Whole Brain Cricket

Whole-brain training is emerging as a totally new approach to sports coaching, and it goes far beyond existing psychological methods. Whole-brain techniques are integrated with the development of the body for technical skill, fitness and discipline.We all have preferences for using some of our four main thinking styles far more than others and this affects our behaviours, attitudes and our results. These preferences affect the way we:

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 Process                      INFORMATION
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  Communicate                                    

The Eastern Cape are breaking new ground using the NBI Cricket instrument. This instrument allows Mila to profile the members of the Border Amateur Cricket Team in order to ascertain how each team member prefers to think during the game and makes them more aware and sensitive to the thinking styles of fellow players. Mila plans to embark on a programme to develop a whole brain approach to cricket.

His bigger vision is to help raise the standards of coaching in this country to higher levels sufficient to produce top ten world-ranked players and a winning Davis Cup team.

John Heuerman talks about their first “test case” for 4QThinking, Zoe:

“In the top 20 for her age group in Kent, Zoe responded far beyond our expectations to my new approach to coaching her. Wendy had explained to me what Zoe’s brain profile indicated about her learning preferences, and we both discussed this with Zoe and her mother for confirmation and understanding.

I then created a new plan for coaching based on this data, playing entirely, at first, to Zoe’s preferences.

The results were immediate – in the lessons it was evident that she was absorbing information and learning to apply it much faster, and having more fun! Zoe was able to transfer this to her match play and I consider her tennis has improved at the fastest rate I have ever seen, with every sign that this is set to continue.”