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Why I hate drills

May 22, 2016
1 min read

Vlog time again...

I needed to have a bit of a rant after some of the exchanges I have had with various people in the past few months.

I needed to explain in more detail why I am so against the use of drills in coaching. I just think that it is lazy coaching and it is a coaching methodology that needs to die out from our sporting landscape.

Anyway I hope my rambling makes some sense...

Enjoy...

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17 Comments


nytwordlehints
8 hours ago

A coaching heresy worth hearing! Drills without decisions make cones, not players - games-based practice builds the perception sport actually demands. Thanks for sharing, merge fellas

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The part about drills being lazy coaching really hit home for me. I've seen so many sessions where coaches just run the same repetitive pattern drills without actually teaching players to read the game and make decisions in real time. The whole "drills need to die out" argument makes total sense when you think about how players actually learn best through playing, not through robotic repetition. Speaking of intentional degradation, this reminds me of how some things are actually better when they're not polished — like how bad quality image has become a whole aesthetic for memes and jokes. It's funny how we're so obsessed with perfect execution in sports, but in internet culture, deliberately ruining image quality has become…

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