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Male 1: Anthony Derci, North Shore Junior College Baseball. My freshmen year, I was struggling with my batting average barely hitting over 200. I needed to find a way to raise my level of performance when I was hitting. I did two things. I had a coach who worked with me on my swinging mechanics, and I started putting in an hour or more every night extra at the batting cages. By the end of that season, my batting average is up to 328. The lesson I learned was by raising my level of consistency in my hitting mechanics and skills; I also increased my level of performance.
Male 2: In talking about sports performance, it is important, in fact it is critical. But, you understand that your level of performance will always be equal to your level of consistency. What do we mean by that?
Let us take for example a basketball player shooting free throws on the course of their season, perhaps they played 10 games to that point. They have averaged 10 free throws a game or taken a hundred free throws. Their free-throw percentage is only at 52%, meaning they have hit 52 out of 100 free throws. However, in game seven, this particular player hit nine out of 10 free throws. Now, that does not make this player a 90% free throw shooter because of what they accomplished in one game, because their level of consistency over the season or over the multiple games in competitions is going to be equal to their level of performance.
How do you raise your level of performance? Simple. By raising your level of consistency and that is done through all the things that we have talked about in how you practice and if you practice and when you practice when you have time to do it. Do not expect to go to the end of your season and improve and commensally far and above all your team mates because you are all going to be practicing in a team setting. Individual development and individual improvement does take place on the off season or on extra time that you put in outside of team practice.
One of the great philosophers of all time Gough said the following. “Greatness is nurtured in solitude, sports are no different.”
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