Basic Concepts of Deception in Sports.
Deception is a wonderful tool to have in an invasion sport (Sport where the basic goal is to invade the opponent space). Deception can give us an extra step and can be a difference maker. If you happen to be the biggest, strongest, and fastest player on the field everytime you might not need it as much as the average player but be certain that there is usually someone bigger, faster, stronger waiting around the corner to show you up. Deception can be the great equalizer so that it does not matter if you are the bigger and the fastest. Deception is in my mind one of the most important but sometimes overlooked concepts in sports.
Thinking ahead
Creative ideas
Non-repetitive movements
Building of ideas based on how the opponent reacts
Awareness
Idea Stacking
Thinking Ahead is something you do to try and stay one step ahead of your opponent. Example in basic terms lets say the first time you engage with a defender you run to the right. The next time you engage you fake to the right and go to the left. The third time you you go to the left then fake to the right and go back to the left.
Creative ideas can help because if you do something predictable then it will be easy to defend. Creative ideas and thinking can be very hard to defend because in its nature creative thinking is unpredictable. The defender will start second guessing and not being sure of what you are going to do next.
Non-repetitive movements this is sort of like creative ideas, think of this as the stepping stone of creativity. If you want to become creative then stop doing repetitive movements or the same idea or concept everytime or most of the time. This is the fundament of Creativity.
Building of ideas based on how the opponent reacts and Awarness are a little one of the same. If you are aware of how the opponent is reacting to you then you can build ideas off of how you think they are going to react. What did you learn after you put toghether a string of different approches. Example is when you went right or left and put together a sereis of movements. Now you can see how your opponent reacted, what they are good at and what makes them uncomfortable etc.
Idea Stacking would be the accumilation of all of these concepts. Once you have gotten to the point of building ideas based on your awarness then you can start stacking a sereis with another series of movements and creative ideas. Pushing the concepts further or using these concepts that you learned against one opponent and using it on another to see how they react. Finding patterns with in a team of opponents or finding generalization from on position to another.
