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Gordon Pretorius

Rugby coach and university educator in the Netherlands; Head Coach & Director of Rugby at RC Spakenburg and founder of CoachCraft, featured on The Coach G Show.

Mar 25, 2026

9:37
And when did you realize that your perfect Tuesday session or Thursday session doesn't always equal a good Saturday or good performance on match day?
9:52
Yeah, you know sometimes we think that We've got to do things so well in the week that we perform on a Saturday or then we get to the Saturday and we absolutely get thrashed or we just don't connect with what we were practicing.
10:11
There's also times where we would train terribly and not have a very good training week or have a week off in between really important games and actually perform.
10:24
And so for me, I was starting to look at, okay, how did it get to the point where you either train badly and perform well, or you train perfectly well and perform badly? So I was looking for the connection.
10:38
And I was at uni, we teach a part of a course we teach for didactics is based on memory and based on memory.
10:46
um you know how how things stick in long-term memory or what happens when you know what causes it not to stick for example even the smallest thing and so i was teaching the course and i just had a moment of oh this makes sense you know it connects to i think we're overloading them with information um And we're not putting them in situations enough, which is game-like.
11:13
So we're not mimicking the game enough.

51 MINS LATER

62:29
And if you are able to elaborate a bit on that, if not, if you can then at least maybe give us some guidelines on how coaches can use AI.

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