We coach space and timing skills to think outside the box. Thinking inside the box - we achieve what we can reach. Thinking outside the box we attain performance beyond our reach. We find other ways we can’t yet see. That once seen we wonder why we didn’t see it before. A Wow moment.
Our space and timing coaches will suggest and show and give players an experience of using space and timing to think outside the box. Players see what they can’t yet see. Players do something they never thought they could do. They experience Wow moments.
Coaching players in space and timing skills to think outside the box - requires players to let go of current in-the-box thinking. It means players are stopped from using any in-the-box thinking to tell teammates what to do. Our coaches don’t coach fundamental skills. Players are prevented from competing using athletic dominance and encouraged to compete using space and timing. Players are shown how to compete by going through the space between each other and not through each other. To compete with their ability to think outside the box. We call this “the be kind” rule. Playing to learn space and timing skills to think outside the box - is a lot of fun.
Stepping outside of a boxed way of thinking can be hard. When coaches see a player getting more anxious, frustrated, and angry by their attempts to get the player to step outside of their boxed thinking - the coaches leave the player alone. Along as they don’t break the Be Kind rule. At the end, coaches will suggest the player is not yet ready to learn the space and timing skills to think outside the box. It is always a question of timing. The player is always welcome back when they feel ready to step outside their boxed thinking.
No one is ever excluded for lack of athletic abilities or lack of fundamental skills. Players need to want to learn the space and timing skills to think outside the box. Or there is no point in being at our sessions.