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Oct 26, 2026
Ed Cope in conversation with Roger Kneebone
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Roger KneeboneHOST
Or should you be waiting? But then presumably, if you leave it too long, they've missed the opportunity of being developed in a way that they
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12:03Ed CopeGUEST
And so by virtue of the fact that you are in an environment where you are with players or other young people of a similar level of talent and therefore you're getting a challenge there, that you're playing competitive or games against players that are of a similar, you are in an environment where challenge, which we know is a key principle of any learning environment, is more present.
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12:29Ed CopeGUEST
If you happen to be so much better than everybody else, then complacency kicks in, stagnation kicks in, and just everything's too easy.
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12:40Ed CopeGUEST
We know from any environment, any learning environment, if there's no challenge, then there's no progress.
16 MINS LATER

Roger KneeboneHOST
But I imagine, you know, at Loughborough and elsewhere, there are many, many different sports where coaching is a central part of what happens, of course.