Teaching Over Tape Measure

The Little Athletics movement in Australia focuses on Personal Best (PB) performances rather than placings. "Be Your Best" is a common catch cry. Encouraging kids to focus on their own performance rather than comparing themselves to others is a fine philosophy.

However, care must be taken to avoid this becoming a preoccupation with achieving PBs to the exclusion of all else. A resulting need for constant measurement, causing the sport to become tied up in timing and tape measures, leaves no time for teaching.

Teaching should always trump the tape measure with kids.

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