Sport Science vs Intuitive Coaching

NewsBot · Sep 27, 2016

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Interesting blog post:
Sport Science, Analytics, and Intuitive Coaching

The notion that you need statistical significance or a double blind placebo controlled study to find the actual truth is a notion that is indoctrinated into your mind as a young science student at University. It’s repeated so often, that you actually start to believe it, quoting studies, performing data analysis, in search of a truth.
Long gone are the days of simply “knowing.” Sports science, data analytics, sabermetrics are the new norm in sport.
As someone with a proclivity towards science, it’s a welcome change from the older anti-science days. Yet, as a coach, it’s concerning. As the pendulum swings back and forth between a scientific mindset dominance and intuition based coaching truisms, the danger becomes swinging too far in one direction. These seemingly opposing forces- intuitive feel and experience-based understanding and scientific knowledge- counterbalance each other. They ensure that we don’t tip too far in one direction, ignoring a wealth of understanding that can guide us towards better performance.
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Craig Payne · Sep 27, 2016

Like this quote:

As I like to remind myself, whenever the pendulum is swinging quickly in one direction, it’s time to turn around and look the other way. Knowledge is a tricky thing.
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Dieter Fellner · Sep 28, 2016

It makes intuitive sense that sports science can improve an athlete's performance. Medicine and surgery is forever held to the standard of EBM. In this day of EBM I do sometimes wonder if there is some of that here to support this concept. Or if we even need it. Has EBM taken a wrong turn?

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