Excerpt from a May 8, 2024 YouTube video by Ethan Khoza about basketball training. In this passage Khoza emphasizes practicing with small, context-driven adjustments rather than repeating identical reps — using a welder analogy — and recommends aiming for many variations across practice ("10,000 variations over 10,000 reps") to build adaptable skill rather than rote repetition.
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Just gonna move it around. I'll give you a go call. Wherever that ball is at, you gotta start it there. Go. I feel like my shot, my release is a lot better now. Thought it's like, okay, good welder is gonna do the same thing over and over again. That's why it looks identical. Like, that's what the best ones do. They saw that. Like, it's actually the opposite of it. Like, the best welders make a little adjustment every single time, just depending on, like, where do they start from. Yeah, exactly. That's why they're experts. That's why they're better, because they can adjust a little bit. It's the same thing with shooting. So you got to be able to adjust a little bit every time. Change my mindset on that. A. A good way of thinking about it is, like, they have, like, a 10,000 reps. Thought like, okay, so if you want 10,000 reps, I would say you want 10,000 variations over 10,000 reps. You get 10,000 variations of something, like, you're probably better than the 10,000 exact reps. It's got to be. Got to be challenged, got to be go.