Watching sports on tv this weekend, as I generally do, twice I heard professional coaches lamenting about how little time they had to practice. Mike Babcock of the Maple Leafs and Jose Mourinho of Manchester United have both been stymied in their efforts to improve team performance by a congested game schedule.
A speaker at the Sport for Life Conference once stated that many basketball parents rate a program by a) the amount of 'stuff' their child gets and b) the number of games they play.
The Canadian Sport for Life model establishes an ideal practice to game ratio for all ages / stages of development. For those in the Learn to Train (9-12 yrs) and Train to Train (12-16 yrs) it is generally 3 or 2 practices for every game played. How many sport teams observe this ratio?
Think about it this way, the game is a test to see what you know and what you don't know (rather like at school). After the test, you know what you need to work on. If you don't practice, however, how are you going to get better? www.canadiansportforlife.ca
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