What: Your players decide how they want to play, then track how they are doing.
Why: This tool helps your players to get strongly focused on their own learning.
Motivational line: “Players seeing their accuracy improve through repetitive practice, provides an immediate boost to their self-confidence”.
Materials needed
No materials are needed.
Preparation
Prepare a drill (i) that the players already know well, not too complicated.
(i) example exercise:
This can basically be any exercise that focuses on a technical skill, and that the players have done several times before. Alternatively: a simple one-against-one drill.
Let’s do it!
Explain the drill to the players.
Ask the players what they want to focus on in the drill. Let them answer out loud in maximum 2 words (e.g. speed, footwork, head up, etc).
Explain that each time after they perform the drill, they run past the coach, and then back to the start position. While passing the coach, they:
give a high five when they think they really focused on their focus words.
give a low-five when they forgot about it.
When giving the high/low five they also say their focus words to the coach.
When they all understand, start the drill.
