How to Waste Mom and Dads Money

There's nothing more mind-boggling than watching a student of ours hitting by themselves in cage and practicing absolutely nothing that we've recently worked on in a hitting or throwing lesson. When you take a lesson, the idea is that you learn, you take notes, you are challenged to work on a movement pattern, or a mindset, or an approach, and then you go off on your own and you practice that as much as you can to make it stick. If you go off and practice a different process, a different mindset, or a different move, what will that accomplish? Given that generally you have more time on your own than you will with an instructor, there is and endless amount of "training corruption" that you can bring to your own process if you don't diligently focus on what you learned from the instructor. When you take 30 minutes of reps with a professional watching and then you spend 2 hours in a cage practicing a completely different thing with little or no focus or discipline, what do you think will stick? That's not practice. That's monkeying around. Stop being a monkey. Be a Gorilla.