The Constraints Led Fencing Coach

The kind of skill that is most likely to survive reality is the kind that was cultivated there in the first place.

Performance is not a series of neat, linear, logical compartments. It unfolds across time under the pressure of opposition and challenge. When we mistake fencing for a mechanical system, we reach for tidy tools—like the tactical wheel or logic loops - useless in the face of reality.

In a poule fight you need to win 55% of the points.
In a DE bout you need to win 51% of the points.
As coaches do we focus on the wins or the losses?
Error is someone else's opinion of what shoulda coulda happen in the past. Building strengths is a positive engagement with a future orientation.

Episode 7 of The Adaptive Coach Podcast- David Farrokh on Ecological Dynamics, a theory of human motor learning.

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We do like things to look the way we want them to. But “consistency” is about texture, feel, smell and not so much about repeating the same movement over and over like a photocopier. I think of consistency as reliability of function rather than uniformity of form.

Kelsey Plum is one of many athletes who implemented CLA, also known as the Constraints-Led Approach, into their training.

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