All to often I run into other instructors and coaches and they are giving lessons or we get to talking about training whether it is baseball, soccer or football. And the one thing that keeps coming up is style or method and all to often the instructors try and train players like they used to train and thats fine but instructors need to know when they need to change what has worked for them and to try something new. They need to remember that each player is different and should be treated as such. Once you become and instructor you have start seeing things through the eyes of an instructor. Just because somthing worked for you doesnt mean that it will work for your client. Take for example a hitting instructor I knew he would teach the same training for 20 years he said that it has worked all these years for him and his son so it will work for every one, but the problem was it didnt. Those clients that didnt find success with him found success with me not because my way is perfect but because I treated the player like an individual and I was able to take what worked for him from the first instructor and what from mine and we put it together.

Instructors need to stop being so arrogant (I know I am very arrogant about our training) and adapt and change and realize that their is no perfect method but a perfect way of relaying information. Instructors need to remember that they are teachers now and not players any more and they need to know when their playing expereince is useful and when it is not.