Georgetown Summer Camp Module 4 assignment

For this assignment, I want to choose basketball, which is the hobby that I am most enthusiastic about. Basketball is a favorite thing that I love. I am always willing to improve at it. Basketball is not a sport that only requires a single skill. It requires a lot of different things, such as shooting, ball handling, defending, footwork, decision-making, and being able to do those things in the real game where pressure exists. Because of that, I should always be learning new skills and practicing my skills over time to perform better.

While learning throughout Module 4, I learned that just practicing for a long time is not always a thing that is most effective thing. One strategy I want to use to improve myself is retrieval practice. Instead of just watching videos that introduce basketball drills over and over, I will only watch them once or twice and go out and actually try them and do the move from my memory. If I forget something and miss it, I can watch it again and do it without looking it up. Also, I learned that spaced practice is going to improve my learning more than cramming, so I will divide things into a few weeks rather than trying to do everything in one day, which is ineffective.

The potential new routine that I can follow is to shoot 100 free throws, 50 three-pointers, and 100 layups for each practice. After finishing those things, I will go do one new move that I learned from my personal trainer or a move that I watched from the basketball drills videos on YouTube and Instagram. Also, sometimes I will go to use different gyms rather than practicing in the same gym all the time because I learned that changing the environment can also help me remember and perform the skills in different situations.

I believe that this routine is going to help me improve faster than just random irregular practices or pickup games. By testing myself, practicing consistently, and learning new skills step by step, I think I will remember the skills better and use them more naturally during games. Module 4 teaches me that to improve something, practicing smarter is very important rather than just doing many.