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How much it means to Matty ❤️💙
#NRLPanthersKnights
Brilliant in simplicity...
Movement skills:
Young athletes should be exposed to and be proficient in as many movement skills as possible to build the biggest base of athleticism as possible.
But some of you think teaching back squats for a 10 year old develops elite athleticism...
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March
Skip
Run
Shuffle
Gallop
Leap
Spin
Twist
Bend
Reach
Belly Crawl
Army crawl
Bear crawl
Crab walk
Forward roll
Backward roll
Dive roll
Shoulder roll
Log roll
Cartwheel
Handstand
Round off
Handspring
Vault
Balance on 1 leg
Get up off the ground and balance
1 leg balance touch ground
Hop in place
Hop forw/sideway/backwards
Hang
Swing
Climb
Jump over
Jump up on
Jump off of
Jump for height
Jump for distance
Jump and balance
90/180/360 degree jump
Restist/brace/wrestle/grapple
Sprint straight
Sprint in a zigzag
Sprint in a circle
Sprint back and forth
Backpedal
Sprint then turn to backpedal
Backpedal then turn to sprint
Sprint/360 spin/sprint
backpedal/ 360 spin/backpedal
Balance on 2 feet/ 1 hand
Balance on 2 hands/ 1 foot
Balance on 1 foot /1 hand
Dodge
Duck
Dip
Dive
Dodge
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You don’t rush a sunrise. Same with kids in the gym. Build physical literacy first, strength will follow. Every kid is in their own time zone.
Some are ready for structured strength training. Others are still building balance, coordination, and confidence. Plan accordingly.
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Jedi Tag!! If your interested here’s the rules:
Strike a💪🦵limb and they can’t use that limb anymore. (Why you will see some hop, or be forced to use their non dominant arm)
Strike the body & they ☠️ (Take a knee) when someone w/ the same color light 🔦saber touches theirs they come back to life! 🔋
Strike the 😵💫 & the striker ☠️
Last team standing wins! Thanks to @FarmingtonPower
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A consistent observation is that most pure endurance athletes are withered & frail from 65-70 onwards. The pure strength folks do a bit better (unless too big; plenty seem to die early). The 70yo+ athletes that sprint & do gymnastic-type training are clearly winning the (physical) longevity game. Cognitive longevity = a separate matter.
Brilliant…great resource for curriculum reflection across all areas. Vision, programming. pedagogy, assessment, feedback…definitely going to dig deep into this. @WillSwaithes
Is your #PhysEd curriculum, assessment and intended learning outcomes holistic enough to meet the needs & motivations of today?
Do you explicitly deliver against these 12 threads?
Are we missing anything?
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Is your #PhysEd curriculum, assessment and intended learning outcomes holistic enough to meet the needs & motivations of today?
Do you explicitly deliver against these 12 threads?
Are we missing anything?
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HIP MOBILITY - We can all benefit from some added attention to the hips. If you are unsure of where to start…
Start with this thread 🧵
Hip swivels, use your hands to keep your posture upright and alternate legs going into internal rotation.
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📖RISE to Reflect & Reimagine:
❓How do you manage behaviour that challenge you, without retraumatising young people, whilst still maintaining the high standards we need and want?
Trauma Informed Insights: How to transform behaviour outcomes through connecting before correcting
🔗 futureaction.net/post/trauma…
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#TraumaInformed #Strategies #ForTeachersByTeachers #RISEUp
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The amount of mini-adult training programs on social media is astounding...
Just an FYI: Kids have little desire to do:
planks
split squats
weighted carries
They literally have the rest of their lives to exercise. The pre-adolescent years should be dedicated to developing agility, balance, coordination, and body awareness in a dynamic and engaging environment.
It's important that children have positive movement experiences early in life so that have a desire to continue to move as they get older.
#LTAD
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New blog - the new 7-10 PDHPE syllabus is here. We unpack the key content changes achpernsw.com.au/new-7-10-pd…
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3 months Youth athletic development training for pre-adolescent athletes in 50 sec.
Build a base of movement skill wide and varied.
You don't teach children the ABCs of Movement
Agility
Balance
Coordination
You put them in the environment to teach themselves.
Then everything in life becomes easier, including sports and learning sports skills.
#LTAD #sprint #Jump #crawl #climb #catch #throw
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Here's my favorite LTAD / #Pathway story....
Tennis Australia was doing a detailed, national, sport review to try and figure out why their participation levels were falling.
They commissioned one of the big management groups to do the review - and it was exhaustive, detailed and took the best part of a year.
I was asked to contribute as an industry "expert".
I met two of the researchers towards the end of their review process - and they were NOT sports industry professionals - just very experienced, independent researchers - and I asked them "What do you think the problem is?"
One of them said, "The PATHWAY model".
I asked why he said that.
He replied - and this is GOLD for ALL sports: "We think the Pathway model is killing the sport because when we do interviews, focus groups and surveys, it's clear that players, coaches, parents and everyone else all believe that as soon as they pick up a racket, every kid is on the pathway to being Roger Federer".
He continued. "It just doesn't make sense. It's like making every kindergarten child hold a crayon in a very specific way and making them draw straight lines so that WHEN they become a brain surgeon they've developed the right skills to hold a scalpel".
And then - his final comment....."We don't understand - to extend the analogy - why you don't just let kids hold the crayon anyway they want to and let them draw anything they choose like rainbows and horses and bunnies. Then the ones who decide they love drawing will keep doing it and those who don't wont".
My friends - that story is pretty much where we are. When they love what they do, they will do what they love.
It's time for a different approach to sport.
newsportfuture.com/sport-pat…
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Unlocking Physical Literacy: Three Essential Domains - Unlocking Physical Literacy: Four essential components - physical, affective, cognitive and behavioural, promote a holistic approach. psch.la/4fPYD26
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Does Junior Performance Predict Senior Performance in Olympic Sports? #Olympics #OlympicGames
k = 129 effect sizes, N = 13,392 athletes (62% male and 38% female) from a wide range of Olympic sports
4⃣ central findings:
1. Quality of studies was high.
2. Pooled correlation between jr and sr performance was 𝑟⎯⎯ = 0.148. That is, jr performance explained only 2.2% of variance in sr performance.
3. The finding was robust across types of sports, sexes, wider or narrower performance ranges, national or international samples, and performance measures.
4. Effects varied across age categories: the younger the jr age category, the lower the correlation between jr and sr performance - that is, the further away from sr performance the less predictive ... kinda like trying to forecast the weather🌧️ 2-weeks out!
🚨Headline: junior performance has very little, if any, predictive value for senior performance.
Implications: Keep as many in the pipeline for as long as possible.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…