I think one of greatest books of sports training was not written by a coach or by a researcher of the study of the movement and a sociologist philosopher, perhaps the greatest living today: Edgar Morin, advocate complex thought.
In the eyes of an expert and maybe I might sound like a heretic according to him is a series of nonsense, but try to read "La test legs take, education reform and reform of thought ", you will find yourself how important it is to know the pages of this book to understand a fondo i principles of sports training and youth training.
A book aimed at all teachers, not only, I would also say to the coaches, coaches who achieve a purpose radical:
Educate
Educate for a real mission, mission of passion, faith and love.
Coaching is not a word but a word problem answer that follow it in the path dell’uncertainty and not the illusion of Periodization training. The workout is a complex phenomenon that can not and should not be subject to predetermined paths, for this:
Strategies and programs
Direbbe Machado:
Caminante no hay camino
Only wakes upon the sea…
Wanderer, there is no way
but wake on the sea …
The way you do with the journey, we can not preset, we can not schedule, we can not plan everything, the way the coach with his athlete is never equal to itself, there are always constant changes, changes to changes.
Never forgetting the natural principles underlying sport training, in order to achieve the objective, coach means: create, recreate, adapt and adjust to changing circumstances.
For this there is help the theory of complex systems with the concept of "Orlo Chaos"Described in the wonderful book"Spiders prey or "de Comello of De Toni:
The edge of chaos is an area in delicate balance, poised between the two extremes of order and disorder. Come sing Vasco Rossi in Sally: "Life is a thrill flying away, it's all a balance above the madness ".
L'orlo chaos, away dall'equilibrio, is a place of creation, but can also be a place of destruction. Likely to precipitate from two sides. On the one hand we find a too static order to keep pace of life and evolution. On the other side we find a disorder hectic and uncontrollable, potentially destructive, instability of the bottom that you do not know where it leads.
The edge of chaos is where life has enough stability to sustain itself and enough creativity to deserve the name of life. Only by maintaining the pace of evolution, only changing, complex systems can be themselves. The edge of chaos is therefore the place of change, Innovation, of discontinuity.
I believe that the role of 'coach should be to always try to manage the balance at the edge of Chaos.
In the "head well done" nicely that we could rename "The workout well done", Edgar Morin
Reads a key step, I think, one of principles of the modus operandi sports training:
The Strategy
“The strategy is opposed to the program, although it may include some elements programmed. The program is the a priori determination of a sequence of actions in view of a lens. The program is effective in stable external conditions that we can determine with certainty. But minimal disruptions in these conditions sregolano program execution and condemn him to stop. The strategy sets a goal in sight, as the program: it prefigures scenarios of action and chooses one, depending on what it knows of an uncertain environment. The strategy seeks tirelessly to gather information, to verify them, and modifies its action on the basis of the information gathered and cases encountered along the way.
All of our teaching program tends to, while life asks of us and strategy, if possible, serendipity and art. It 'just a reversal of the concept that you will implement to prepare for the times of uncertainty.”
In the next article on the principles described in the "head well done"
Giulio Rattazzi
