Dr. Kelly Starrett
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And, you know, those kids are going to self-select eventually.
Like Caroline identified that she wanted to play in college and was starting to put in the extra work much earlier and,
They reject it because it's not fun.
Like they suddenly aren't with their friends.
They don't have a good time anymore.
It's not enjoyable.
It really becomes about outcome-driven, one or zero.
I won.
I have value.
We didn't win.
It wasn't fun.
And one of the great opportunities we have is that where β
do we train adults to become coaches?
So the whole American model is predicated on you being a volunteer coach.
And where did you get all that training?
Maybe when you were in high school, you got, you modeled some behavior from a good coach, but we don't do enough formal coach development, even how to talk to kids at different times or how,
where and how we kids acquire skills and that movement theory, motor learning.
There's a lot of richness here, but we, we have to start to level up because right now, sometimes we're like, we just need a body, you know, and men particularly are like, well, I played in high school.
So I'm a qualified coach.
And you're like, that's just insane.