Aussie Rules Training

I’m not a major podcast listener but I had this on my agenda to get to at some stage and doing the lawns the last 2 days was the perfect opportunity to do so. Being a very older player (46) still playing senior/reserve grade football every Saturday and a senior coach for a women’s team...

So far we’ve covered the basics of stage 1, 2 and 3 in regards to cognition on footballers and now we double, even triple, down on detail so the future posts in this series  have the potential to be quite long! Stage 1 – Assessment of the Current Play Situation Visual Orientation and Attention Visual...

Stage 3 occurs after the action has been carried out and the player perceives the outcome which is directly coupled to the player’s intention for action and implies an assessment of its level of success The assessment activates the brain’s reward systems and makes the player either more or less likely to repeat the same...

I’ve somehow edited these clips in reverse order of the game but today we look at: The next to last play we’ve all seen already Luke Ryan getting drawn to the ball, not impacting at all, and leaving his direct opposition open behind him 85m Bice defensive run Freo having their own crack at a...

Stage 2 evaluates the current relevant response options in order to select/execute a particular action with response options being heavily narrowed down by the situation assessment from stage 1 which activates only a few responses in the player’s procedural long term memory Response options are simultaneously activated in specific neural populations within motor-related areas of...

As much as it pains me to say, the Hawks are awe-inspiring at the moment – winning in so many different ways it’s near-impossible to nail them down when have so many different game phases they can play through. I assume Geelong will keep Geelonging though to Easter Monday so I can’t wait to see...

2 – 3 times a year I come across a study that’s about 25 pages long that sucks me in and I have to read it word-for-word while I’m typing out notes from it which than cuts it down to about 10 pages and this study did just that (29 into 14 pages to be...

Here’s the 2nd part of my game analysis for round 1 where we look at: Collingwood hunting Port’s ball carrier Collingwood’s extra-aggressive kick out tactic Hawthorns fast v Essendon’s turtle-like transition Hawthorn’s kick out tactic again – wake up other teams! GWS’s attempt at similar kick out tactic...

Some up and down results from our first full round of football this weekend from the Tigers major upset on Thursday night all the way to the usual hot Gold Coast start before falling away late-season and plenty in between. My Swans are struggling a bit so far on wins and losses (o-2!) but could...