I can remember wrestling with that question when I first started working as a shooting coach and had a decent amount of theory and no practical experience. When do you move on from working on one habit to focussing on another? The answer seems obvious, you move on when the first habit is in place. This is easy to say but hard to do when you don’t have the confidence or trust of the player you are working with, don’t have the experience yourself, or have spent numerous sessions working on the same thing. There is a natural desire to move on and get to something new but if you believe in the habit you are trying to build then you have to see it through.
Appreciate how difficult it is for a play to really break a habit. It isn’t just a matter of telling them what to do and then sending them out to do it. A better coach will put them in situations to see for themselves the bad habit, then put them in situations to work on that habit with some success. This doesn’t mean in game situations, but rather simple little drills where they are safe to slow down and do it correctly. This can take weeks or months or taking small steps forward followed by little ones back. Trust in what you think is right and stay on course.
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