Practice Should Be Fun But Games Are Not How You Make Practice Fun

The first thing that probably comes to mind when you think about how to make practice fun is playing a game. However, when it comes to making practice fun games are often misused and counterproductive. Why? It comes down to what makes practice, practice. The purpose of practice is to make you better. Therefore, an […]

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Deciding Which Approach You Should Take to Improve A Skill

A skill is the ability perform a task that has value. If performing a task has no value, then it’s not a skill. For example, watching a movie is not a skill unless you are a professional movie critic who provides value by offering your opinion to consumers. A sports example would be running. Running […]

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Should Wrestling Practice Be Fun? Yes, but Games Don’t Make Practice Fun

Short answer is YES, wrestling practice should be fun. But let me walk through it and make the case for why the fun should not come from playing games. First, let me say that I ask this question about wrestling practice because my two boys wrestle and wrestling practice is rarely what a kid would […]

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