One bad practice

I ran one bad practice and wrote down what went wrong. What came back had things in it I didn't know.

I coach a team of four and five year olds. The first one was a bit of a mess. Not a disaster, just disorganized, and hard for them to follow. So afterwards I put down what I saw. They needed less structure, not more. More fluidity. Tone the whole thing down. That was the entire contribution. Notes from a bad hour.

You've got a version of this. The report you rewrite every month. The handover nobody else can actually do. The thing where you'd notice something was off and couldn't say why until you watched it happen.

The next plan had things in it I wouldn't have thought of. Teaching a throw-in: two hands, over your head, feet stay down. Then, don't referee it. No retakes, no calling a throw wrong. At four the point isn't a legal throw, it's knowing what to do when the ball goes out.

That didn't come from me. I didn't know it. And it didn't come from the model on its own either. It came from a practice that actually happened and somebody writing down how it went.

Plenty it still couldn't know. Two balls instead of one each. One coach, no assistants. Parents watching from the side rather than helping. That isn't in any model, it's in the trunk of my car.

People tell me they'd need to know a lot more before they could make anything with AI. I knew nothing about coaching. I paid attention while one practice went badly.

The four things I'd write down first are in the attachment.

When did you last do something badly and actually watch it happen?