Alex Sarama "A Constraints Led Approach to Teaching"

05/17/21 • 54 min

Alex Sarama joins us on the basketball performance podcast. Alex is one of the brightest young coaches out there and is an out of the box thinker when it comes to challenging traditional ways of doing things to get better results. Today we go through:

1.) Alex's background and how he got into basketball

2.) How teaching through a games and constraints led approach has led to much better results.

3.) Conceptual offense and many many more interesting topics.

1.) Alex's background and how he got into basketball

2.) How teaching through a games and constraints led approach has led to much better results.

3.) Conceptual offense and many many more interesting topics.

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Steffan Jones 'Incorporating Sport Skill into Strength and Conditioning'

Today we are very lucky to have Steffan Jones on the show. Steffan is the founder and owner of Pace Lab a performance company that trains cricket fast bowlers to increase the power, velocity and mechanics of their bowling. Steffan is also the Director of Sports Performance at the Wellington school in the UK. Although Steffan comes from a different sport, I couldn’t help but to reach out to him because I feel like his principles and philosophies are similar to ours at Strive and there is a tonne of carry over from him no matter what sport we coach in. Lets get into it.

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