One of the more irritating things about liking Judo so much is that it's incredibly unpopular outside France and Japan — so I don't think I can talk about my pedagogical experiments with many people.
(Folks at my dojo aren't as steeped into the expertise research as I am).
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I'm keen to experiment with video feedback — which folk like Eric Chrisholm seem to have put to good use, but for dance:
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The logic is simple: I have limited practice time as an adult, recreational player, so how can I maximise feedback?
The other thing I'm experimenting with is to improve sensemaking from each trial and error cycle — keep a training journal; vary my drills.
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From personal experience... I've gotten ok at squash pretty quickly as a beginner by asking experts, exclusively focusing on 1-3 cues and implementing them while playing.
So every time I play, I'm just building on a foundation of cues.
E.g. always look at the ball.
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The key then is getting really good at knowing which cues are actionable, useful for my current level of expertise and highest leverage.
Then after that it's just about being able to actually execute.
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Agreed — there are two other immediately actionable things I want to try from our discussion, actually, beyond just cues.
1) look for simple heuristics (e.g. the same flavour as when you described zone defence to me)
2) always question drill transfer.
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Like, I think I was slightly shocked at the persistent "why?" whenever I told you about some Judo drill. I'd not been thinking about the why enough.
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Oh really? Hahaha didn't realise that! Interesting. Yeah, this was a habit of everyone in our club. Which was useful but also annoying/wastes time/leads to arguments. Hence why I developed my training methods. To avoid ppl asking why. 😆
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I assure you judo has a culture of strict compliance and we will do whatever the coach says like obedient sheep 🐑 🤪
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Haha! That makes sense. That really adds some much needed context and nuance to our discussions.
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