Play is our future
Skill is measurable w/ two resources 1) time, 2) energy
Players whose actions make better use of these resources can be defined as optimal. This is not subjective
Time (faster)/overload/conscious/stress
Energy(easier)/underload/unconscious/low anxiety
Orgel's First Rule:
"Whenever a spontaneous process is too slow or too inefficient a protein will evolve to speed it up or make it more efficient."
Faster (speed/strength)-Deliberate Practice
Easier--Play
Overload (D.Practice) builds faster=hypertrophy and results in measurable selection resulting in problems such as Relative Age Effect, and players with very fast cars saddled with inexperienced drivers
It's more likely to be wrapped around a tree than finish the race.
as Orgel says, if we allow it, play will produce faster and easier
Kids in play build the driving sills first, in Go Karts, like Ayrton Senna
Big brains, slow cars, easier
But where speed is limited by physics,
Ideas are plentiful and under resourced in US youth sport
Almost every coach will agree w/ the following
Competition is important
Training is more important than games
Play is more important than both
But,
the big thing is to keep the big thing the big thing
