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Originally Posted by August
Well I don't get how a coach can coach by remaining silent. His job is to advise, instruct, correct and motivate the players. How's he going to be able to do that if he can't even signal them?
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Originally Posted by August
Yeah i imagine their playing/training time limited to a couple of hours a week.Being kids though their handle on the rules and tactics of the game are tenuous at best. The coach can't run out on the field to tell a kid where he should be standing or to pay attention to what's coming their way every time a kid gets confused or distracted.
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All in all it's a brilliant technique; Having spent much school and college at wrestling, soccer and Rugby and four years beyond on a Rugby club touring side, the noise and cruel comments are distracting if not unnerving. A coach, by placing his 'trained miņions' in play, is transmitting the implied message that they are 'ready to face off' and he knows they will "amaze him with their brilliance" (if not somewhat elevated ineptness
). Patton and R E Lee actually employed this technique. Everyone who
steps into the
arena is there to perform and in the instant of the match, training is over and
silence to apply what has been imparted is
golden...and the little buggahs will show ya' and not disappoint unduly!