Process How-To: Googled “how to layup”, “how to shoot a 3-pointer”, and “how to steal a ball”
3a. Process Failure Points: Missing a shot, getting the ball stolen, missing a pass.
3b. Process Difficulties: Anything involving ball handling or dribbling. Defense.
Exception Protocol: On offense: Pass the ball to a better player than myself, or set a pick. On defense: play very close to my opponent.
5a. Avoid anything involving dribbling but not scoring.
5b. Prepare and practice two-point shots.
5c. Focus on getting open for a 3-point shot. Practice consistently shooting from 3-point line.
Get better by playing.
I would say basketball is fairly complex. One thing I didn’t mention in the original post (mainly because it starts to get into the “how do individual people learn”) but for me, I don’t get good at a competitive skill by competing against people who also suck. By getting good enough to be able to play with people who are actually good, it made it easier for me to learn the advanced part of the game faster.
Also, this post has a list of (at least what I think to be) fairly non-trivial skills that I have trained using this method.
Basketball is an example. I’m about to head home so I’ll do the ultra-abbreviated TL;DR version:
Goals: Score points, prevent opponent from scoring points.
Archetypes: Offense (2-point), Offense (3-point), Defense
Process How-To: Googled “how to layup”, “how to shoot a 3-pointer”, and “how to steal a ball” 3a. Process Failure Points: Missing a shot, getting the ball stolen, missing a pass. 3b. Process Difficulties: Anything involving ball handling or dribbling. Defense.
Exception Protocol: On offense: Pass the ball to a better player than myself, or set a pick. On defense: play very close to my opponent. 5a. Avoid anything involving dribbling but not scoring. 5b. Prepare and practice two-point shots. 5c. Focus on getting open for a 3-point shot. Practice consistently shooting from 3-point line.
Get better by playing.
I would say basketball is fairly complex. One thing I didn’t mention in the original post (mainly because it starts to get into the “how do individual people learn”) but for me, I don’t get good at a competitive skill by competing against people who also suck. By getting good enough to be able to play with people who are actually good, it made it easier for me to learn the advanced part of the game faster.
Also, this post has a list of (at least what I think to be) fairly non-trivial skills that I have trained using this method.