Repetition is needed from players to master skills but creativity is needed from coaches to facilitate the necessary learning.

We need to move on from the dated view that Coaches are the only “experts” on court. That we as coaches have all the knowledge & we just need do download it into the brains of the players.

For me this means:

Less use of structured boxes to “control” the players actions & technique
More use of solving defensive, neutral & offensive game situations. Being comfortable in the messy situations on court that happens all the time in match situations.
More use of posing problems (game situations) for the players working solutions out together, giving clues & not answers to the problem so they thereby do most of the learning themselves.
To assume it is all about the coach being the expert is wrong and dated in my opinion. Part of the process? Yes. The absolute answer to learning? No.

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