{"id":357,"date":"2015-12-08T20:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T20:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/hubershow\/?p=357"},"modified":"2015-12-09T21:03:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:03:59","slug":"blog08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/blog08\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Steps to Developing a Smarter Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year of my coaching life it\u2019s a new battle to get a group of kids to learn the playbook. \u00a0It is rarely easy, although some teams I have had were easier than others. \u00a0It\u2019s incredibly frustrating to call out a play and watch it break down in a critical situation because someone didn\u2019t know what they were supposed to be doing. \u00a0It can be frustrating to have a terrific playbook, and a team that doesn\u2019t know how to execute those plays. \u00a0Coaches have nightmares about this stuff, we awaken in the dead of night dreaming of missed assignments, blown screens and games thrown away.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/hubershow\/15\/\">Jim Huber Podcast #15<\/a>, we went to one of the smartest human beings on Earth for answers on creating a smarter team. \u00a0Jim Kwik is renowned memory expert that folks like Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and the team that created Google have hired to maximize their brain\u2019s learning potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/hubershow\/15\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/onken_140627_JimKwik_001-1.jpg\" alt=\"2014 Jim Kwik\" width=\"625\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/onken_140627_JimKwik_001-1.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/onken_140627_JimKwik_001-1-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quick story on Mr. Kwik, he was a child that had suffered a traumatic head injury as a boy that impaired his learning. \u00a0After struggling mightily and falling behind in school, he literally began ignoring traditional methods of learning in school and began instead to focus on mastering the process of learning itself. \u00a0He decided he had to \u201clearn to learn\u201d all over again, and the results were astounding. \u00a0Jim can now meet an audience of a hundred people, have them tell him their names and 2 numbers, and then recite it all back to them in any order they would like. \u00a0His mind, once labeled as \u201cslow\u201d is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us rely on traditional teaching methods in practice to master our plays. Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. \u00a0The thing is, repetition takes time, and as you know with a limited practice schedule time is of the essence.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Jim about his FAST method and how it might apply to learning and mastering a playbook and teaching a team to execute what they have learned on the hardwood. \u00a0The method also applies to learning skills, say shooting or footwork as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The F in FAST is Forget.<\/strong> \u00a0To learn something new, we need to empty our cup (all that we think we know), and accept the new information. \u00a0If I want to learn shooting from Steph Curry, I have to be willing to let go what I think I know and truly take in the information he might give me. \u00a0Jim says, &#8220;If you want to learn something brand new you have to forget what you already know about the subject temporarily. \u00a0You can\u2019t learn what I have to teach you if you don\u2019t empty your cup.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0People need to forget what they know and have an open mind.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A is for Active in FAST.<\/strong> \u00a0Kwik\u2019s research says that the way we traditionally learn, passively sitting or standing around being lectured to and hoping something sticks is a poor way to learn. \u00a0Active means getting\u00a0your players to participate, ask questions, roll their sleeves up and get involved in the process by teaching others. Fantastic quote from Jim,\u00a0\u201cLearning is not a spectator sport, you have to get off the bench, because what you put in is what you get out. \u00a0You need to be active with your learning.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>S is for State in FAST.<\/strong> \u00a0Kwik\u00a0describes\u00a0\u201cstate\u201d as a fancy word for the mood or feelings of your mind and body and says all learning is state\u00a0dependent. \u00a0If your players are bored as you explain say a new offensive or defensive scheme, that boredom will become\u00a0\u201cattached\u201d to the information and much of it won\u2019t stick. Attaching meaning to the information,\u00a0\u201cguys, this is the scheme that will help us beat our hated rival this year\u201d, might change the player\u2019s state as they learn the information. \u00a0Thinking of beating that rival makes the information relevant to the emotional core of\u00a0the mind as it learns, it gives it a reason to learn and absorb the info more fully. \u00a0Another way to change state is through physical movement as you learn. \u00a0Kwik quote, &#8220;Another way of changing your state is by changing your physiology or your body.\u00a0\u00a0As your body moves, your brain grooves.\u00a0\u00a0The people that are physically more active will remember more because you create certain hormones in your body and brain.\u00a0\u00a0It allows you to retain things.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T is Teach in the FAST method.<\/strong> \u00a0I suggested to Jim that it might be a good idea to have members of my team teach certain plays to the rest of the team. \u00a0He LOVED that idea. \u00a0\u201cTeaching something to someone else will assist you in learning it quicker. \u00a0When that player learns a play in order to teach it to others, he or she will by necessity have to learn it at a higher level. \u00a0They will approach the play with an entirely\u00a0different\u00a0method and mindset than if they just stared at a playbook.\u201d When you teach something, you learn it twice,\u00a0and therefore teaching can be one of\u00a0the highest forms of learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The amount of great info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/hubershow\/15\/\">Jim Kwik shared in episode 15 of the\u00a0Jim Huber Podcast <\/a>was tremendous. In 18 minutes I became a better coach and teacher and it\u2019s my hope that you will too.<\/p>\n<p>Find information on Jim Kwik, receive a free gift and view his learning resources at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwiklearning.com\/jimhuber\">\u00a0www.kwiklearning.com\/jimhuber<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year of my coaching life it\u2019s a new battle to get a group of kids to learn the playbook. \u00a0It is rarely easy, although some teams I have had were easier than others. \u00a0It\u2019s incredibly frustrating to call out a play and watch it break down in a critical situation because someone didn\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}