October 11, 2019 | Tagged Skills
Deliberate Basketball Practice
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At some point in your basketball practicing you will hit a plateau. Eventually, your daily practice will maintain your skill but you don’t really keep improving. That is why deliberate practice is so necessary. Your brain is amazing, but we have a challenge to face in keeping the tenacity to overcome thresholds.
Here are ways to break through thresholds this year and maintain your path of improvement.
Set goals. Identify one or two specific ways you want to deliberately improve your skill in one aspect of your talent.
Set up a challenge. As much as we don’t like tests, the intensity and heightened experience of the test causes our brain to remember more and work harder. This tension is a necessary component for improvement.
Learning feedback is crucial. Many people stay at their plateau simply because they don’t know the next step. They are stuck and they remain stuck until they have insight into the next step to take. You can’t do what you don’t know. Experts, mentors, books, videotaping, and trying new experiences all push the brain into new ways of learning.
Perfect practice makes perfect. Perfect practice doesn’t mean you never make mistakes. Mistakes help push us and teach us but sadly, if you practice something inaccurately, poorly, or halfheartedly, this kind of practice is dangerous. Practice should engage and challenge your mind and heart. If practice is mediocre or worse, you will not improve.
About NBC Basketball
NBC Camps started in 1971 and have grown to be in 6 countries. NBC Basketball program offers day camps, overnight camps, rookie camps, college basketball prep camps, travel teams and more. NBC stands for Nothing Beats Commitment and the understanding that our daily commitments reveal the person we will someday become. NBC Camps focus on intensity, mental toughness, skill mastery, basketball IQ and leadership. For more information about NBC Basketball visit www.nbccamps.com/basketball .