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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 3362160, member: 7631"] There are many great points being made in this thread. Tony's golf allusion brought something to my mind. I'm a musician and I was really into Irish music for several years. People hear Irish music and the first thing they think of is speed. When they try to learn it, they ALWAYS want to play faster than they can. Rather than "practice makes perfect," they practice sloppy playing and it becomes "practice makes permanent." I took a few lessons from a really famous flute player. He alluded to Jack Nicklaus (the golf tie-in). He read a book by Nicklaus in which Nicklaus said he never wastes a swing when practicing. My teacher was adamant that quality is more important than quantity when practicing. That I should have a plan every time I pick the instrument up. Part of that, of course, was consciously playing slowly but perfectly. I agree with the sentiment above that a lot of the "break them down and build them up again" is ridding players of bad habits. I think the origin of bad habits is analogous to the Irish music I alluded to -- kids see LeBron or Diana make some otherworldly move and they try to emulate it, when they can't. So they arrive being able to do a few tricks but with poor fundamentals. The tricks need to be stripped away, and the fundamentals ingrained. Geno's practices are renowned for having no wasted time. I suspect Megan learned that (from Geno and possibly from visiting Pheesa and Alex), so her training was very efficient last summer. [/QUOTE]

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