New Tricks for Sports, from Bo Keely

2014-10-06 · Bo Keely
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From a lifetime in various sports, there have always been four stages to test any new act for the proven repertoire.

1. Does the new thing work in solo drill?

2. Does it weather practice games?

3. Does it withstand great fatigue?

4. Does it carry through tournament stress?

Thus, any new thing to be added to your sports show is not proven until it wins a tournament. At that point, you may relax and continue to use it to success.

Only about 1 in 10 of my early new tricks withstood the rigors to become a sweet spot of my game. Sweet, because any simple new thing added to a standard act usually makes a dramatic change in performance.

Comments

Yi Xu on October 7, 2014 10:12 am

Agreed. However even if it had not been approved/validated, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is not good.