Coaching education rewards one thing above everything else: spotting the error, fast. Ten years of that builds a reflex, and the reflex fires before you've finished looking.

So you see deviation from the model, and you miss everything the model doesn't cover. The second baseman watching the runner instead of the ball isn't on anyone's error list, which is exactly why nobody sees it.

It shows up in how you talk. Bad angle. Lazy hands. Not aggressive enough. Every one of those is a conclusion, and a player can't do anything with a conclusion.

Miksang is a contemplative training in perception, developed for photography and unreasonably well suited to a sports field. It's a discipline, not a philosophy, and it comes down to a few plain things.

Standing still without a task, which most coaches have never done on a field in their lives. Letting something arrive instead of hunting for it. Holding it long enough to find where it starts and where it stops. Then saying it in one sentence, before you've had time to build a story around it.

Describe before you evaluate. Most coaches can't do it on the first attempt, and noticing that is where the training begins.

What changes isn't your eyesight. It's the half second between seeing and concluding, and what you're able to hand a player once you've got that half second back.

Six months. Six to eight sessions with film work in between. It isn't a workshop, because a reflex built over ten years doesn't come apart in a day, and a single day produces enthusiasm and nothing else.

Sessions build in order of difficulty, starting away from anything you have a stake in and finishing with your own team in a live game.