Reply To: Game Intelligence / Decision Training

[RookieCoach]

Dean,
Teaching anticipation is part of a feeling that one person has. The 5 senses (taste , touch, sight ,smell, hearing.) If a person uses his senses to listen watch or study movements of other players it would help. Structured drills at a young age can teach a player bad habits , with no free thinking. But I these same young players were to play pond hockey everyday and the free thinking or anticipation would be a natural learning process. They would use their senses on their own and determine what action to take.
You could help teach this with games . If a coach was to sit back and let platers figure out in a game situation (practice), they would teach themselves sometimes. If you were to take away senses players would adapt using , using their vision or hearing or what ever sense wasn't taken away.

This has to be a new daily feature – Question of the Day !

RK