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Considerations for Practice
- When designing practices, exercises and drills, consider the strengths and weaknesses of each player and your team as a whole. Choose activities that allow your players to improve their weaknesses and exploit their strengths in competition.
- Teach so that your players learn to help coach each other. Instruct them to watch for correct and incorrect techniques, movements and decisions when in pairs or groups. The feedback your players give each other will prove invaluable in developing team unity and help players develop a greater understanding of the game.
- Make practices fun. Design practices that hold players' attention. Use exercises and drills that your players enjoy. Use these exercises to lighten the load of hard work and to establish positive team attitude. When practicing drills, do enough to improve technique, yet not so much as to bore your athletes.
- Keep your talking to a minimum. Short, concise instructions are better than long explanations.
- Be willing to create or adapt drills to meet unique needs of your team. Skilled players master drills fairly quickly, so add some new twists to challenge these players.
- As you introduce new skills and techniques, you also need to review fundamental ones. Drills are a good vehicle for addressing your players' technical flaws.
- Introduce new skills early in the practice session, when players are fresh and attentive. Practice new skills for several days before incorporating them into more complex drills and game scenarios.
- And above all, be well organized.
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