Reference

Pinder, R. A., Renshaw, I., & Davids, K. (2013). The role of representative design in talent development: a comment on “Talent identification and promotion programmes of Olympic athletes”. Journal of sports sciences, 31(8), 803-806.

🚀 Article in 3 Sentences

1. The first part of the paper centres around these two important questions(i)why is there so much wastage of talent in such programmes? And (ii), why are there so few reported examples of successful talent transfer programmes?
2. The then propose how an ecological dynamics underpinning could enhance the development of existing protocols
3. They then discuss more specifically discuss how representative learning design could be used

🤝Impressions

Really interesting article that raised some important points to help reduce ‘talent wastage’ in development.

👨‍🏫Who should read this?

This would be a good read for any coach/organisation that use talent evaluation or interested in using it. I think it would also be beneficial for teachers/researchers to see the limitations of measuring FMS in decomposed tasks .

🎾How Article will influence my coaching

Evaluation Tasks should

• Embrace Variability
• Include the key information from the performance environment
• Ensure decisions are context dependent
• Representative affordances for action need to be present
• Consider individual differences

📃Takeaways for coaches

• Current Talent ID is tries to maximise limited resources available to organisations which ultimately ends up excluding potentially talented performers.
• Traditionally Talent Identification tends to highly value a smaller number of metrics that are measured in isolation from performance context.