Coaches · Podcast

Bigger, Stronger, Faster — and They Don’t Know the Game

Rob Miller on why young athletes have never been more trained and less taught: speed camps for seven-year-olds, schemes over skills, and the youth coach’s actual job.

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Skills vs. Schemes – Podcast with Rob Miller (12 minutes)

In this Proactive Coaching podcast, host Lori Thomas talks with Rob Miller — partner with Proactive Coaching founder Bruce Brown — about teaching skills versus teaching schemes in youth sports. Rob explains why today's athletes are bigger, stronger, and faster but less fundamentally sound; why fundamentals must come before offensive and defensive schemes at young ages; the physical and mental realities of age-appropriate training; how too many games (and not enough practice or watching the game) has hurt fundamental development; and why a program-wide, grade-by-grade skills progression sets kids up for long-term success.

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