Modern coaching is undergoing a paradigm shift. The best results no longer come from repetitive drills or prescriptive instructions but from environments that mirror the unpredictability and complexity of real games.
Did they ever really come from drills or prescriptions? I don’t believe so to be honest. I think good players grew up developing skills and game intelligence and then could take in information based on their previous experiences and not necessarily based on instructions from a coach per se.
While the old isolated methods may help players develop basic technical or maybe coordinative skills related to the sport, they frequently fail to translate into improved performance during actual games.
We have often heard the anecdotes from famous players and “their journey” tell about all the “reps they got in”.
But why do they never talk about all the games they played? All the experiences they had in games and training against their own team mates? The games in the street? The bad days when they were outclassed?
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