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The Sniper Story part 2: Players Resist Change

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

The Confidence Chronicle/Journey to the method/The Sniper Story part 2: Players Resist Change

The Sniper Story: Players Resist Change

Up until 2014 I taught shooting like everyone else.

What I thought was "the right way" - forcing players to change their shot to match my ideal....

And guess what? Players always resisted change at that level - starting with the "Demolition" of their current shot (the only way they have ever had success so far!).

I’m sure you've never had any resistance from your player accepting your advice, right?

Over the next 8 years I had 5 different epiphanies that contributed to what I call the "Remodeling" approach to improving your player's shot.

Combined, these 5 realizations form a system that is more effective in 4 important ways:

1) Increasing a players commitment TO change,

2) Changing how they think about shooting

3) Changing their physical shooting technique in a way that feels natural

4) and - most importantly - improving their shooting percentage in games

Tomorrow I will explain how Epiphany #1 helped a college player achieve a 57% career shooting percentage without his coach correcting any technique... Stay tuned!

See you on the court,
Coach BJ

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Hi, I'm BJ Mumford

Founder of Play Practice Basketball and owner of the Seacoast Hoops Lab in Portsmouth, NH