Quote Originally Posted by matt_magpie View Post
It is guesswork but if he’s hitting high volumes with little success keeping doing the same probably is going to end up in the same result. If a pro golfer hits 100 balls each day at the range for a couple of days and it’s not going right they aren’t going to keep hitting 100 for the next few days, they are probably to sit back, think what’s going wrong and then probably focus on just hitting a few and concentrate getting it right. I think it was encouragement in telling him to try a different approach for a bit, then he can revert back to more once he gets it right.
If he is hitting high volumes with little success, there must be a problem. I am just reading Gavin Peacock's autobiography and he writes about players who stayed behind after training, practising and practising.

We don't know the context of this though - perhaps IB just meant for that day.