This Is How GMS Thinks About Every Skill
The split step conversation is really a conversation about something bigger: how do you decide what to coach, what to leave alone, and where to spend the limited time you have in the gym?
GMS has been asking those questions for over 40 years. The answers, built on motor learning research, probability, and thousands of hours of practice observation, shape everything in our curriculum. Not just footwork. Blocking systems, serve receive, offensive structure, defensive positioning. Every skill gets the same treatment: does coaching this actually make athletes better, and is the time worth it?
That body of work lives inside GMS+. The community guide on the split step goes deeper on the vision training side of this conversation, the coaching cues, the practice structures, and the environmental design that triggers good movement without over-coaching it.
The full guide covers:
- How to coach vision without coaching the split step directly
- Practice structures that create the right environmental demands for SSC to emerge naturally
- Coaching questions and cues that improve movement patterns without adding complexity
- How this principle applies across blocking, serve receive, and back row defense
Free to access. Create your GMS+ account and the full guide is there.
