Practice Making Errors

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I promised I’d bring you useful ideas from teacher-coaches regardless of their sport (or non-sport) of choice. Well, here’s an outside-the-box idea that I’m borrowing from tennis.

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How do you help your players adapt to errors? Give me some feedback in the comments section.

Curious to know what things other creative strategies coaches are using to teach their athletes how to effectively deal with adversity. Talk to me.

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    • Coach Linton

      making mistakes in practice is key to improving and mastering a new skill. Read “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle and you will understand the necessity of mistakes in learning skills and the right way to practice.

    • http://about.me/sefubernard /sef.

      Coach – I agree wholeheartedly. So too, I’d say, does the above tennis coach. When I comes to mistakes, you can ‘catch’ them in the moment and learn/teach through them; or, in the case of the above, you can manufacture them as a coach to train an effective ‘mistake response’.

      As for the book ‘The Talent Code’, it’s a *great* read, isn’t it? I’ve read it and marked it up so much. Lots of useful takeaways. I think Coyle would support the idea put through in the video too.

      BTW… Since you like Coyle’s book, check out his latest “The Little Book of Talent”. I just picked it up last week. Also, “The Rare Find” by George Anders.

      Thanks for chiming in. /sef.