7 Ways to Drastically Improve Your Skill Level
1. Imitate-- Find a key player to model his or her skills and become a devoted student. Watch film, keep stats, practice his or her moves.
2. Intensive skill development--- Take a skill and repeat it as slowly but as correctly as you can. Practice the drill two times very slowly, then the third time as quickly as you can, and end with practicing the drill as slowly and accurately as you can. Do this six times.
3. Crucial skill development-- you gain skill when you put consequences on your practicing. Before you start your individual practice time, set up quick but costly consequences to help you master your skill. For example, set a goal to make 5-10 shots in a row at game speed from one specific spot on the floor. Start again if you miss. If you don't get the goal within three attempts you owe 10 knee highs (Jump up touching your knees to your chest).
4. Yagattawanna. This is an old NBC slogan. It means you have to want it with all your heart. You have to desire to be a player as if your life depended on it. If you don't care that much, you won't do what you need to really elevate your skills. What is your passion level? How badly do you want to get better?
5. Be precise. Don't call it practicing if you are just shooting around. You can go shoot around at your hoop for hours and really be doing very little good. Skills are developed in a very specific manner. Your practing should resemble what all great athletes, musicians, students, etc.. know. Painstaking, relentless, disciplined measurable practice like the shooting example listed above. There are many great resources available on how to be practice the right way.
6. Eye of the tiger. There are countless examples in sports about the second born being better athletes than the first. That's because the second often comes on the scene with the eye of the tiger, a hunger to be first, to win. First borns also have strong advantages over second borns, but all of us should find someone to compete against who pushes outside our comfort zone, who challenges us, who makes us better.
7. Mastery is worth it. Research has found those who have learned to master one area can translate that into being able to master more areas more rapidly. Be dedicated for the long term. The more you see your investment into practicing as a lifelong pursuit worthy of your best effort, the more quickly you will develop as a player.
Resources for this article include the following two books: "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle and "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell.
2. Intensive skill development--- Take a skill and repeat it as slowly but as correctly as you can. Practice the drill two times very slowly, then the third time as quickly as you can, and end with practicing the drill as slowly and accurately as you can. Do this six times.
3. Crucial skill development-- you gain skill when you put consequences on your practicing. Before you start your individual practice time, set up quick but costly consequences to help you master your skill. For example, set a goal to make 5-10 shots in a row at game speed from one specific spot on the floor. Start again if you miss. If you don't get the goal within three attempts you owe 10 knee highs (Jump up touching your knees to your chest).
4. Yagattawanna. This is an old NBC slogan. It means you have to want it with all your heart. You have to desire to be a player as if your life depended on it. If you don't care that much, you won't do what you need to really elevate your skills. What is your passion level? How badly do you want to get better?
5. Be precise. Don't call it practicing if you are just shooting around. You can go shoot around at your hoop for hours and really be doing very little good. Skills are developed in a very specific manner. Your practing should resemble what all great athletes, musicians, students, etc.. know. Painstaking, relentless, disciplined measurable practice like the shooting example listed above. There are many great resources available on how to be practice the right way.
6. Eye of the tiger. There are countless examples in sports about the second born being better athletes than the first. That's because the second often comes on the scene with the eye of the tiger, a hunger to be first, to win. First borns also have strong advantages over second borns, but all of us should find someone to compete against who pushes outside our comfort zone, who challenges us, who makes us better.
7. Mastery is worth it. Research has found those who have learned to master one area can translate that into being able to master more areas more rapidly. Be dedicated for the long term. The more you see your investment into practicing as a lifelong pursuit worthy of your best effort, the more quickly you will develop as a player.
Resources for this article include the following two books: "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle and "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell.
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