When you’re the single coach in charge of 30 – 40 players at once, training drills that can be used in a multitude of ways and thus requiring just the initial set up of that drill, is a life saver. Between having players go out to drills, come back in, have a drink and “do...
USING DIGITAL VIDEO GAMES APPROACH TO JUNIOR SPORT
If you’re a parent of a child under the age of 18 then you know the addictiveness of video games in all their formats. On top of that us parents want our kids off video games but what we need to stop and think about even more is why they are so driven to them...
SKILL ACQUISITION TWITTER THREAD
Twitter has become my go-to social media platform these days and last week I stumbleed across a length thread on skill acqusition and what the biggest bang for your buck is in relation to it. Here are just some of the responses from varous coaches around the world from all different sports: Fail to learn...
ONE ON ONE FOOTBALL COACHING
In the last couple of weeks I’ve joined up as a coach on the One on One Football platform to provide private coaching to footballers of any age but 12 – 18yrs of age specifically. I believe most coaches do 1 on 1 sessions but I’m used to training small groups in my personal...
OFF-SEASON WOMENS FOOTBALL TRAINING PROGRAM
I put this together about a year ago for the women football players at my local club for some training to do before actual footy training started. It is split up into 3 parts: #1 – Robustness / Injury Prevention Using bodyweight exercises it has a focus on the lower body specifically to decrease the...
THE LEARNING PROCESS (ARTICLE + TRAINING DRILL)
Here are some notes from an article by Australian Sports Phyiso Greg Dea based here in Melbourne who has some excellent content that can be applied to most sports. This one specifically discusses the learning process and I’ve added a training drill based around this as well. Here they are: There’s a difference between performance...
THE 4 MOST IMPORTANT GAME PRINCIPLES
Below are probably the 4 most important game principles involved in any team sport, especially Aussie Rules Football. Every coach and every player needs to be familiar with each of these as it will then make things far easier when implementing your game model. They can also be used categorise different game moments which will...
PLAY WITH PURPOSE
Shane Pill is an Australian PE Teacher/Sport Coach who every coach should read up on in my opinion. Here are some notes taken from an article of his that I titled Play With Purpose in my notes but might have gone by a different name when he published as I can’t locate now! Being a...
1 STEP RELEASE KICK LAYERED DRILL
Kicking is a general skill. Being able to perform specific kicks is a specific skills. All game models at any level of footy will require the use of specific kicks to carry it out. This all stands to reason that if you need to use specific kicks for specific reasons (i.e. to fulfill your game...
FREE CONTENT DIRECTORY
Here’s a list of all FREE content you can find on the site: STRAIGHTENING UP KICKING (training drills) AEROBIC CAPACITY TEMPO RUNNING (training programs) MITCH ROBINSON ON HOW TO PLAY THE WING (training/coaching articles) THE TEENAGE BRAIN AND HOW YOU CAN COACH THEM (training/coaching articles) FOOTY FOCUS COURSE WEEK 1 (training programs) THE KICKING MECHANICS...