A Modern Approach to Building Game Speed With James Smith

The traditional approach to sport-preparation focuses on a number of drills that don’t necessarily transfer to performance in the chaotic sporting environment.  A typical training program will develop an athlete’s speed and agility independent of one another. 

It will concentrate on physical and biomechanical development, leaving out the importance of psychological and sensory input training.  With a one-size-fits- all technical model, there will be minimal variability and creativity required of the athletes, which will not produce the adaptable problem solvers needed to excel in competition.

That’s where James Smith works differently, working to use a learner-centered approach with contextual information and problem-solving activities to create relevant agility training for athletes. In this 110-minute webinar, James Smith goes in-depth on his evolved approach to developing real, applicable training for athletes who live in a dynamic and chaotic environment. (All drills in this webinar come with an expansive description in the FREE 19 page PDF book that covers all drills in detail)

• What is your coaching lens?
• What is a skilled athlete?
• Missing piece of the athletic developmental puzzle
• The importance of contextual information
• How I design problem-solving activities
• Invasion Sports 
• Offense Vs. Defense Movements
• Repetition w/out repetition
• Gamespeed principles 
• Practical examples of my problem-solving activities
• Learner-centered approach
• Biomechanical truths
• Closed/ traditional environments
• Implicit learning 

This is a massive webinar that is pushing the envelope with not only how to make athletes more responsive in their sport, but also to foster their long term athletic development and creativity.