Thread by @brandontoner

PART 3: Visual Roaming

Ok now one of the examples from today that prompted this exploration:

While playing in a curling playoff, I thought of building a performance tool encompassing all of mine, and my team-mates’ (@TodddMercer) knowledge 🥌🥌🥌

Part 1 here ↓

https://twitter.com/brandontoner/status/1337862850258350080

There are LOTS of components to the game.

Delivery technique
Shot-calling strategy (conditional logic, with lots of variables)
Communication
Environmental factors (degree of speed and curl on different ice paths)
Practice techniques & tools.

Etcccc

Now I could pick apart ANY of these. And really, I’d want to do that for ALL of them (and the aspects I didn’t think of), slowly, but steadily creating a more comprehensive model of the game over time.

This would be SUPER useful, and super fun.

I’ll go with strategy.

Who has hammer?
What’s the margin of error?
Who are we playing against? What are their strengths/weaknesses?
How does this path curl?
How heavy or quick is the ice?
In-turn or out-turn?
What split time was draw weight again?
Are we leading or trailing? By what margin?

↑ these are just *some* of many considerations.

There there are options:
- if we’re down by a few and have hammer, we need to score big. That means lots of guards.

Corner, and then another corner guard.

The play some hit and rolls.

Ok, but then during all that, make sure to remember some key communication points with the team:

- Decide the right amount of ice to call
- clarify the goal-weight, convert to a split time.
- get a time, say it out loud.

“3.60s, bit heavy”
“Back 8”
*no sweeping*
*crashes on guard*

*gets idea to integrate some different checklists & example communication phrases*

> skip should have called on for line.

This is intentionally disjointed.

Bits of incomplete information, all useful as process or example for the team.

I want to capture the shards, then integrate them into context. Build information assets over time.

While lots of this *could* be done with text, sometimes it feels forced.

Parts of this are better to outline as images, lines, visual trees, pictures.

The trick will be finding something with infinite scale.

Block-mentality but with visual assets.