The Single, Biggest Liability: Revisited

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So I was watching a highlight clip from some random college team (I think it was the University of Washington in St. Louis) and at the very end of the clip, there was a shot of the coach saying, "At practice, every drop, the whole team runs." Now that would be a very good incentive to stop dropping huh? Not only that, but its simple, not too time consuming, yet I would imagine that its quite effective.


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  1. Bobby June 5, 2010 at 9:55 PM

    haha we talked about this, and I stand behind the idea that it would suck balls haha. On a serious note it is a pretty good idea, on the good side it would force everyone to be more focused on the game and work on catching and be good for getting in shape while being an effective but not overly unfair punishment. My suggestion would be to do this every once in a while though not every practice as it is good to have a focus on moving past turns in game as well as the fact that it could potentially take up a large amount of time in practice; what we anticipate doing next year with 3 point games and sprints for point difference and this could be used interchangeably to keep focus and intensity up during practice.

  1. Sean June 6, 2010 at 12:03 AM

    Consistency is key in negative reinforcement, like running or sprinting. There should be some structured way of deciding when and what kind of negative reinforcement to do. A certain objective or goal needs to be stated as to why we do it. There needs to be a direction to every practice and to every part of practice. A theme for every practice maybe? "Dont drop the disc Day" "Dont get broken day" "Dont get beaten deep, but try to beat everyone else deep day" "No hucks day". These types of themes would heighten our situational awareness and allow us to concentrate on one small part of our game every practice.

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