Off The Pitch With Active

Ben is a young football coach based in Brisbane, Australia. Just off the back on spending the last 9 months in Uganda, East Africa working at a football academy called Football for Good. Currently studying a masters at the Queensland University of Technology and the tutelage of Ian Renshaw and Brendan Moy. He runs a YouTube channel, ‘Opposite Direction’ making short educational videos about coaching and some theoretical ideas that may underpin coaching. Ben puts a lot of his understanding and knowledge down to the people he has connected with and been influenced by during his coaching journey. ‘I am because we are!’ Overview 03:15   Introduction and background 10:48   Ben talks about his experience in Uganda 15:30   With so many new terms and learning theories emerging in coaching, is one better than another? 21:00   Ecological psychology-Perception Action Coupling; a new emerging motor learning theory in line with Non-Linear Pedagogy. 26:30   Representative learning, what is it? 38:30   Human experience, doe