subject: The Checkerboard Coaching Technique SM and Knowing When you have been Checkerboarded sm [print this page] The Checkerboard Coaching Technique SM and Knowing When you have been Checkerboarded sm
We all know what a checkerboard is. To start take the imaginary board you have and fill each space with the portion of your game you want to improve or analyze. After your board is filled with as many spaces as you care to fill, chose the 20 percent of those items that are the most critical to your performance and place them in sequence from most important to least. Now take the most important or first on the list and ask yourself what is the most effective 20 percent aspect of your performance. Understand that area and expand it. Expand the opportunity to use it next in the game as you now recognize what it is.
I have one real life practical application from one of the NHL's greatest goalies. That discription may be suspect after you read this article. This player who's name shall not be mentioned came to the NHL as a number one draft pick I suspect. Let's keep this short. The bottom line is that the team he faced in the Stanly Cup had studied his most vuneralble areas. I directed them to look at his entire season of goals scored against him. I told them to find the twenty percent areawhere eighty percent of the goals were scored against him all season long. This team seems to have done that. The last game in his series was a disaster for him. The team I explained the application to scored six goals on their first eight shots.
They won. He had no idea he had been Checkerboarded sm. The defination of having been Checkerboarded sm in sports hasbecome the explaination as to why one team looses so big.
