{"id":107268,"date":"2024-07-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=107268"},"modified":"2024-07-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T13:00:00","slug":"drill-vs-skill-tactic-success-or-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/drill-vs-skill-tactic-success-or-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Drill vs. Skill\/Tactic success or failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I came across a video from The Art of Coaching<\/a> thanks to a student in one of my courses. At its core it has a similar message as the one from Karch in my What percentage of reps should be good?<\/a>\u00a0post. That has to do with having a success rate threshold that you don’t want to go above, generally. The idea there is that some amount of failure is required for learning and development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karch and Kerry from the video both recommend about a 30% failure rate. Or to put it another way, they want to cap success at about 70%. Putting players in that zone is about making them uncomfortable<\/a> to facilitate growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drill failure<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Now, having said that, Kerry introduces – perhaps inadvertently – the question of the success of the drill itself vs. the succes of the actual thing the drill is working on. He did this by exploring a hitting drill that begins with a serve. In order to get to the attack, the players need to be successful at the serve, pass, set sequence leading up to it. Kerry was fine with the 30% failure rate here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video is a bit unclear as to whether Kerry targets a 30% failure rate, or whether he simply accepts one up to that level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I talk about in The Perfect Drill<\/a>, a key objective of a training exercise is to give the players reps focused on something specific. To my mind, not being able to do that thing is a failure of the drill in that instance. Such failures are inevitable, of course. The question is the acceptable rate of those failures. Each one means missing out on a chance to perform the focus skill or tactic, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stacked execution failures<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

If Kerry actually targets a 30% failure rate for the serve-pass-set part of the hitting drill, to my mind he’s creating a stacked set of exercises, with potentially challenging consequences. We start with the players succeeding 70% of the time to generate the necessary set. Then the hitter(s) only succeed 70% of the time. That means overall the drill has a 49% success rate (0.7 x 0.7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you think the players will react to only about a 50% overall success rate? How will you as a coach?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No doubt it depends on the group and the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We want failure of skill or tactical execution by our players as part of their development. But what about failure of the drills we use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[107,112,322],"class_list":["post-107268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-practice-planning","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-team-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}