There are countless coaches and approach gurus that preach all works happens in field.

This is true to an extent. But if taken wrong risks that the student will turn to a brainless approach machine.

Infield work must be targeted and with intention of learning.

Now what is learning? If we are talking about Daygame, the skillset brakes down into the following Pillars:

  1. Volume

  2. Value

  3. Logistics

  4. Technique

  5. Inner Game

The trick is that Daygame is all or nothing. You need mastery of at least 4 to even start getting lays, ideally all 5 for consistency.

Two of those won't cut it, three won't cut it.

Broken down like this begs the question, when we are doing infield work, what are we really practicing?

Ironically, we are only practicing technique,... maybe Inner Game too. The others cannot be practiced infield.

So what gives, do coaches sell snake oil?

The answer is that infield work, unless done directly for results, it is about getting infield input to direct out of field work. That is the trick to growth.

Full article here: https://coffeedaygame.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/the-pillars-of-daygame/