The 10,000 hour myth

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http://changingthegameproject.com/the-10000-hour-myth/

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We already know.

http://changingthegameproject.com/the-10000-hour-myth/

It always has been ridiculous to have any faith in the 10,000 hour rule. Break it down this way: 20 hours a week for 50 weeks, or about 1,000 hours per year. That means 10 full years of this. No parent in their right mind would inflict such a schedule on any youngster. Sounds good to those fundamentally unable to think for themselves.

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Stop spamming this blog.

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Stop spamming this blog.

Do you even know what a blog is?

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http://changingthegameproject.com/the-10000-hour-myth/

Careful, the sheeple will come on here and defend this myth like religious zealots. Most of them have never competed at any sport on any serious level but by gosh they heard that this was written in a book somewhere.

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Careful, the sheeple will come on here and defend this myth like religious zealots. Most of them have never competed at any sport on any serious level but by gosh they heard that this was written in a book somewhere.

By gosh? Did you write that from the back of the chuckwagon Ms. Ingalls?

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By gosh? Did you write that from the back of the chuckwagon Ms. Ingalls?

Baahhhhhhhh

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This is a worth a read.


http://www.theguardian.com/football/...00-touches-day

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Not worth a read !

This is a worth a read.


http://www.theguardian.com/football/...00-touches-day

10,000 touches a day: If you touch the ball without rest or break every 5 seconds, that is 12 touches per minute which equals 720 touches an hour. So, 10,000 touches only takes 13.88 hours without interruption per day.

This nonsense is so ludicrous it does not need any careful thought.

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10,000 touches a day: If you touch the ball without rest or break every 5 seconds, that is 12 touches per minute which equals 720 touches an hour. So, 10,000 touches only takes 13.88 hours without interruption per day.

This nonsense is so ludicrous it does not need any careful thought.

I ask this only because I'm curious (really, perhaps pathetically), what qualifies as a touch? The article references "toe-touches, Cruyff turns, drag-backs, pirouettes, juggles, dribbles, or paired one-touch passing the players rested, rotated to a different station, and began another set targeting a different skill." Wouldn't most of those be 1/2 sec. or less? I won't be doing the math.

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I ask this only because I'm curious (really, perhaps pathetically), what qualifies as a touch? The article references "toe-touches, Cruyff turns, drag-backs, pirouettes, juggles, dribbles, or paired one-touch passing the players rested, rotated to a different station, and began another set targeting a different skill." Wouldn't most of those be 1/2 sec. or less? I won't be doing the math.

It might take a 1/2 second to do something, but you have to be in a position to do it. That is, count one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three, one thousand four, one thousand five; in that count a player would have needed to do something, a ball touch a move, 10 times. Never going to happen other than a very few minutes of most normal practices. It cannot be sustained. The article should have said 1,000 touches/moves a day.

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I ask this only because I'm curious (really, perhaps pathetically), what qualifies as a touch? The article references "toe-touches, Cruyff turns, drag-backs, pirouettes, juggles, dribbles, or paired one-touch passing the players rested, rotated to a different station, and began another set targeting a different skill." Wouldn't most of those be 1/2 sec. or less? I won't be doing the math.

A touch as I have seen it defined is typically any touch controlling the ball. This can and often does consist of juggling drills. If a player can juggle a ball 1000 times without dropping it many different types of touches will be involved. Also it will take a lot less than 13 hours. The point is if you can have that solid a ball control then your ball control is essentially instinct, and you can focus on other higher level strategies etc...

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A touch as I have seen it defined is typically any touch controlling the ball. This can and often does consist of juggling drills. If a player can juggle a ball 1000 times without dropping it many different types of touches will be involved. Also it will take a lot less than 13 hours. The point is if you can have that solid a ball control then your ball control is essentially instinct, and you can focus on other higher level strategies etc...

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Like pizza and algebra. Riiiiiight? Beep. Boop. Bop. I am R2D2....BURP. Beep. Boop. Bop. I like salad. Bawp.

***...as you aware there are strategies in soccer? Perhaps your kids play boom ball so much that the only strategy is kick/run/kick/run

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***...as you aware there are strategies in soccer? Perhaps your kids play boom ball so much that the only strategy is kick/run/kick/run

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