Motor memory deals with the same motorized-muscle-mechanics principal as muscle memory....the idea is the same,,,but the term, motor memory, better describes that it is a process not just a muscle thing...
I teach this lesson by going to the foul-line (with one of my players in front of me, the rest around the paint......I tell the player to, "Once my eyes are closed put your hand right in my sight-line, but not on the ball or arm, to ensure I am not looking...I then go through the foul-shot, as I have done millions of times over 30+ years and shoot the ball as if I could see it. (Once the eyes are closed, it has to be mentally completed because there is no target for the eyes).
To develop the "memory" you have to do reps. That is how a coach thinks and this guy:
Practice Practice Practice; And Then; making shots becomes second nature by muscle memory. No thinking required.
must have been a coach.
madtown, the way I cope with much of the ignorance and close-mindedness that often rears its ugly head on message boards is to visualize what their homes might look like. Some have poor homes, some have very nice homes. But I picture their homes totally empty of any meaningful reading material. The most they may have around are a few magazines — book shelves are just picture frame and keepsake displays. No books except, maybe, a How To Clean A Gun book. Ignorant people don’t read books. Or fact check. Or bother to Google.
It's not personal, lv, it's perceptions.
you're making a bad situation worse, making it personal to those who responded.
Meditation of any kind kills my energy, so for me,,,nope.
Me, I want to go to the gym on Thursdays and Saturdays, work my self into a good sweat and then sweat some more.
2-3 pickup games in a row.
Play till one of the kids walks over and says "You ok,,your face is red"
I smile and say, "cool"
If you want to teach how shoot at the backboard or goal, the first thing you have to do is remove the goal from the teaching process until it is time to use it.
I do a shooting drill called spot shooting. I put a dot on a hard (concrete) wall at the height of one or two inches below the height of the back-board-red square and have my players shoot at the spot on the wall. They must hit the spot (within a fist's circumference of the spot) and, on a downward arc. The next step is to do it 4 out of 5 times, then 20-25, etc.
If you can hit a spot on a wall with the proper arc, you can hit your "spot" on a backboard.
And while they are doing this drill I have 5-10-25-50 reps to teach her the proper mechanics of the process.
This way as the muscle part of the memory develops, the mechanics develop and the patience and understand that you miss sometimes even when everything's perfect.
When all 3 come together at the same point,,they become shooters.
But this how Coach Jumper does it.
Maybe someone else does and thinks the exact same way.
Maybe not.
"Who cares if it works for me".
Which, by the way...is the exact mentality a
shooter in-game has to have
