It is no mystery that the best way to improve as a lacrosse player is to get your stick in your hand. However, many players don’t want to put in the time and the effort to practice. The SPAITR Platform solves this problem in a multitude of ways:
One of the best ways to incentivize players to practice is by holding them accountable for doing so. The honor-system has been the only way to confirm that is someone was working outside of practices and games; however, I think it is safe to say that we have all cheated that system a few times…
The SPAITR Platform solves this problem by tracking player performance and making performance visible if you are part of a team. Now, coaches and teammates can tangibly see who is putting in the work to get better and who is not.
Beyond this, coaches and captains on the team can set goals, and progress meters will be able to show who has met their goals and who is close to meeting them.
From talking with players daily, we find that one of the biggest reasons not to practice is that it feels like a chore, and the way off-the-field practice currently is, we don’t disagree.
The SPAITR platform changes this by bringing fun competition to practicing. On the SPAITR app, players can create a profile and follow their friends to see the work that they are putting in to set new goals. Friends and teammates can compete to see who is at the top of the leaderboard on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis and become top achievers on the app. This friendly competition leads everyone to push themselves, and in turn get better without even realizing they are practicing.
Keeping track of reps during a wallball routine has been to count every single one, and I think we’ve all experienced the “hmm, was I on 53 or 63…?” This focus on counting takes away from your ability to focus on specific technique. As one of my coaches once told me, “It isn’t practice that makes perfect, but perfect practice that makes perfect”, and you are unable to practice perfectly if you are spending part of your energy trying to count your reps.
The SPAITR NEURO counts your reps for you and transfers all the data via Bluetooth to your wireless device. This way you can put all your focus into your technique while practicing.
Additionally, with our wallball mode, players can set their wallball routine prior to their practice session and with real-time data transmission, the SPAITR app will count all your reps and tell you when to switch to your next item on your practice plan.
(For example, if I set my practice plan as 50 right-handed reps and then 50 left-handed reps, my NEURO would count 50 of my reps with my right hand, and then the app would notify me to switch to my left hand for another 50 reps.)
