your coach was coached? As Tony Robbins said, “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get-- what you’ve always got.”
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