The title of this put up is one thing I believe lots of people have heard. I wasn’t considered one of them till I learn it in a Tom Clancy novel in 2022 or 2023. I used to be teaching at Radford on the time. Whereas I perceive the concept, it’s troubling to me after I think about it within the context of teaching. There are two associated causes for this.
There’s no universally relevant resolution
I’ll begin off with the fact of volleyball and different sports activities the place the context wherein a participant executes expertise continually varies. If we had been speaking about taking part in violin, or one thing like that the place there’s a exact technical chain of actions, then this concept positively is sensible. The musician is in full management of themselves and their instrument. There’s a clear proper and flawed method to play the track the way in which they wish to play it. And so they need to have the ability to repeat that in each efficiency they offer (excluding improvisation, in fact).
In volleyball, nevertheless, a participant primarily by no means does the very same factor twice in sport play. There’s all the time some variation. We’re not coaching gamers to have the ability to execute the identical factor the identical method time and again. We’re coaching them to make use of expertise within the myriad of the way they’ll have to make use of them whereas taking part in the sport. It’s the entire thought of “repetition with out repetition” that Rob Grey speaks about in his e book How We Study to Transfer, and within the movies I share right here.
Improvement isn’t about making it good
The second factor I’d say on this “till you possibly can’t get it flawed” thought is that it really works towards developmental development. We don’t wish to anticipate gamers to be good at one thing earlier than progressing them. If we did, we’d be ready for much longer than essential to maneuver them on to the subsequent problem.
That is effectively represented by an thought I carry up in The Good Drill. In that e book I share one thing USA Girls’s Nationwide Staff assistant coach Tama Miyashiro talked about throughout a session on the 2022 AVCA Conference. She informed attendees that of their gymnasium, as soon as a participant (or group, presumably) will get to about 50% success with no matter they’re engaged on, they up the extent of problem. That’s a good distance from “till you possibly can’t get it flawed”! It additionally dovetails with what I beforehand talked about about how they for a failure charge of about 1 in 3.
In different phrases, we wish failure. That tells us there’s problem, and problem is what drives improvement.
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