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Aug 2024
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Alex Sarama | Transform Your Approach to...

UNITED BASKETBALL CLINICS
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Alex Sarama shares contemporary skill acquisition ideas for coaches, practitioners, organisations and federations all over the world. His focus is on helping coaches combine their personal and practical experiences with the empirical evidence which exists within the field of skill acquisition. Many of the ideas that Alex shares are based upon the constraints-led approach underpinned by ecological dynamics.

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