I’m trying to burst through a few specific goals laid out above. The first is to simply improve something that I know has lots of scope for easy gains in my current performance. My surfing lacks commitment to my edging (I think) and to drive more edge means for me, to find the point of failure and then try again. Failing fast like this leads me to utilising my edge better and ultimately surfing better (I hope!).
Why have I chosen to go to failure in this? Well, strengthening my role in the tide race is still under development and each successful roll de mystifies things and removes consequence from a failed surf and speeds up my learning as well as relieving cognitive load and will eventually allow me to concentrate and try out technical adjustments to the practice of surfing technique than worry about recovery as much.
Number 2 in my goal hit list supports my ability to coach others in dynamic environments such as a tidal race. Again, it’s also feeding another goal which is to practice a particular rescue that I want to develop to support others safely in bigger water.
Number 3 is to try and get practice using the ‘hand of god’ rescue in dynamic water. This is difficult to practice because few paddlers are willing to throw themselves upside down without a paddle in a fast bumpy tide race, so I am forced to stock my paddling buddies in the tide race to see if I can position my self to aid a failed roll before they do a wet exit. No 3 is also directly linked to my strategy to drive and support performance in an adaptive environment, where an ability to upright an athlete/student to support their recovery immediately avoids the sometimes more difficult traditional methods when a physical adaption is restricting that approach
Number 4 is just the final stage of building self rescue confidence and requires the right day with the right people to facilitate the calm required to capsize with no paddle in the tide race and operate calmly underwater below my ‘affective threshold’ to get the job done.
In my view, all these four goals are all linked in to bigger objectives in my APC journey. My personal Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD), strengthening my ability to coach others in dynamic water (Coaching Box) and my ability to build trust in rescue and recovery in advanced waters (Split Paddle Rescue and Dynamic Group Rescues).
#LongTermAthleteDevelopment (LTAD) #SkillsAcquisitionTheory (SAT) #ConstraintLedApproach (CLA) #Rolling #CynefinDomain #FailFast
